{"id":21250,"date":"2020-09-27T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=21250"},"modified":"2020-09-27T06:20:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T13:20:59","slug":"cover-me-co-ro-and-taleesa-because-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/27\/cover-me-co-ro-and-taleesa-because-the-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Me, CO.RO. and Taleesa: Because the Night"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this year, I introduced a Cover Me<\/em> entry with the question: Who had the highest charting success with Bruce Springsteen and Patti Smith’s “Because the Night?”<\/em><\/p>\n

The answer was the subject of that entry<\/a>: 10,000 Maniacs. But I included a parenthetical qualifier: “in the U.S., at least.”<\/p>\n

Because even though 10,000 Maniacs took the song all the way to #11 in the U.S. in 1993 (compared to Patti Smith, who only reached #13 in 1978), there’s another version of “Because the Night” that became a global smash hit that very same year.<\/p>\n

In 1992, an Italian Eurodance trio called CO.RO. teamed up with vocalist Emanuela Gubinelli (a.k.a. Taleesa) and took “Because the Night” all the way to the Top Ten–not just in Italy (where it hit #7), but also Greece (#8), Belgium (#7), France (#6), and all the way to #1 in Spain.<\/p>\n

Their version of “Because the Night” was more than a cover–it was also a mash-up, prominently sampling Depeche Mode’s “Master and Servant,” making for one of the most unlikely Springsteen pairings ever.<\/p>\n