The Night's Too Long

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"The Night's Too Long"
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Single by Patty Loveless
from the album On Down the Line
B-side"Overtime"
ReleasedSeptember 23, 1990
Recorded1990
GenreCountry
Length3:10
LabelMCA Nashville
Songwriter(s)Lucinda Williams
Producer(s)Tony Brown
Patty Loveless singles chronology
"On Down The Line"
(1989) 		"The Night's Too Long"
(1990) 		"I'm That Kind of Girl"
(1991)
Music video
"The Night's Too Long"

"The Night's Too Long" is a song written by Lucinda Williams, and originally recorded by her 1988 self-titled album. It was recorded by American country music artist Patty Loveless. It was released in September 1990 as the second single from her album On Down the Line.

Content[]

The song is about a restless young woman decides to move from her small town to the big city, where she can take in the nightlife and meet the man of her dreams. The first part of the song has her sacrificing to set up her move, which takes place in the second half of the song. Her new office job (in the song's third verse) takes a back seat to her going out to the bars, where she dances and eventually consummates a relationship with the man she had been looking for.

Critical reception[]

Lisa Smith and Cyndi Hoelzle described the song favorably in Gavin Report, where they wrote that "Patty plaintively sings the story of a woman trying to break out of her small -town life."[1]

Chart performance[]

The song charted for 19 weeks on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, reaching number 20 during the week of December 8, 1990.[2]

Chart (1990) Peak
position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[3] 6
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)[4] 20

References[]

  1. ^ Smith, Lisa; Cyndi Hoelzle (August 31, 1990). "New Releases" (PDF). Gavin Report: 24.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 206.
  3. ^ "Top RPM Country Tracks: Issue 1415." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. January 19, 1991. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
  4. ^ "Patty Loveless Chart History (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
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