Patti Smith Group's (Lenny Kaye, Ivan Kral, Richard Sohl and Jay Dee Daugherty)1978 LP "Easter" features the first single from the LP "Because The Night" (Bruce Springsteen - Patti Smith). The song peaked at number thirteen on Billboard at a time when Patti was thinking about retiring from the road. Wikipedia: "The song was originally recorded by Bruce Springsteen during sessions for his Darkness on the Edge of Town album. He was not satisfied with the song and later declared he already knew he wasn't going to finish it since it was "a[nother] love song"; the Patti Smith Group was working on Easter in the studio next door, with engineer/producer Jimmy Iovine working on both albums. Iovine gave Smith a tape of the song." Patti lived for some time with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
10,000 Maniacs (lead vocalist Natalie Merchant, Jerry Augustyniak, Rob Buck, Dennis Drew and Steve Gustafson) covered "Because The Night" for the 1993 album "MTV Unplugged" and it reached higher than the original attaining number eleven on the Top One Hundred.
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