benny mardones - "into the night" 1980 version vs. 1989 version

1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aWhn0Hc8ps

1989
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bpOBAwrFVw

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. Love the middle-aged eyeroll after "leave her alone, they said". DUDE, YOU'RE OLDER THAN HER DAD.

yknow how ccr and the band came along at the end of the sixties and it was as if the beatles had never happened? basically same thing w/ benny and the 80s. it was as if the bourgeois tagg had never happened.

ilx comp v. five - this is not the music of l. ron hubbard, music maker (available to download)

http://www.theonion.com/articles/cop-grudgingly-admits-suspect-is-the-best-goddamn,28215/

anyway 1980 vers forevah

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/IMG-20110507-00094.jpg

haha omg

good lord was the followup titled 'it puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again'?

the girl from the 1980 version would be 48 now

i hope they're very happy together

"No, you can't date my daughter...wait, aren't you the guy we had to sign a thing for before you could move into the neighborhood?"

"And aren't you the same guy who came around 10 years ago asking about my older daughter?"

i really liked this song in 1989...i think somehow i thought the singer was singing it from a previous p.o.v. when he, too, had been sixteen years old?

i cannot stop laughing at that album title

Oh, the days when a Benny Mardones could become a star.

benny: portrait of a serial killer

lol

needless to say I now own that $1 copy of never run never hide

"And aren't you the same guy who came around 10 years ago asking about my older daughter?"

― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, May 18, 2012 12:34 AM Bookmark

seriously, the opening few seconds of this really rival "HEY! YOU! GET INTO MY CAR!" for unintentional super-creepiness on record.

lol @ benny rolling his eyes at dude who won't let him near his 16 yo daughter

― don't judge a book by its jpg (Edward III), Thursday, May 5, 2011 1:28 PM (1 year ago)

working in a record store during 1980, i recall benny mardones was one of those "hit" albums that NOBODY ever bought. and we were the square store in town, the go-to for gino vanelli and late-period chicago albums.

voting 1980 - thanks for the memories, ben

One of the grossest records ever recorded. In the last minute-long bellow he promises to take her into his mouth.

omg what the hell is this video

lol as if you werent already totally creeped out, yep of course it's a vest

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/04/article-1304521700119-0BE1652A00000578-546024_466x310.jpg

ew ew the climbing through the window and rolling out the carpet!!

tbh I never noticed there were two versions of this song, although I'd heard them both. The 1980 version has much cleaner production and is better.

Leave it alone, we said.

they still had rotary dial pay phones in 1980?

yup

must have taken a really long time to send a text message back then....

wow 1980 really was still the dark ages. Cell phones hadn't been invented yet, and you could have a hit record about child abduction....

Here's my number and a dime, call me anytime.

There are so many moments in that video that should be animated gifs.

some days it's a tough call whether this or "born to be alive" is my favorite video.

I just met you, and this is crazy, but you're just 16 years old, so call me maybe.

if i could fly
i'd pick you up
and take you into the night
viiiiiiideooooo gaaaaaaaaames

I LOVE singing this song at karaoke. One of my finest moments was on the day that R. Kelly was acquitted, and he got this gem dedicated to him by yours truly. I really wailed during the part at the end too.

One of my favorite parts is the falsetto "it's trooo-hooo" and also the nonsense wailing at the end obvs.

I've been singing the shit out of this since last night. It really is a lot of fun. Will karaoke it at earliest convenience and report back.

wtf that first video? is that his amish bandmate who answers the door? and then his eyeroll ahahaha

i like how his look eerily anticipated ariel pink's unisex schtick

I'LL
TAKE
YOU
ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAA

WHOO-OOOAH
WHOO-OOOAH
WHOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
if i could fly
i'd
1) pick you up
2) take you into the night
3) show you love

this song is so absurd that i just never ever get sick of it

I don't really understand why the ability to fly is a necessary prerequisite for him doing any of those things.

tbh the him being into a sixteen-year-old thing doesn't disturb me as much as his insistence that "i'll show you a love that you've never seen..."

similar serial killer intensity operative in "endless love", esp. if you are familiar with the film, which is actually super-disturbing

I don't really understand why the ability to fly is a necessary prerequisite for him doing any of those things.

he's just a pelican for her love

He has to pick her up from high school before he takes her into the night and shows her love. Due to school regulations prohibiting mulleted old men from loitering around campus, this requires airlift.

I don't really understand why the ability to fly is a necessary prerequisite for him doing any of those things.

It's easier to abduct teenagers that way?

i heard "endless love" while food-shopping the other day and i don't know if i've ever felt that uncomfortable before while browsing heads of lettuce

If I could fly
I'd pick you up
I'd take you back to my lair
And bathe in your blood

haha

How come when I do a gis for Mardones gifs I get pictures of Michael Fassbender?

Separated by fools who don't know what love is...yet

This song reminds me of when some stranger gets overly-chummy with you and starts going on about these damn minorities or something, like he just assumes you must be on his side, as any rational person would be. Forced into integration by fools who don't know what the bell curve is yet.

i know, this video has ruined the eyeroll as a viable non-ironic expression/gesture from here unto perpetuity

also very possibly sleeveless stripey shirts

and matching your socks with your would-be girlfriend's sweater

Incubated by ghouls who don't know what blood is...yet

His eyerolls are ALL TIME classics.

This thread is delivering hardcore on the crepey lols.

need "into the night" mashup w/ "skulls" by the misfits

This thread is like having a dream where nobody HAS A HEART.

It's like having it all, and watching it fall AAAAAPART.

It's like having a mall, guarded by PAAAAUL BLART

It's like having a date and driving a DAAAAAAAAART

It's like having a dream where somebody discovers the bodies in your crawlspace.

If I could fly
I'd pick you up
I'd take you back to my lair
And bathe in your blood

― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, May 18, 2012 12:27 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dying

i just listened to both versions alternating for like 15 minutes

i like how his look eerily anticipated ariel pink's unisex schtick

― dell (del), Friday, 18 May 2012 17:13 (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i was thinking this too, perfect example of that thing i said about random white dude pop on the altered zones thread ages ago

xpost i know, i can't stop. benny's magic rug has sucked me in. that carpet he flies on in the video is pretty amazing, too. ayo

if i'm honest (and wildly generalising) i feel this whole shitty subfusc undie machinery has denied us a kinda random white dude variety in pop music - like what would your peter gabriels or robert palmers or thomas dolbys or whatever be doing if they were 21 now yknow

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 22:22 (1 year ago) Bookmark

I was tempted to post my bullshit rap song that uses this as the main sample, however sanity + restraint won the day

Some of these comments are so funny, saying that the girl in the song is 16 and that he's too old for her, making him somekind of pervert...but, hello, more than half of the states in the US put the age of consent at 16, so he's not a predator or pedophile

HELLO

i mean DOY

so much goodwill from me to whoever gifs that eyeroll and his mugging during the separated by fools part

Why's Benny wearing a wedding band while dialing the rotary pay phone?

He doesn't know what love is yet.

There's NOTHING creepy about a 16 yr old getting with an aged rock dude with pink socks, jeez you guys.

There's nothing to compare it to.

btw the album closer and longest track is titled 'too young'

I don't think y'all are appreciating what a trailblazer benny was, he was out there smashing the artificial boundaries fathers put between their teenage daughters and 30yo musicians, fighting the good fight like a lover and a poet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8mS4B8OYrVI

I will buy copies for everyone.

Benny now has Parkinson's disease, but continues to hold it down on the live scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_7DxCham0k

so much goodwill from me to whoever gifs that eyeroll and his mugging during the separated by fools part

i'm so tempted but you just know it would end up being every other ilx post

Like that's a bad thing!

Why's Benny wearing a wedding band while dialing the rotary pay phone?

yeah, this elevates it from classic to ALL-TIME

I think around 2:14 when his tongue darts out of his mouth like a snake pretty much sums it all up for me

;_;

I secretly love this song and have been able to spend 30+ years pretending it's not the creepiest song ever

loling at girl sitting stiffly on the flying carpet like he just abducted Helen Keller
she doesn't even LOOK at him until they start making out

Due to the success of "Into the Night," Curb Records signed Mardones and he recorded "Into the Night '89." The track appeared on his self-titled release (known as the "Blue Album" by his fans.) Not long after that, Mardones appeared on a Showtime tribute to Roy Orbison, alongside such luminaries as Bob Dylan, John Fogerty, Johnny Cash and k.d. lang. Elvis Presley's band was the house band for the evening. When Mardones came on stage to sing "Running Scared," few people knew his name, but when he finished the song, he received a standing ovation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA3tFmnTULQ

The dad in the video sort of reminds me of strongo. Maybe it is the glasses.

I'm running scared from that mullet.

there's a couple of spots in that performance where he looks genuinely terrified

I secretly love this song and have been able to spend 30+ years pretending it's not the creepiest song ever

ha, this song was always brought up on the yacht rock ilm threads and I could never quite place it. i think it just blended so much into the background and i forever thought it was a journey song or something. he has some of that steve perry emotiveness in his vox

ok fuck – the "Running Scared" cover is not embarrassing. I was hoping it would be.

yeah, dude has a great voice

I always wanted Faith No More to cover "Into The Night" (because I have crush on Mike Patton and that would make the creepy part easier to take, lol)

And yeah Benny's Running Scared is awesome. I've heard it covered a lot and everyone goes for the big powerful build but Benny really nails the emotion.

Yeah, he really picked it up and took it into the night.

I secretly love this song and have been able to spend 30+ years pretending it's not the creepiest song ever

I not-so-secretly love this song despite the fact that it seems like a hastily rewritten paean to the consumption of teenaged flesh.

how dare you dis Benny on my ILX, Haircare!

OMG there is a third studio version of this song from 2002

"This record was initially recorded as the soundtrack to the documentary, Into the Night: The Benny Mardones Story, writes Benny Mardones, in his liner notes for A Journey Through Time

To those listeners outside of Syracuse New York, where Benny Mardones lives, he makes clear that he is, in his own words, "a superstar," playing to audiences of thousands on a regular basis. The fact that Benny Mardones has a documentary about his rise, fall, and comeback is a shocker. ( - Erlewine, AMG)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N1yEvXIyu4

Can not get this song out of my head now, thanks a lot you guys.

Benny Mardones is the new Chubby "The Twist"/"Let's Twist Again"/"The Twist (Yo, Twist!)" Checker.

In the third version, Mardones changed the lyrics to "'She's just sixty-four years old, put her in a home,' they said"

She's, like, 60 years old
Totally gross, I said

looool

You know I realize we keep quoting from the Wikipedia page but the slow burn tautology here:

The story behind "Into the Night" charting twice is this: In 1989, KZZP, a radio station in Arizona, ran a segment titled "Where Are They Now?" The most popular question was "Whatever happened to the guy who sang 'Into the Night'?" Scott Shannon, then program director for Pirate Radio in Los Angeles, added "Into the Night" to its playlist. Radio stations across the country followed suit and "Into the Night" was once again a hit.

Mardones was 33 years old when the song became a hit for the first time and he still lives quite well on the royalties received from this song that was also a hit in 1989.

BTW, the opening fifteen seconds of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM6Gox5Ynu8

I mean, the rest of it as well, of course. Especially when you hear the first use of the title.

modern english had the same thing happen down to the rerecording for new label like a year later w/ 'i melt w/ you', though there it didn't chart either time nearly as high as benny did both times w/ 'if i could fly'. i'm trying to think of other similar instances this has happened w/ us charts/radio, i'm sure in the uk where old songs rechart all the time it's not so rare.

The cowriter of "Into the Night" has his own rep:

Robert Tepper is an American singer, best known for his hit song "No Easy Way Out" from the Rocky IV motion picture soundtrack.

Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, Tepper moved to New York where he became a staff writer. He paired up with fellow singer Benny Mardones, and together they wrote Mardones' hit ballad "Into the Night," which earned them a Grammy Awards nomination.

In 1985, Tepper signed with Scotti Brothers and moved to Los Angeles. Actor/director Sylvester Stallone was taken with Tepper's song "No Easy Way Out," which subsequently led to its inclusion in the movie Rocky IV. "No Easy Way Out" climbed into the Top 40, reaching #22 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1986, and momentarily putting Tepper in the public eye. Several European labels, including Ministry of Sound, released "No Easy Way Out" with their own dance versions, and the hard rock group Bullet For My Valentine also recorded the song in 2008. In 1986, one year after "Rocky IV" another song from the album "no easy way out" called "angel of the city" became the main song of Stallone´s film "Cobra". With "Angel of the city" Tepper was not as successful as with "no easy way out"; the movie "Cobra" was not a hit. Tepper released two solo albums for Scotti Bros. Records but both albums received little promotion from the label. Also in 1986 he co-wrote the single "Le Bel Age" for Pat Benatar with peaked at #54 on the Billboard charts. He went on to join the classic hard rock group "Iron Butterfly" for a few years. His third solo album No Rest For The Wounded Heart was released exclusively in Europe in 1996 on the MTM Music label.

In 2009, Sony/BMG released his first two albums digitally.

In recent years he ventured into writing music for television and film, and collaborated on a musical. There are plans for his fourth solo album to be released in 2011.[dated info] The music will be a departure from the big rock sound of the 1980s and has been described as "acoustic, singer/songwriter with an electric tinge."

In 2012 he released his fourth solo album New Life Story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgohFX9VlJ8

Oh did I mention the Solid Gold appearance?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTRBueh2j6w

I was too young to open my legs the first time but this got, like, blanket airplay in the late spring and early summer of '89 on Miami's Y-100. The Gruesome Twosome used to be this and NKOTB's "I'll Be Loving You Forever," with which it and "Into The Night" share a, shall we say, constituency.

Well now I'm imagining Benny singing that to Donnie Wahlberg and thanks for nothing, Alfred.

He's just sixteen years old
Whatever the hell
Dude said.

boy my dog does NOT like 'she's so french'

le woof!

Your dog has the right damn idea.

My kid begged me to turn it off. She had a point. xp

she's just three years old
twenty one in
dog years

Another Tepper cowrite from Never Run Never Hide. Comparatively saner/duller, just.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9wFHO-1_G0

have you been listening to this album all afternoon? Brave man.

Hey, it beats Medicine.

It's that boring at work.

"Crazy Boy"! Cowritten by the "She's So French" cowriter:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oriuPKe-6T8

wow B+ from xgau

xpost -- That cowriter, BTW, ALSO has his own rep -- I give you D. L. Byron, aka David Leigh Byron, from his 1980 album This Day and Age:

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2936524-1323812317.jpeg

"Listen to the Heartbeat"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjzE0AANHJY

Okay you have to c/p the full review there.

Back to Benny -- "Hold Me Down" -- and quite the opening scream there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q98JJsnafYQ

man who originated this lou gramm/steve perry rock vocal style? paul rodgers?

Was wondering that. I've heard Rodgers be credited/blamed for it before so I think you're right. Before that...who was Free's lead vocalist?

And the next song on Benny's album was "American Bandstand" -- so no points in guessing where he ended up playing it once:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWtR1DaOedA

lol jk about xgau

paul rodgers was free's vocalist! i think

Ah well, that makes sense then, doesn't it! :-D

"Hey Baby"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWS9is-v8a0

"Hometown Girls"! Almost properly new wave there at the start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN4kql72WHg

And finally, yes, "Too Young"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDCuHYO1r8w

re "Hey Baby" -- that's not the Bruce Channel classic is it

Oh Jesus Christ, there's a FOURTH version of "Into the Night"...

ACOUSTIC!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZBbcrcRgMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZBbcrcRgMA

xpost - O FUCK YOU

I'm waiting for the dubstep version.

That "She's So French" intro is just BEGGING to be sampled.

btw spotify does have several benny albums, none of which are never run never hide.

"listen to the hearbeat" is one of the worst things i've ever heard

haha i am so glad i started this

i had visions of it being one of those sad little polls with six posts and two votes, but you came through, ilm. you came through.

pederasts and 80s mullets, bringing us together as always.

I have this habit of really babbling when I watch the lil one by myself...she was yelling because she wanted more bananas and I wasn't cutting them fast enough...I caught myself saying - outloud - ” Hold your horses there Benny Mardones”

you were a fool separating her from her banana

lmao i can't believe robert tepper starred in and directed the room under a pseudonym!

If this thread has achieved nothing else, I doubt that I'll ever again lump Benny Mardones in with the yacht rock crowd.

as Ned and strongo pointed otu, Mardones is closer to the Bad Company-Michael Bolton crowd anyway.

Yeah, this was never really apparent to me on the basis of the one creepy Mardones song I'd ever heard before this thread.

Richard Marx owes a lot to these dudes.

Richard Marx's mullet owes a lot to these dudes' mullets.

They paved the way for parties in the back.

Richard Marx was a pop guy; he worked for Lionel Richie and Madonna.

to think i genuinely used to like music

never thought i would be able to say "i hate ned raggett" but everything is different now

that d.l. byron song would sound right in place on one of the rhino american power pop compilations.

then they should be destroyed posthaste

this is what i love about ILM.... i come here looking to read up and chat about my cult-fave indie bands, only to find we're all exhuming the recorded legacy of Benny Mardones

i swear that "listen to the heartbeat" song was the Chevrolet jingle used for several years during the '80s. I can't decide which is worse....

that d.l. byron song would sound right in place on one of the rhino american power pop compilations.

or even better, this punk compilation

lest we forget

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG8-Ay6nIQA

Wonder if the "Good Girls Don't" cover has the "sitting on her face" line

btw this was the "listen to the heartbeat of america" chevrolet jingle:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MdrOVzvb7I

man, because this thread is so entertaining i have listened to "into the night" like five times today and i still couldn't tell you how it goes

AH'LL
TAKE
UU
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHAHHHHHHHHHH
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHUHHHHHHHHHHUHHHHHH

that d.l. byron song would sound right in place on one of the rhino american power pop compilations.

― get wolves (get bent), Friday, May 18, 2012 9:52 PM (46 minutes ago)

actually the only thing I knew DL byron for was an appearance on the times square soundtrack, he covers "you can't hurry love"!

(not on youtube)

looking good squashed between "babylon's burning" and "walk on the wild side" there DL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Square_%28soundtrack%29

modern english had the same thing happen down to the rerecording for new label like a year later w/ 'i melt w/ you', though there it didn't chart either time nearly as high as benny did both times w/ 'if i could fly'. i'm trying to think of other similar instances this has happened w/ us charts/radio

UB40 - "Red, Red Wine" (also because some DJ inexplicably started playing it years after it was first a hit)
Hall & Oates - "She's Gone"
Aerosmith - "Dream On"
Steve Winwood - "Valerie" (remixed but with no additional parts recorded)
4 Seasons - "December 1963 (Oh, What A Night)" (remix) - charted in 1976 and 1994
Lee Greenwood - "God Bless the USA" - top 20 country hit in 1984 and 2001, the latter after the terrorist attacks

There are several others that re-charted due to their prominent inclusion in popular movies (i.e. "Bohemian Rhapsody" from Wayne's World or "Unchained Melody" in Ghost), or immediately after the artist died.

Benny seems to hold the record for longest time between charting twice with the exact same record though, if you discount event-related revivals.

What about Sheriff's "When I'm With You"?

if i'm honest (and wildly generalising) i feel this whole shitty subfusc undie machinery has denied us a kinda random white dude variety in pop music - like what would your peter gabriels or robert palmers or thomas dolbys or whatever be doing if they were 21 now yknow

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 7 July 2010 22:22 (1 year ago) Bookmark

― r|t|c, Friday, May 18, 2012 12:51 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark

http://i.imgur.com/Rvzam.jpg http://i.imgur.com/H0YBr.jpg

okay, that's uncanny

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I finally realized yesterday that Benny Mardones reminds me of Gordana from Project Runway, loool

http://cbswnewhd.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/never-run.jpg?w=385&h=240

http://s3.vidimg.popscreen.com/original/4/eGlqZnpnMTI=_o_project-runway-tim-critiques-gordana-gehlhausen.jpg

or it's just me, shrug

Like some others here I always thought this was Steve Perry or some such - the "if i could fly, i'd pick you up" chorus is pure Journey, but the slightly jazzy piano and celeste licks were a tipoff that it had to be someone else, like maybe Lou Gramm guest-vocaled on a Brenda Russell track or something. Really didn't know, just one of those songs I heard on the radio that so blended into the background I never gave much thought to who it might be. I hope the next time i hear it on the piped-in music feed, I don't think "Yeaahhh!! Benny!"....

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

people have clearly spoken on this one

Thank you for this thread.

http://totalfratmove.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/reagan-mondale-1984-electoral-college-map.jpg

ilxor world karaoke song has been chosen

i have some practice in that dept

dying @ win butler as benny mardones' illegit love child btw

They say it fades if you let it.
Leave her alone? Forget it.

Win Butler (born April 14, 1980)
Benny Mardones originally released "Into the Night" in June 1980.

hmmm.

Maybe "She's So French" was him misunderstanding where Montreal was located.

I'd be willing to host "ILX Covers Benny Mardones"

Did Win Butler have a teen mom?

"Into the Night" remixed at the end of the world:

http://soundcloud.com/stpaulattheendoftheworld/when-it-is-time-please-god

I heard this at mini golf last night!

Ha ha that seems like the best possible place to hear this song

second only to honeymoon night with your child bride

Those are often the same thing

I never want to see anyone kiss ever again in the world after seeing him kiss that girl in the OG video.

why, you don't think that girl looked like she was like totally into him?

Wow @ this thread, serious candidate for the 2012 ILM gold medal. Listening to "She's so French" on repeat, it just keeps revealing new and horrible delights.

I'm waiting for the dubstep version.

― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Friday, May 18, 2012 7:09 PM (2 months ago)

your wish is ....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZfAjWroKp0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZfAjWroKp0

Usher's take- Amarillo Chop Shop's remix:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgxB331V2E4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgxB331V2E4

that was a remix of a remix btw, and much improved on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbyFY-7w-Vw

wau i seriously only just noticed that this song is about statutory rape

uh, great sound tho

ur-text for the 21st century

http://soundcloud.com/whatupsupertrog/why-worship-death

not sure how someone entered this descrip into wikipedia w/ a straight face or w/o commentary

Music video

Mardones made a music video for the song, but, as it pre-dated MTV by a year, it was not widely broadcast.

The video opens with Mardones walking down a street and approaching a house. The song plays over the video, and the lyrics serve as Mardones' monologue. He is met at the door by a bearded man who tells him, "She's just 16 years old. Leave her alone." Mardones leaves and walks around to the back of the house, peering through a window at a girl sitting sullenly in her room. The video then cuts to Mardones at a pay phone, speaking to the girl on the other end of the line and professing his love. The video then cuts again to Mardones returning to the girl's house, carrying a rolled-up carpet. He crawls through her bedroom window, unravels the magic carpet, and taking the girl's hand, they take flight into the night sky. The video closes with Mardones serenading the girl as they embrace, the scene finally fading to black as they kiss.

Mardones made a music video for the song, but, as it pre-dated MTV by a year, it was not widely broadcast.

so MTV didn't play the video when it recharted in 1989? C'mon guys, this is way better than "Thriller"!

maybe it wasn't widely broadcast because the MTV execs were busy giving themselves eye baths after watching it

bedridden for days with mysterious vomiting illnesses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=U3_UM8rcGe4

hahahaha he totally throws tepper under the bus

http://youtu.be/U3_UM8rcGe4

yknow how ccr and the band came along at the end of the sixties and it was as if the beatles had never happened? basically same thing w/ benny and the 80s. it was as if the bourgeois tagg had never happened.

this is a fucking beautiful post and people need to show love imo

like wtf there's now a FIFTH version

i'm speechless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esFvmO5OXyU

this was on at the laundromat yesterday (1980 version) and zero and the signified and i were karaokeing around the place like doofuses.

He must have seen the thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZtT8v0rkN8

deeply hoping this comes to fruition

i rocked the shit outta this at karaoke a couple weeks ago

alltime karaoke song, no doubt

Mardones needs to be told that the lyrics only get creepier every time he records a new version. 73-year-old Benny needs to walk away from cheerleader practice and get back to his mopping before the principal calls his parole officer.

"The song's just thirty-one years old..."

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YJvdVb-oEQ

a timeless holiday classic

just heard at the coffee shop

i lolled

ha! i heard this on the radio the other day and it was toward the end and i was disappointed.

for a while a local philly-area convenience store chain was playing this every other time i went in and now they never play it u_u

a local philly-area convenience store chain

say wawa. say it

Can't believe it took me so long to realize he's singing this from prison.

http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq313/doctorcasino/mardones_zpswxi9gbwy.png

show some respect

into the night (four tet remix)

If he was gonna milk a single song for his whole career, he could've at least mixed it up a little, a la Chubby Checker and 'The Twist'. 'Into The Night Again'. 'Macarena Into The Night'. 'Into The Judgment Night (feat. Grand Puba)'. '(Go) Into The Light (Fallen Heroes of 9/11)'.

Whoomp! (There It Goes, Into The Night)

has anyone ever covered this?

no-one big

this one is pretty bad
https://youtu.be/DqqM4u4ir-8

i kinda like this reggaed-out cover tho
https://youtu.be/oJrqDNBF1Yk

good revive. this is my favorite ilm thread

There's an alternate universe where Benny first rerecorded this song in 1984, with a gospel choir thrown on it, and it is that universe's "I Want To Know What Love Is."

Jam Dev 2 weeks ago
Not sure I follow the story of the vid. Think he's her dad, but his ex won't give him access unless he pays child support?

Ali Bee
Ali Bee 2 weeks ago
Who cares about the story... Enjoy the music!

We were wrong. There is something creepier than than the song "Into the Night." That thing: the original video for Benny Mardones' "Into the Night," featuring a goblin-faced Benny Mardones in a sleeveless striped t-shirt stalking a sixteen year old girl through a window, and then through a spectral statutory rape Tardis, and finally on a magic carpet that smells like Night Train and old cigarette smoke.

http://i.imgur.com/09bN1TK.png

http://i.imgur.com/xBcz9zm.png

Who cares about the story... Enjoy the music!

The only way this song can be enjoyed

i wish Mike Patton/Faith No More would cover this
it's so in their wheelhouse of cheesy covers

aaand I posted the same thing 4 yrs ago, lol

CMON PATTON, wtf

I'll say this: This is a rough song to have stuck in one's head for more than a day.

http://i.imgur.com/NWivCZb.jpg

a+

Cranking the Mardones rn

is that euphemism
have you broken any state laws y/n

hahaha no but i got home from the bar and saw this and listened to "into the night" get progressively worse with the 89, 2002, and finally acoustic versions

'Into the K-Hole (feat. Death in Vegas)' from the Spawn original motion picture soundtrack.

that doesn't make sense but at the same time it makes a lot of sense

Bump.

Just remembered this classic thread after Mr. Mardones came up on shuffle. Those screams in the fade are truly crazed, the sound of a desperate man being dragged away from a high school fence after going to all that trouble of cutting off his ankle monitor.

I get so mad now when I hear this song.

truly the grossest thing i have ever done is sing this song at a karaoke bar
complete with screams at the end
i am disgusting!

<3

wkiw

i had forgotten about this song. hearing it now returned me to the back of my mom's silver Honda Civic .

truly the grossest thing i have ever done is sing this song at a karaoke bar

o m g

Wish he woulda at least updated the ages when he kept remaking the song.

Soon he can just say "she's just sixty years old"

No, no, it was a different sixteen year old girl the second time, hence the re-release

At least this time around the sixteen year old girl in question is just an anime print on a body pillow. I guess that's progress?

Listening rn after an inexcusably long lapse. Happy to announce that it's lost none of its power to induce bone-deep creep-outs.

I could've sworn there was a lyric about Benny conveying this message by scrawling it in his own blood across the side of this poor girl's family house and being sent to jail when her father found him passed out in the yard the next morning, but perhaps it's just subtextual.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/9402923/benny-mardones-into-the-night-dead-73

Was just thinking about this guy.

Dad turns 71 this summer and sent me a photo of Johnny Cash from 2001. "This is what 71 looks like!"

Made me think of Rick Rubin calling up Benny Mardones, asking if he wanted the CASH treatment.

RUBIN: Got some ideas perfect for the first single: "Soma" by Smashing Pumpkins, um, song called "Harrowdown Hill" by Thom Yorke – he's the guy from Radiohead....

MARDONES: What about.... "Into the Night"?

She's just 16 years old
Leave her alone.
You're dead

RIP to an ILX creepy legend

Wonder if he'll die again in 2029?

Hahaha

Though the opening lines ("She's just 16 years old/ 'Leave her alone,' they said") made many listeners uncomfortable coming from the then-33-year-old Mardones, he would later explain the song was inspired by his platonic relationship with a teenage neighbor of his whose father had left her. (The first line was supposedly meant as a rejoinder to his co-writer, who got a little leery when meeting her for the first time.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3_UM8rcGe4

Elevated by Mardones' powerhouse vocal performance -- influenced by his love of both Pavarotti and Teddy Pendergrass

"Elevated by Mardones' powerhouse vocal performance -- influenced by his love of both Pavarotti and Teddy Pendergrass"

LOL

"I'm not creepy, I'm writing in character, maaaaan."

At the beginning of that video he looks like Christoper Walken in a wig.

And then when he walks around the corner to peer in her window, it reminds me of a scene from Mindhunter with the houses and circa-1980 cars in the background.

there's a 2002 version too btw

she's still 16 in that version

if I had written a song that sounded as good as “Into The Night” I’d record a hundred versions of it too

Benny Mardones - Into the Night vs. In 2 the Night by Tulip Sweet and Her Trail of Tears
https://youtu.be/610FDGsOxVE

it's a great vocal performance
it's a pretty great song
super creepy though

this makes zero fucking sense:

Though the opening lines ("She's just 16 years old/ 'Leave her alone,' they said") made many listeners uncomfortable coming from the then-33-year-old Mardones, he would later explain the song was inspired by his platonic relationship with a teenage neighbor of his whose father had left her. (The first line was supposedly meant as a rejoinder to his co-writer, who got a little leery when meeting her for the first time.)

it's like having a dream
where nobody has a heart
it's like having it all
and watching it fall apart

BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW

benny mardones: 'actually, it's ephebophilia'

Heard it at Trader Hoe’s today

Omg JOE’s
so embarrassed

Truly honest typo vvv sorry

Benny would appreciate it in spirit.

benny: portrait of a serial killer

― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, May 18, 2012

Saw this album in a thrift store yesterday. Had never heard anything by this guy other than his big gross hit, but the album opener's title, "She's So French", piqued my curiosity. The first ten seconds seem to sum up the lyrical themes and vocal stylings of Mr. Mardones. "You'd better/Give me/Some of your/Good loving/Right nooooooooooooowwww!!!!! [wailed with maximum gusto]". And besides the repeated assertion that She's So French, no other references to Frenchness appear.

https://i.ibb.co/cQfKc9R/2024-03-14-09-39-48.png

ironically, it was actually Mardones who said this to Robert Tepper IRL when the latter made an inappropriate remark about a 16-year old girl who he paid to walk his dog. he and all his apologists keep pointing to this to suggest it isn't a song about wanting to have sex w/ teenage girls, that it's a platonic love for someone he wants to take out of poverty...

...which would be maybe 35% believable if not for the chorus and the fuckin' music video, lol

[Hook]

"You'd better/Give me/Some of your/Good loving/Right nooooooooooooowwww!!!!! [wailed with maximum gusto]

Haha that was about my reaction way upthread when I listened to the album. It certainly makes a mark out of the gate, shall we say.

"If you don't gimme your love/Well, what?"

was just looking at mardones on wikipedia - his first album was produced by andrew loog oldham and features mick ronson on guitar and jerry shirley from uriah heep on drums!

and a restraining order on rhythm guitar

the creepiness of the song notwithstanding, I found a video of his last ever performance and his Parkinson's had gotten so bad by that point he was visibly shaking and barely able to hold the microphone. and he introduces "Into the Night" and asks the crowd to join him for what will be his last performance of the song ever. it was incredibly sad to watch.

'She's So (Good At) French(ing)'

he wants you to know

listening to the first Benny record (Thank God for Girls lol)

some wisdom:

"One lesson I've learned in life
you gotta butter your bread
before they let you use the knife"

so i'm wondering if he just smeared the butter on his bread with his hand?

lmao

oh my god this album sucks

guess he was one and (mar)done(s)

i tapped out halfway through "Susquehanna Lady"

The final curtain came down
On Johnny at thirty-five
Left a family of nine little kids
And a devastated wife

Damn Johnny

so i'm wondering if he just smeared the butter on his bread with his hand?

don't you?

mad at me because I can finally afford to provide my family with cutlery

lol

i tapped out halfway through "Susquehanna Lady"

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, March 14, 2024 12:55 PM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol, is susquehanna the least notable place to have its own lady