Song Lyric Sunday was created by Helen Vahdati from This Thing Called Life One Word at a Time and author Jim Adams from A Unique Title For Me is our current guest host. For complete rules or to join in the fun, click here.
The theme for Song Lyric Sunday this week is “Alone/Confined/Depressed/Isolated/Restless/Solo.”
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Boomers are old enough to remember some of the heyday of Dionne Warwick, and to have witnessed her comeback which included No Night So Long, the title track from Warwick’s second album for Arista Records in 1980.
While it doesn’t speak directly to this week’s prompt, this song keeps me connected to a lifelong friend who was considering suicide during a low point in her life when she felt abandoned. We traded mix-tapes over the years and now share playlists, and No Night So Long is always on the list. We’ve both lost our parents and are widows, but this song reminds us though it’s dark and you have traveled far, every long night gives you one bright shining star.
FUN FACT:
- No Night So Long peaked at number twenty-three on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent three weeks at number one on the adult contemporary chart. It was Warwick’s third number one on the AC chart.
- Richard Kerr and Will Jennings also wrote Warwick’s 1979 comeback hit I’ll Never Love This Way Again which won her the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance.
The video is a live appearance from The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson.
Enjoy!
See my Song Lyric Sunday selection for Nesie’s Place!
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No Night So Long
Remember how we faced the world, like two tramps shining.
Please, don’t let that magic ever end.
Don’t forget what we learned living on the wind.
No night so long that you can’t find the day;
No day so wrong that you can’t find your way;
Call on me like you used to do,
I still can show you who you are.
That day the long and dusty road had us both crying,
We used up our last joke just to try to smile a again.
And only now I find I know what we were learning,
Though it’s dark and you have traveled far.
Every long night gives you one bright shining star.
No night so long that you can’t find the day;
No day so wrong that you can’t find your way;
Call on me like you used to do,
I can still show you who you are.
Deep in the night you know that you’ll find,
Deep in the night you know that you’ll find the way.
No night so long that you can’t find the day;
No day so wrong that you can’t find your way;
Call on me like you used to do,
I still can show you who you are.
No night so long that you can’t find the day;
No day so wrong that you can’t find your way.
Felicia Denise, Author 
It was nice to hear this song again. It is nice to have a special friend that you can call and share your old memories with.
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Thanks for stopping by, Jim!
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❤
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Her voice is so powerful. Did you see her on “The Masked Singer”? She was the mouse and shouldn’t have gone home as early as she did. We watch every week and play the game with my sister in Texas, my daughter here in Jacksonville and my daughter in Tampa. It’s a great way to play family games in this world of social distancing. Thanks for sharing this one! 🙂
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As much as I love music, I’ve just never gotten into the music shows, but can’t see how anyone could send Dionne Warwick home…dressed as a mouse or not! 😄
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We guessed her the week before she went home. They disguise their voice and give clues about their identity. The judges figured it out too.
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Dionne Warwick is a tremendous singer.
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Dionne Warwick is such a legend and I love her music. Thanks for sharing a great one!
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Glad you enjoyed the song. She is one of the all-time greats. 🙂
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