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Posted on 08/07/2025 8:30:19 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
“Shadows of the Night” endured a difficult route to becoming a global hit single in 1982 – and Pat Benatar, who made it happen, endured her own challenges along the way.
The song was written by D.L. Byron specifically for the 1980 movie Times Square, but producers of the teenage runaway story felt it didn’t have hit potential, and rejected it. Subsequent versions were released in 1981 by German-based singer Helen Shneider and vocalist and actress Rachel Sweet, with modest results.
As Benatar worked on her fourth album Get Nervous, she and drummer Myron Grombacher decided to reshape “Shadows of the Night” into a track that suited their intentions.
…She recalled that she and Grombacher “rewrote many of the lyrics to make it work for me,” noting that they were never given writing credits for their efforts, a situation that “would not happen today.” With that battle won, the next took place over the accompanying video, at a time when the concept was just beginning to break through.
Benatar had done theater work in her youth, but her band were pure rock ’n’ roll guys. So when the idea of making a mini-movie based in World War II came up, she loved it and they didn’t.
…The story was pretty simple, though admittedly unexpected: a factory girl helping the World War II effort on the home front slips into a daydream about flying into Germany to kill a bunch of Nazis. An homage to [wartime propaganda character] Rosie the Riveter, there would be airplanes and a chase sequence, and some bad guys would die. It would be a four-minute action flick and I’d get to be the heroine.”
Despite her colleagues’ objections, she pushed through the wartime concept, and the video features up-and-coming actors Bill Paxton and Judge Reinhold.
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That was a fun video.. very 80s...
She's a good Polish girl!
They whisper…
Hobbit - Shadows of the Night - Pat Benatar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX—f33m3uQ
Buffy - We Belong - Pat Benatar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1bc0k2uqKU
Deep Space 9 - Hit Me with Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VypI_ZWWY3Y
People used to come to stay over in the NY apt or the MA house for one day to one week seminars in making music videos. DJ was a truly excellent student.
GUEST - Professionals - Too Long a Soldier - Pat Benatar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYZi0qEp-8k
Benatar was before my time, but I’m incredibly nostalgic! The recent film that revived my interest in the song was from Pamela Anderson’s final dance scene in “The Last Showgirl” (2024) - unfortunately it’s still heavily copyrighted and so the clip is not avail on Youtube.
It’s truly amazing how many things CAN’T be shown on YouTube. Normally, when you upload something like that, it warns you not to but there are no consequences for trying. Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, etc are whole categories that can’t be given permission.
But I am SO grateful to YouTube that they’ve done the work to make so much that would be copyrighted able to be used by giving away the advertising to the copyright owner. Any ads on my channel belong to the video and music owners and none go to me. Which is perfectly fine as I’m so grateful to be allowed to post derivative works at all as my own art.
My mother-in-law was a ‘Rosie the Riveter’!
One of the greatest pop/rock vocalists in history. Maybe only eclipsed by Ann Wilson.
My favorite Heart song though is sung by Nancy “These Dreams”
https://youtu.be/WkuyTX_KbGY?feature=shared
And one of my favorite Ann performances was HER *cover* of Led Zep’s “Stairway”
https://youtu.be/LFxOaDeJmXk?feature=shared
Nice! :)
Great song. The video was cute back when videos were neat little mini-movies, that often had no relationship to the lyrics of the song.
Loved the song and the video.
She went woke as well. Refuses to play Hit Me With Your Best Shot, cause she claims that it might make abuse victims upset.
Isn’t the song “Hell is for Children” about child abuse?
That’s a good song too. My friend had it on a playlist shared with me.
Don’t expect sense with woke? I saw the interview. She also said how much she hated being made a sex symbol by the record label and objectivization.
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