This is just off the top of my head, & I'd have to research it to confirm. Aside from April Wine & Starship, I think "Rock Myself To Sleep" may have had some kinda connection to Katrina & The Waves as well. It seems like one of those songs that multiple bands covered in the 80's.
Matt
· 4 weeks ago
Interesting - I too, only knew Rock Myself To Sleep from Starship - the Starship version was on Knee Deep In The Hoopla in 1985, and the April Wine version appears officially on their Walking Through Fire album which came out in 1986.
The track was written by Kimberly Rew and Vince De La Cruz, both from Katrina and the Waves - and knowing that (which I did not, prior to today), it makes total sense, because it sounds like a Katrina and the Waves song.
So if Fright Night was out in 1985, Starship and April Wine must have recorded this song around the same time.....and how pissed must they have been to discover that they had both recorded the same song? I always dug the Starship version, and the April Wine version is equally likable.
DiggityDawg
· 4 weeks ago
Nice to know the "top of my head" still works. Ha.
And then the Waves recorded the song for their "comeback" album in the late 80's, I think.
Big fan of the movie, BTW. I remember seeing it in the theatre, & a couple times on TV over the years. Very entertaining.
riverman
· 4 weeks ago
re: April Wine
When I was a child in the late 70s I went through an obsession with vampires. I was absolutely terrified by anything which I could remotely associate with them (the colour red, canine teeth.)
I have an early memory of being frightened by April Wine's "Tonight Is A Wonderful Time To Fall In Love." To my four year old mind, there seemed something "wrong" with that singer's voice- something impish, almost goblin-esque. And combined with the idea of "night" (when vampires come out to roam) the song freaked me out.
So I guess it's fitting that April Wine are on the FRIGHT NIGHT soundtrack.
Brutal Interlocutor
· 3 weeks ago
I applaud the public acceptance of your WIMPINESS
jamesballenger
· 3 weeks ago
Love this movie. It was one of those that you see the end of cable and then wait months to catch it again. I always forget about Amanda Bearse being in this, she is and always will be Marcy (Rhodes) Darcy.
Chris X
· 3 weeks ago
such a great movie. and the title track is on my Halloween DJ setlist every year.
Martin
· 3 weeks ago
I really liked this movie when I was a teenager, and the soundtrack too. "Armies of the Night" is the song that got me into Sparks (a dubious honor, maybe) and "Rock Myself To Sleep" is a sublime guilty pleasure. "Come to Me" still sounds like sinister, erotic teenage dreams to me - definitely a good thing.
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The track was written by Kimberly Rew and Vince De La Cruz, both from Katrina and the Waves - and knowing that (which I did not, prior to today), it makes total sense, because it sounds like a Katrina and the Waves song.
So if Fright Night was out in 1985, Starship and April Wine must have recorded this song around the same time.....and how pissed must they have been to discover that they had both recorded the same song? I always dug the Starship version, and the April Wine version is equally likable.
And then the Waves recorded the song for their "comeback" album in the late 80's, I think.
Big fan of the movie, BTW. I remember seeing it in the theatre, & a couple times on TV over the years. Very entertaining.
When I was a child in the late 70s I went through an obsession with vampires. I was absolutely terrified by anything which I could remotely associate with them (the colour red, canine teeth.)
I have an early memory of being frightened by April Wine's "Tonight Is A Wonderful Time To Fall In Love." To my four year old mind, there seemed something "wrong" with that singer's voice- something impish, almost goblin-esque. And combined with the idea of "night" (when vampires come out to roam) the song freaked me out.
So I guess it's fitting that April Wine are on the FRIGHT NIGHT soundtrack.