Monday, December 28, 2020

Musical Monday - All Night Long (All Night) by Lionel Richie


#1 on the Billboard Hot 100: November 12, 1983 through December 3, 1983.
#1 on the Cash Box Top 100: November 19, 1983 through December 3, 1983.
#1 on the U.K. Chart: Never.

If you asked me to name the most bland, boring, and unexciting "party" song of all time, I would unhesitatingly tell you it is All Night Long. The video tries desperately to make this song exciting, but the bright colored clothes and the forced smiles just highlight how utterly uninteresting this song is. When Richie sings "we're going to party, karamu, fiesta, forever", it sounds like someone's Dad running into a room full of teens, turning on all the lights, throwing on a Perry Cuomo record and saying "this is how we partied when I was young!". This entire song is a "hello, fellow kids" meme set to a soft rock beat.

Previous Musical Monday: Uptown Girl by Billy Joel
Subsequent Musical Monday: Only You by the Flying Pickets

Previous #1 on the Billboard Hot 100: Islands in the Stream by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
Subsequent #1 on the Billboard Hot 100: Say Say Say by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

Previous #1 on the Cash Box Top 100: Islands in the Stream by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton
Subsequent #1 on the Cash Box Top 100: Say Say Say by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson

List of #1 Singles from the Billboard Hot 100 for 1980-1989
List of #1 Singles from the Cash Box Top 100 for 1980-1989
List of #1 Singles on the U.K. Chart for 1980-1989

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