Dance the Night Away ( Van Halen song ) - Wikipedia Dance the Night Away ( Van Halen song ) `` Dance the Night Away '' Single by Van Halen from the album Van Halen II A-side `` Dance the Night Away '' B - side `` Outta Love Again '' Released 1979 Format 7 '' vinyl Recorded December 1978 -- January 1979 Genre Hard rock Length 3 : 07 Label Warner Bros. Songwriter ( s ) Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, David Lee Roth Producer ( s ) Ted Templeman Van Halen singles chronology `` Ai n't Talkin ' ' bout Love '' ( 1978 ) `` Dance the Night Away '' ( 1979 ) `` Beautiful Girls '' ( 1979 ) `` Ai n't Talkin ' ' bout Love '' ( 1978 ) `` Dance the Night Away '' ( 1979 ) `` Beautiful Girls '' ( 1979 ) `` Dance the Night Away '' was Van Halen 's first top 20 U.S. hit, peaking at # 15, and the second song from their 1979 album Van Halen II. While the rest of the songs from this album had existed in various forms since their days doing demos and playing clubs, this song was possibly the only song written during the recording sessions for the album. The band members conceived the song during the recording sessions while they were standing in a circle humming to each other. It was inspired by Fleetwood Mac 's `` Go Your Own Way ''. Eddie Van Halen purposely left a guitar solo out of the final version of the song, replacing it instead with a riff of tap harmonics. David Lee Roth originally wanted to call the song `` Dance Lolita Dance '', but Eddie Van Halen convinced him that `` Dance the Night Away '' was more suitable and the chorus was changed to reflect that. Roth claimed, during a 2006 performance in San Diego, California, that he wrote this song in tribute to an intoxicated woman who was having sex in the back of a truck and ran with her pants on backwards while escaping police officers into the bar where the fledgling band was playing. This was also mentioned at a 2006 performance in Detroit, Michigan. The song appears in the films Private Parts, Anchorman 2 : The Legend Continues, the science fiction film Mission to Mars, the Academy Award - winning 2012 film Argo, and in the closing credits of That 's My Boy. It was covered in 2010 by Pat Monahan on Santana 's album Guitar Heaven : The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time. In 2015, the song was covered and performed by Vocal Adrenaline, on the premiere episode, `` Loser Like Me '', of the sixth season of Glee. The song was not performed live during the Sammy Hagar era, but did get played during the Van Halen III Tour in 1998. It has been played live on every tour since the 2007 reunion with Roth, and a live version is included on the album Tokyo Dome Live in Concert. References Jump up ^ Tucker, Dan ( February 28, 2014 ). `` 13 Classic Hard Rock Songs That Will Make You Scream `` More Cowbell ! '' ``. VH1. Viacom. Retrieved August 1, 2016. Jump up ^ ClassicVanHalen.com - Van Halen II Jump up ^ Argo ( 2012 ) - Soundtrack.net External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Van Halen singles Van Halen `` You Really Got Me '' `` Runnin ' with the Devil '' `` Ai n't Talkin ' ' bout Love '' Van Halen II `` Dance the Night Away '' `` Beautiful Girls '' Women and Children First `` And the Cradle Will Rock... '' Fair Warning `` So This Is Love ? '' `` Unchained '' Diver Down `` ( Oh ) Pretty Woman '' `` Dancing in the Street '' `` Where Have All the Good Times Gone ! '' 1984 `` Jump '' `` I 'll Wait '' `` Panama '' `` Hot for Teacher '' 5150 `` Why Ca n't This Be Love '' `` Dreams '' `` Love Walks In '' OU812 `` When It 's Love '' `` Black and Blue '' `` Finish What Ya Started '' For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge `` Poundcake '' `` Runaround '' `` Top of the World '' `` Right Now '' Live : Right Here, Right Now `` Jump '' ( live ) `` Dreams '' ( live ) `` Wo n't Get Fooled Again '' ( live ) Balance `` Do n't Tell Me ( What Love Can Do ) '' `` Ca n't Stop Lovin ' You '' `` Amsterdam '' Twister soundtrack `` Humans Being '' Best Of -- Volume I `` Me Wise Magic '' `` Ca n't Get This Stuff No More '' Van Halen III `` Without You '' `` Fire in the Hole '' A Different Kind of Truth `` Tattoo '' `` She 's the Woman '' Covered by Santana This 1970s rock song - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dance_the_Night_Away_(Van_Halen_song)&oldid=795672611 '' Categories : 1979 singles Van Halen songs Music videos directed by Bruce Gowers Song recordings produced by Ted Templeman 1979 songs Songs written by Eddie Van Halen Songs written by Alex Van Halen Songs written by Michael Anthony ( musician ) Songs written by David Lee Roth Warner Bros. Records singles Songs about dancing 1970s rock song stubs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Italiano Português Edit links This page was last edited on 15 August 2017, at 19 : 15. About Wikipedia

Question: who wrote the song dance the night away
Answer: Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen, Michael Anthony, David Lee Roth