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"Lonely Night (Angel Face)"
US single picture sleeve
Single by Captain & Tennille
from the album Song of Joy
B-side	"Smile for Me One More Time"
Released	January 1976
Recorded	1975
Length	3:16
Label	A&M
Songwriter(s)	Neil Sedaka
Producer(s)	Captain & Tennille
Captain & Tennille singles chronology
"The Way I Want to Touch You" (1975) "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" (1976) "Shop Around" (1976)

"Lonely Night (Angel Face)" is a song written by Neil Sedaka. The song was first recorded by Sedaka and appeared as a track on his 1975 studio album, The Hungry Years. The following year the song was made popular when covered by the pop music duo Captain & Tennille, who took their version to number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Background

In 1976, "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" was a hit single for Captain & Tennille, who had recorded another Sedaka song "Love Will Keep Us Together" a year earlier. Their version of "Lonely Night (Angel Face)" first hit the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on January 24, 1976, entering at number 69. It rose to number 3 on the Hot 100 and number 1 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart in March 1976. On the Cashbox chart, it also reached number 1. The song became a Gold record, and Sedaka's biggest hit as a lyricist (besides this and "That's When the Music Takes Me," Sedaka had generally only written the music to his songs, with Howard Greenfield—from whom Sedaka was estranged at the time—or Phil Cody writing the lyrics).

In Canada the song went to number 1 on the RPM National Top Singles Chart. It hit the pole position on April 17, 1976, and stayed atop the chart for two weeks before bowing out to "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen. It was their third of fourteen hit singles.

Reception

Billboard praised the "tight instrumentals."

Chart performance

See also

• List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1976 (U.S.)

References

1. "The Hot 100 – week of January 24, 1976". Billboard. Retrieved September 3, 2021.
2. Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 45.
3. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
4. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
5. "Top Single Picks" (PDF). Billboard. January 24, 1976. p. 78. Retrieved 2020-07-13.
6. ^ "National Top 100 Singles for 1976". Kent Music Report. December 27, 1976. Retrieved January 15, 2022 – via Imgur.
7. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1976-04-27. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
8. "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1976-03-13. Retrieved 2018-08-02.
9. "NZ Top 40 Singles Chart | The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Nztop40.co.nz. 1976-06-28. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
10. "Top Singles – Volume 26, No. 14 & 15, January 08 1977". RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Archived from the original on March 19, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
11. "Top 100 Hits of 1976/Top 100 Songs of 1976". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
12. "Top 100 Year End Charts: 1976". Cashbox Magazine. Retrieved 2016-06-05.
13. Top 50 Adult Contemporary Hits of 1976

External links

• Captain & Tennille - Lonely Night on YouTube

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