Lionel Richie: All Night Long (All Night) (1983) Online

Lionel Richie: All Night Long (All Night) (1983) Online

"All Night Long (All Night)" is a hit single by American singer-songwriter Lionel Richie from 1983. Taken from his second solo album, Can't Slow Down, it combined Richie's soulful Commodores style with Caribbean influences. An accompanying music video was produced by former Monkee and TV video pioneer Michael Nesmith and directed by Bob Rafelson.

Richie performed the song at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California.

U.S. military personnel told Richie that "All Night Long (All Night)" was playing in the nighttime streets of Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The song lyrics were written primarily in English, but Richie has admitted in at least one press interview that "African" lyrics in the song, such as "Tom bo li de say de moi ya," and "Jambo jumbo," were in fact made-up gibberish of his own invention.

The song has achieved massive popularity in the Arab World, in which Richie is well known as much as if not more than in his native U.S.

WWE wrestler Rich Swann used the song as his entrance in the independent circuit.

In the UK, the song was kept off the top spot by Billy Joel's "Uptown Girl", peaking at number two on the UK Singles Chart for three weeks.

The song was used in the 1998 movie The Wedding Singer during Julia Sullivan's (Drew Barrymore) engagement party.

Richard Marx contributed backing vocals as an unknown until his 1986 debut album appeared.

The song can be heard twice in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's eighth season episode "Charlie Kelly Rules the World".

The Independent has referred to Richie as "a phenomenon" over the past decade or so in nations such as Iraq, with "Hello" also achieving much success.

The song can be heard in The Simpsons' twenty-third season episode "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches".

In Luc Besson's sci-fi action film The Fifth Element (1997), Chris Tucker's character Ruby Rhod, a flamboyant, Prince-esque 23rd-century broadcaster, uses the first lines of the chorus in a scene.

A live performance of the song was used in season 1, episode 1 of Miami Vice titled "Pilot/Brother's Keeper" in 1984.

The online comedy duo, Rhett and Link, performed a karaoke version of "All Night Long (All Night)" continuously for 11 hours overnight in September 2012.

The song was used in The Cleveland Show episode, "Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance".

The song was used in the 2014 film While We're Young and featured on its soundtrack.

The song was used in 1984 Turkish film, Ortadirek Saban.

On 2 April 2015, the rapper Common used the song in his second performance on the Spike TV show Lip Sync Battle. Common also had a song called "All Night Long" from his 1997 album One Day It'll All Make Sense.

The song was used in the South Park episode, "Taming Strange," when the school's computer interface program fails.

It was used in an episode of Everybody Hates Chris.

Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) ranked 8, 1983.

Richie recorded a remix of the song with Australian singer-songwriter Guy Sebastian in 2011.

It debuted on the New Zealand Singles Chart at number twelve on 21 March 2011 and on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart at number twenty-six on 28 March 2011.

Germany (Official German Charts) peak position 2, 1983.

In July 2016, it was sampled by the Tanzanian singer Diamond Platnumz in his song "Kidogo" that uses the "party, karambo, fiesta, forever" bit changing it to "(she got me) dancing, party, fiesta, forever".

The re-recorded version was produced by RedOne and was released to iTunes Stores in Australia and New Zealand on 18 and 16 March respectively.

Parts of the song were used in "I Like It", a 2010 song composed by Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, and RedOne with samplings from Lionel Richie as 1983 classic is interpolated after the first and third choruses.

Netherlands (Single Top 100) peak position 1, 1983.

New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) reached #4, 1983.

The single features additional vocals by the Nigerian duo P-Square.

Norway (VG-lista) peak position 3, 1983.

Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) ranked 8, 1983.

2011 version (featuring Guy Sebastian) Australia (ARIA) reached #26, 2011.

2011 version (featuring Guy Sebastian) New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) peak position 12, 2011.

Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade) ranked 8, 1983.

US Billboard Hot 100 reached #1, 1983.

US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard) peak position 1, 1983.

UK Singles (The Official Charts Company) peak position 2, 1983.

US Adult Contemporary (Billboard) ranked 1, 1983.