TENDER IS THE NIGHT
JACKSON BROWNE
SONGWRITERS: DANNY
KORTCHMAR; JACKSON BROWNE & RUSS KUNKEL
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: LAWYERS IN LOVE
LABEL: ASYLUM RECORDS
GENRE: SOFT ROCK
YEAR: 1983
Clyde Jackson Browne (born October 9, 1948)
is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 18 million
albums in the United States.
Emerging as a precocious teenage songwriter
in mid-1960s Los Angeles, he had his first successes writing songs for others,
writing "These Days"
as a 16-year-old; the song became a minor hit for the German singer and Andy Warhol protégé Nico in 1967. He
also wrote several songs for fellow Southern California bands Nitty Gritty
Dirt Band (with whom he was briefly a member
in 1966) and the Eagles, the
latter of whom had their first Billboard Top 40 hit in 1972 with the Browne co-written song "Take It Easy".
Encouraged by his successes writing songs for
others, Browne released his self-titled
debut album in 1972, which spawned two Top 40
hits of his own, "Doctor, My Eyes"
and "Rock Me on
the Water". For his debut album, as well as for
the next several albums and concert tours, Browne started working closely with The Section, a
prolific session band that also worked with a number of other prominent
singer-songwriters of the era. His second album, For Everyman, was
released in 1973, and while it lacked an enduring single, has been
retrospectively assessed as some of his best work, appearing highly on several
"Best Album of All Time" lists. His third album, Late for the Sky, was his
most successful to that point, peaking at number 14 on the Billboard 200 album chart, and earning Browne his first Grammy nomination for
Album of the Year. His fourth album, The Pretender,
continued the pattern of each album topping the previous by peaking at number 5
on the album chart, and spawned the hit singles "Here Come
Those Tears Again" and "The Pretender".
It would be the 1977 album Running on
Empty, however, that would be his signature work,
peaking at number 3 on the album chart, and remaining there for over a year.
Both a live album and a concept album, the
songs on the album explore the themes of life as a touring musician, and the
album was recorded both on stage, and in places touring musicians spend time
when not playing, such as hotel rooms, backstage, and in one case on a moving tour bus. The
album produced two Top 40 singles, "Running on
Empty" and "The Load-Out/Stay",
and many of the other tracks became popular radio hits on the AOR format.
Successful albums continued through the
1980s, including the 1980 album Hold Out,
his only number 1 album, the non-album single "Somebody's Baby",
which was used in the film Fast Times at
Ridgemont High, and 1983's Lawyers in Love, which
included the hit single "Tender Is the
Night". In 1986, he released Lives in the
Balance, which had several radio hits and included
the introspective "In the Shape
of a Heart", which was inspired by the
suicide of his first wife a decade prior. His string of hit albums came to an
end at that point, as his next several albums failed to produce a gold or
platinum RIAA rating.
He released two compilation albums, The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne in 1997, and The Very Best
of Jackson Browne, released in conjunction with
his Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame induction in 2004. His most recent
studio album is 2021's Downhill From Everywhere, the follow-up to 2014's Standing in
the Breach, which included the first fully
realized version of his song "The Birds of
St. Marks", a song he had written at age 18. In 2015, Rolling Stone ranked
him as 37th in its list of the "100 Greatest
Songwriters of All Time".
"Tender Is the Night" is a song by Jackson Browne released in 1983 as the second single from his album Lawyers in Love. The
song peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100,
spending 17 weeks on that chart after debuting at number 79, number 18 on the
US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and number 24 on the US Adult
Contemporary. It was also released as a
single in Germany and the United Kingdom.
The music video for the song included actress
Daryl Hannah.
Between the darkness
on the street
And the houses filling up with light
Between the stillness in my heart
And the roar of the approaching night
Somebody's calling after somebody
Somebody turns the corner out of sight
Looking for somebody
Somewhere in the night
Tender is the night
Tender, when you hold your baby tight
Tender, tender are the motions, tender is the night
Between a life that we expected
And the way it's always been
I can't walk back in again
After the way we fight
When just outside there are people laughing
Living lives we used to lead
Chasing down the love they need
Somewhere in the night
Tender is the night
Tender, and the benediction of the neon light
Tender, tender are the hunters, tender is the night
You're gonna want me tonight
When you're ready to surrender
Forget about who's right
When you're ready to remember
It's another world at night
When you're ready to be tender
Tender, tender tender
Tender, tender tender
Tender
And in the hard light
of an angry sun
No one remembers what was said or done
Tender are the words they choose
You win, I win, we lose
Tender
Tender is the night
Tender
The benediction of the neon light
Tender
Tender are the hunters
Tender is the night
When they hold each other tight
Tender
Tender are the undercover
Tender
The stranger and the secret lover
Tender
Tender are the motions
Tender is the night
When you hold your baby tight
Tender, tender, tender
Tender, tender, tender.
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