![]() ![]() We had most of the album recorded and we were close to mixing the record when he suggested this fateful 'one more song.' Cyndi and I sat at the piano one night and after the sessions we would just stay in the studio. It felt good to us, but for Rick, he's been known to say that on every album - you could always have 'One more song,' but in this case, he absolutely was right and in this case we delivered. "We had all the songs chosen, and quite simply the producer, Rick Chertoff, suggested to all of us that the album could use 'One more song.' We had 'Girls Just Want To Have Fun,' we had ' She Bop,' we had ' All Through The Night,' we had what would end up being really strong songs. "With 'Time After Time,' we wrote that very quickly," he added. She worked with us in our rehearsal studio and did a bunch of demos, so it was really a tryout period - we also tried out some drummers and bass players, but it ended up being Eric and myself doing most of the guitars and keyboards, and Rick producing. She came down to Philadelphia and was staying with a friend. One thing led to another - she saw our band, we got a chance to hear one of her demos. She was definitely different and striking and creative. Hyman told Songfacts about their first meeting: "We talked and right from the jump she was so unusual. Chertoff had been in a Philadelphia band with Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, who had since formed The Hooters, so he brought Lauper to a Hooters show at the Greenwich Village nightclub The Bottom Line so she could check them out. She landed a deal with Portrait Records as a solo act and was teamed with staff producer Rick Chertoff, who helped her find musicians to work on her debut album, She's So Unusual. Lauper had a band called Blue Angel that broke up in the early '80s after releasing one album. We had 'Time After Time,' we just had to get the words that would surround it." ![]() We wrote a little bridge section and I think the last thing we really wrote was the chorus. I think Cyndi came in and really started the lyric flow, then all of the sudden we realized it wasn't such a bouncy song, but it was a little more bittersweet and a little deeper in its feeling and a little more poignant, so the music started to change. The mood of the lyrics came from both of us. Then we started to realize we were on to something. The verses are just a little repeating three-note motif - almost like a nursery rhyme, a very simple song. We started getting off on that chorus, then the verse melodies started to appear. It almost had like a reggae feel, it was a little bouncier and a little more upbeat. Hyman explained: "I was sitting at the piano and just started banging out what would eventually be the chorus, hook, and the way we sing it. Once the title was in place, they set about writing the song. Rob Hyman told Songfacts: "When she saw Time After Time, something clicked. Wells follows him into the future and goes on a quest to stop him from killing. Wells, whose time machine is stolen by Jack The Ripper, who uses it to travel from 1893 to 1979. Time After Time is the name of a 1979 science fiction movie starring Malcolm McDowell as H.G. She came up with the title when she saw it in the magazine TV Guide. Cyndi Lauper wrote this highly emotional song with Rob Hyman of The Hooters, who also sang backup on the track.
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