How Cyndi Lauper crafted ‘Time After Time’ in studio years before farewell tour: ‘What you’re hearing is almost first-take’
nypost.comCyndi Lauper was done — or so she thought — with her classic 1983 debut album “She’s So Unusual,” but something was missing to producer Rick Chertoff.“Rick came in one day and said, ‘We could use one more song,’” Rob Hyman, who played keyboards on the LP, told The Post. “And I felt like, ‘One more song??
You gotta be kidding!’ We were really spent.”But after months of working tirelessly on the album that would turn the singer into a pop superstar, Hyman and Lauper came up with “Time After Time,” the bittersweet ballad that would become her first No.
1 hit 40 years ago — proving that this girl was as much about feels as fun.“People tended to think, ‘Oh, she’s just kind of this fun pop singer,’ and she had such a unique voice with all the vocal ad libs and sounds she was putting on ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun,’ ” said Hyman. “And then you hear her sing something like ‘Time After Time,’ which is heartbreaking.”Indeed, the second single off of “She’s So Unusual” would prove that the success of “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” was no fluke — and that Lauper was an artist to be taken seriously.
It cemented the groundwork for a legendary career that will see the New York native bring her “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” farewell tour to hometown arena Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night.
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