Nights Are Forever (song)

"Nights Are Forever"
"Nights Are Forever"
Single by Jennifer Warnes
from the album Twilight Zone: The Movie
B-side	"Kick the Can" (Jerry Goldsmith)
Released	June 1983
Genre	Soft rock;
Length	3:39;
Label	Warner Bros.
Composer(s)	Jerry Goldsmith
Lyricist(s)	John Bettis
Producer(s)	Bruce Botnick; James Newton Howard;
Jennifer Warnes singles chronology

"Nights Are Forever" is a song written by composer Jerry Goldsmith and lyricist John Bettis that was produced by James Newton Howard and performed by Jennifer Warnes for the 1983 anthology film Twilight Zone: The Movie.^[2] The single became the follow-up to her duet with Joe Cocker, "Up Where We Belong". "Nights Are Forever" is heard very briefly during the jukebox scene in the segment of the film that was written and directed by John Landis and starred Vic Morrow.

Critical reception

"Nights Are Forever" received praise twice from Billboard magazine. In their review of the single, the editors described it as "a simple, light-rock love song that shows off the clear purity of Warnes' voice and the deft production skills of Botnick and Howard."^[1] In their review of the soundtrack of Twilight Zone: The Movie, they called it "excellent".^[3]

Release and commercial performance

The song began its 4 weeks "bubbling under" the Billboard Hot 100 in the issue dated July 2 of that year and peaked at 105.^[4] The July 23 issue marked its first appearance on the magazine's list of the 50 most popular Adult Contemporary songs in the U.S., where it got as high as number 8 over the course of its 16 weeks there.^[5]

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes for the original Twilight Zone: The Movie soundtrack album:^[6]

Jennifer Warnes – vocals
Bruce Botnick – recorded by, producer
James Newton Howard – arranger, producer
Rik Pekkonen – mixdown engineer
Wendy Waldman – backing vocals
Joseph Williams – backing vocals

Charts

Chart performance for "Nights Are Forever"
Chart (1983)	Peak position
US Adult Contemporary (Billboard)^[5]	8
US Bubbling Under the Hot 100 (Billboard)^[4]	105

References

^ ^a ^b "Billboard's Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 25. June 25, 1983. p. 65. ISSN 0006-2510. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 30, 2022.
^ Heine, Erik (2016). James Newton Howard's Signs: A Film Score Guide. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4422-5604-0.
^ "Billboard's Top Album Picks" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 26. July 2, 1983. p. 59. ISSN 0006-2510. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 30, 2022.
^ ^a ^b Whitburn 2009, p. 1041
^ ^a ^b Whitburn 2007, p. 290.
^ Twilight Zone: The Movie (CD booklet). Jerry Goldsmith. Los Angeles: Film Score Monthly. 2009. Vol. 12, No. 7.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

Bibliography

Whitburn, Joel (2007), Joel Whitburn Presents Billboard Top Adult Songs, 1961–2006, Record Research, ISBN 978-0898201697
Whitburn, Joel (2009), Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles, 1955–2008, Record Research, ISBN 978-0898201802

External links

Twilight Zone: The Movie, Original Soundtrack at AllMusic

[review-1] "Billboard's Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 25. June 25, 1983. p. 65. ISSN 0006-2510. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 30, 2022.

[2] Heine, Erik (2016). James Newton Howard's Signs: A Film Score Guide. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 6. ISBN 978-1-4422-5604-0.

[3] "Billboard's Top Album Picks" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 95, no. 26. July 2, 1983. p. 59. ISSN 0006-2510. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 30, 2022.

[hot-4] Whitburn 2009, p. 1041

[adult-5] Whitburn 2007, p. 290.

[6] Twilight Zone: The Movie (CD booklet). Jerry Goldsmith. Los Angeles: Film Score Monthly. 2009. Vol. 12, No. 7.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)

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v t e Jennifer Warnes
Studio albums	Jennifer Jennifer Warnes Shot Through the Heart Famous Blue Raincoat The Hunter The Well
Compilations	Best of Jennifer Warnes Love Lifts Us Up: A Collection 1968–83
Singles	"Easy to Be Hard" "Right Time of the Night" "I Know a Heartache When I See One" "Don't Make Me Over" "It Goes Like It Goes" "Up Where We Belong" "All the Right Moves" "First We Take Manhattan" "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" "Nights Are Forever"