Nervous Night (album)
Nervous Night is the second studio album by American rock band the Hooters, released in May 1985 by Columbia Records and on CBS Records in Europe. The album features two of the band's biggest and best-known hits, "And We Danced" and "Day by Day", as well as the minor hit, "All You Zombies", which was a rerecorded version of a single that had first been released in 1982. Background. In the summer of 1983, guitarist Eric Bazilian and keyboard player Rob Hyman were invited by their old college friend and bandmate from Baby Grand, Rick  Chertoff, to work on the debut album for a newly signed singer to Columbia Records named Cyndi Lauper. This resulted in The Hooters reforming after having broken up several months earlier. Eventually executives at Columbia Records, who were impressed by the over 100,000 copies that the band's independent album "Amore" had sold, as well as the local Philadelphia fan support (26 million entries in radio station WMMR's contest to win a Hooters show at a local high school) decided on July 26, 1984 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Philadelphia, to sign The Hooters to a multi-album  contract to the company. On July 13, 1985, The Hooters opened the Philadelphia segment of Live Aid, a concert event to raise funds to benefit Africa. This internationally televised event introduced the band to a global audience that subsequently translated to major commercial success. Their first major overseas tour came later that year when they played throughout Australia. Different versions of three songs on "Nervous Night" — "All You Zombies", "Hanging on a Heartbeat" and "Blood from a Stone" — were originally released on The Hooters' independent album release "Amore" in 1983. "Blood From a Stone" had also been recently covered by  Red Rockers and released as a single. Eric Bazilian told Songfacts that "Day by Day" "was a song that started as an experiment with Rick Chertoff." He added that it took them "2 years whipping it into shape." 1986 film. An award-winning film starring The Hooters and directed by John Jopson, "Nervous Night", was produced by Bell One Productions. "Nervous Night" was shot on 35mm film and intercuts two separate elements: a concert filmed at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia, and a series of short films, each one starring a different band member. Awards. "Nervous Night" achieved platinum  certification status around the world, selling in excess of 2 million copies in the United States. On September 5, 1986, The Hooters appeared on the 1986 MTV Video Music Awards, where they were nominated in the category of Best New Artist in a Video for "And We Danced". They performed two songs on the show, "And We Danced" and "Nervous Night". "Rolling Stone" named The Hooters the Best New Band of the Year for 1986. At "Billboard"'s 8th Annual Video Music Conference on November 22, 1986, the film "Nervous Night" won two awards: Best Concert Performance for the "Where  Do the Children Go" video and Best Long-Form Program. The Hooters also placed in five categories in "Billboard"s Top 100 of 1986: Track listing. Notes Personnel. The Hooters Additional musicians Production