| Along Comes a Woman | |
| Cover: | Along Comes a Woman cover.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Chicago |
| Album: | Chicago 17 |
| B-Side: | "We Can Stop the Hurtin'"[1] |
| Released: | February 11, 1985[2] |
| Genre: | Pop rock |
| Length: | |
| Label: | Full Moon/Warner Bros. |
| Producer: | David Foster |
| Prev Title: | You're the Inspiration |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | 25 or 6 to 4 |
| Next Year: | 1986 |
"Along Comes a Woman" is a song written by Peter Cetera and Mark Goldenberg[5] for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago 17 (1984), with Cetera singing lead vocals. The fourth single released from that album,[6] it is the last Chicago single released with original singer/bassist Cetera, who left the band in the summer of 1985.[7] [8]
Upon its release in 1985, Billboard magazine highlighted the single in its "Singles: Pop: Picks" section, as a "new release with the greatest chart potential," and called it a "hard rocker."[4] At the end of the year, Billboard magazine music critic, Linda Moleski, listed the single among her top ten highlights of the year as, “An excellent funk-pop sound that’s reflective of 1985.”[9]
The original album version was 4:14 in length.[3] It was remixed to a more high-tech mid-80's sound for the single release which runs 3:47 in length.[4]
The music video, shot in black and white, combined themes from the films Raiders of the Lost Ark and Casablanca[10] [11] and featured Peter Cetera, the lead vocalist on the song, in the Indiana Jones/Rick Blaine-type role.[7] It was produced by Jon Small of Picture Vision, Inc., and was directed by Jay Dubin,[10] who also directed the syndicated TV series The Wombles in the 1980s.[12] [13] The video was released in 1985, during what some call the "golden era" of MTV.[14]
Additional personnel
"Along Comes a Woman" reached a peak of on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart[15] and on the Adult Contemporary chart.[16]