Single:
Total Eclipse of the Heart entered the Australian singles chart* on 2 May 1983 and peaked at #1. The song was #5 on the Top 100 of 1983.
Album:
The song is on Faster Than the Speed of Night which entered the Australian albums chart* on 30 May 1983 and peaked at #3.
Songwriter:
Jim Steinman
Producer:
Jim Steinman
Record label of Australian release:
CBS
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia:
Total Eclipse of the Heart is the lead single by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler from her fifth studio album, Faster Than the Speed of Night (1983) written and produced by Jim Steinman.
After her contract with RCA Records ended in 1981, Tyler found a new manager in David Aspden. After seeing Meat Loaf perform Bat Out of Hell live on The Old Grey Whistle Test, she approached Meat Loaf’s writer, Jim Steinman, and asked him to be her producer.
The lyric “Turn around, bright eyes” had originally appeared in Steinman’s 1969 college musical The Dream Engine. Steinman had originally written the song’s verse melody for his score to the 1980 film A Small Circle of Friends.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Eclipse_of_the_Heart
Lyrics:
Every now and then
I get a little bit lonely
And you’re never coming ’round
Every now and then
I get a little bit tired
Of listening to the sound of my tears
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