All Night Long (All Night)

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## Song information

### Genre

* Reggae
* calypso
* pop

### Length

* 4:20 (single edit)
* 6:25 (album version)

### Producer(s)

* Lionel Richie
* James Anthony Carmichael

## General information

"**All Night Long (All Night)**" is a hit single by American singer Lionel Richie from 1983. Taken from his second solo album, *Can't Slow Down* (1983), it combined Richie's soulful Commodores style with Caribbean influences. This new, more dance music, pop-inspired approach proved popular, as the single reached number one on three *Billboard* charts (pop, R&B and adult contemporary). In the UK, it peaked at number two on the singles chart.

The song lyrics were written primarily in English, but Richie has admitted in at least one press interview that "African" lyrics in the song, such as "Tom bo li de say de moi ya" and "Jambo jumbo", were in fact his sui generis dialects. Richie has described these portions of the song as a "wonderful joke", written when he discovered that he lacked the time to hire a translator to contribute the foreign-language lyrics he wished to include in the song.

## Music video

An accompanying music video was produced by former Monkee and TV video pioneer Michael Nesmith and directed by Bob Rafelson.

## Notable uses

Richie performed the song at the closing ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

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## Personnel

Personnel as listed in the album's liner notes are:

* Lionel Richie – lead vocals, producer, vocal arrangements, rhythm arrangements, backing vocals, Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, chant vocals
* Greg Phillinganes – Yamaha GS1 synthesizer, gibberish vocals
* Darryl Jones – guitar, gibberish vocals
* Carlos Rios– guitar, gibberish vocals
* Tim May – guitar
* Abraham Laboriel – bass guitar
* John "J.R." Robinson – drums
* Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
* Melinda Chatman – vocal sound effects, chant vocals, gibberish vocals
* David Cochrane – background vocals, chant vocals
* Calvin Harris – backing vocals, chant vocals
* Richard Marx – backing vocals, chant vocals
* Deborah Thomas – backing vocals, chant vocals
* Kin Vassy – backing vocals
* Diane Burt – chant vocals
* Dr. Lloyd Byro Greig – chant vocals
* Brenda Harvey-Richie – chant vocals
* Jeanette Hawes – chant vocals
* Janice Marie Johnson – chant vocals
* Deborah Joyce Richie – chant vocals
* Suzanne Stanford – chant vocals and gibberish vocals
* Marilyn Ammons – gibberish vocals
* Sue Ann Butler – gibberish vocals
* Sheldon J. Cohn, Esq. – gibberish vocals
* Sandy Dent-Crimmel – gibberish vocals
* Ruth Diaz – gibberish vocals
* Sylvia Genauer – gibberish vocals
* Rejauna Lynn Green – gibberish vocals
* Gabrielle Greig – gibberish vocals
* Sally Greig – gibberish vocals
* Tanya Greig – gibberish vocals
* David Malvin – gibberish vocals
* Alison Maxwell – gibberish vocals
* Jerry Montes – gibberish vocals
* John Michael Montes – gibberish vocals
* Billy "Bass" Nelson – gibberish vocals
* Randy Stern – gibberish vocals
* Wilbert Terrell – gibberish vocals
* Susan Wood – gibberish vocals

Production
* James Anthony Carmichael – producer, chant vocals
* Steve Crimmel – second recording engineer
* David Egerton – second recording engineer, gibberish vocals
* Mark Ettel – second recording engineer

## Song information

### Cover

All Night Long Lionel Ritchie and Guy Sebastian.jpg

## General information

Richie recorded a new version of the song with Australian singer Guy Sebastian in 2011. All proceeds went towards the Queensland floods and New Zealand earthquake appeal. The re-recorded version was produced by RedOne and was released to iTunes Stores in Australia and New Zealand on 18 and 16 March, respectively.

### Charts

It debuted on the New Zealand Singles Chart at number twelve on 21 March 2011 and on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart at number twenty-six on 28 March 2011.

 New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ) | 12

## Jacob Collier version

In 2018, English singer, arranger, composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier collaborated with Take 6 and the Metropole Orkest on a version of "All Night Long". Collier's arrangement won the 2020 Grammy Award for *Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals*. The version was included on Collier's studio album, *Djesse Vol. 1* (2018). The album peaked at number six on the Billboard Top Classical Albums and Top Jazz Albums.

## General information

In 2019, Swedish singer Benjamin Ingrosso recorded a version at the Spotify studios, Stockholm. It was released in March 2019 and peaked at number 5 on the Swedish charts and was certified platinum in June 2019. The rearranged version of the song, titled as "All Night Long (All Night) [2020 Edit]" was released on 17 July 2020.

### Certifications

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## Samplings

Parts of the song were used in "I Like It", a 2010 song composed by Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, and RedOne with samplings from Lionel Richie as the 1983 classic is interpolated after the first and third choruses. The release was a big hit for Enrique Iglesias featuring Pitbull. The song was also included in Iglesias's 2010 album *Euphoria*.**Script error: No such module "Unsubst".**

The Tanzanian singer Diamond Platnumz samples part of the song in his 2016 hit single "Kidogo" that features Nigerian duo P-Square.**Script error: No such module "Unsubst".**

## See also

* List of Hot 100 number-one singles of 1983 (U.S.)
* List of number-one R&B singles of 1983 (U.S.)
* List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1983 (U.S.)

## References

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## External links

* List of cover versions of "All Night Long (All Night)" at SecondHandSongs.com

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