My First Night Without You

"My First Night Without You" is the second single released from Cyndi Lauper's third album A Night To Remember (1989).

"My First Night Without You"
Single by Cyndi Lauper
from the album A Night To Remember
B-side	"Unabbreviated Love"
Released	July 24, 1989
Recorded	1989
Genre	Pop
Length	3:03
Label	Epic Records
Songwriter(s)	Cyndi Lauper Billy Steinberg Tom Kelly
Producer(s)	Cyndi Lauper Lennie Petze
Cyndi Lauper singles chronology
"I Drove All Night" (1989) "My First Night Without You" (1989) "Heading West" (1989)
Music video
"My First Night Without You" on YouTube

Song information

The ballad is about coming home for the first time without a partner being there after a break up. The video clip is also about this, with Lauper coming home after a long day at work to an empty room after a separation. The song was written by Lauper, Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg. The latter two also wrote "True Colors" and "I Drove All Night".

Its B-side was "Unabbreviated Love". The song is a fan favorite; Lauper performed it many times on her A Night to Remember tour in 1989.^{[citation needed]}

To promote the single, promotional posters were sent to different malls and music stores that sold the single when it was originally released.

The single failed to make a big impact on most global charts. It did do moderately well in Chile however. And also, it achieved #1 in the Radio Cidade from São Paulo, Brazil. In Colombia, the single was #1 for 10 weeks.^{[citation needed]}

Music video

The video for "My First Night Without You", released in 1989, was one of the first to be closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.^[1]

Chart performance

Chart (1989)	Peak position
Australian ARIA Singles Chart^[2]	47
Belgium (Ultratop Wallonia)^[3]	47
Chilean Singles Chart^[4]	12
French Singles Chart^[5]	46
UK Singles Chart^[6]	53
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[7]	62
Cash Box Top 100 Singles	55

Track listing

7" / Cassette / Europe 3" CD single / Japan 3" CD single "My First Night Without You" (edited remix) – 2:58 "Unabbreviated Love" – 4:18 UK Limited Edition 7" (with poster) "My First Night Without You" (edited remix) – 2:58 "True Colors" – 3:47 12" / Europe 5" CD maxi-single "My First Night Without You" (edited remix) – 2:58 "Unabbreviated Love" – 4:18 "True Colors" – 3:46

UK 12" / UK 5" CD single "My First Night Without You" (edited remix) – 2:58 "Unabbreviated Love" – 4:18 "True Colors" – 3:47 "All Through the Night" – 4:32 UK Limited Edition Picture Disc CD single "My First Night Without You" (edited remix) – 2:58 "Unabbreviated Love" – 4:18 "Iko Iko" – 2:05 "When You Were Mine" – 5:01

References

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7. . Billboard. Archived from the original on 2015-09-21. Retrieved 2015-05-10.