Ellen Foley - We Belong To The Night (1979) • TopPop

Ellen Foley (June 5, 1951 - St. Louis) is an American singer and actress. As a singer she has made four solo albums, but is best known for her collaboration with other artists, of whom Meat Loaf is probably the best known.
Her breakthrough came in late 1977 with the duet 'Paradise by the Dashboard Light' with Meat Loaf on his album 'Bat Out of Hell'.
Her debut album 'Night Out' was released in 1979, and is also her best known album. It includes the hit singles 'We Belong to the Night' and 'What's a Matter Baby'. The album was produced by Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson who also played on it. Her other two solo albums were entitled 'Spirit of St. Louis' from 1981 and 'Another Breath' from 1983.
'We Belong To The Night' reached no. 1 in the Dutch Top 40 in November 1979.
This Toppop recording was broadcast on 22 October 1979
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Broadcast date: 1979-10-22
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[@MuckJagger]

I could live to be 1,000 and I still wouldn't ever understand how Ellen didn't become a *huge* star with that voice.

[@brucemoyle7610]

Spine tingling. Absolutely epic performance by one of the all-time greats at her peak.

[@Bayan1905]

One of the best singers and drop dead gorgeous to boot.

[@lorellemcgee2813]

The greatest female voice I have ever heard. Absolutely incredible.

[@tjcint]

LorelIe, the same for me. I have never heard a better female vocalist, ever. She is, as you have said, absolutely incredible.

[@christinethirion3246]

Je pense tout à fait comme vous. Une voix vraiment exceptionnelle.

[@PrinceKima_12]

Why weren't songwriters lining up? For decades? Don't understand it. She's a dream singer.

[@John-gv2ug]

Ellen is too often underrated. Her voice deserved more great songs.

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

You need to give examples of this rating nonsense. The lady had fans all over, critical acclaim and the hottest songwriters handed her their work. You need to get away from following the pack, writing KZbin cliches like "under-rated".

[@Gramsgirl-ie8fb]

@@BlueBeeMCMLXIWell, I am in Australia. Knew she did work with Meatloaf and I bought the Night out album when it came out. Then, nothing. So yeah very much underrated

[@jonsmith7667]

@@BlueBeeMCMLXI this is my youtube drinking game, I listen to old favorites and when someone is "so underrated" in the comments...DRINK :)

[@tjcint]

Without doubt one of the most gifted singers/artists of the last 100 years.

[@walterjamessimpson5829]

What a voice. I first took notice of Ellen Foley in 1980 .with that vocal range she should be a bigger star.very underated .

[@pierre4252]

Amazing Voice... Remember the rock song Paradise to the dashboard light of meat loaf👍👍👍

[@bobbamford5207]

She sang her Heart out on Dashboard light.

[@driver9337]

Paradise by the Dashboard Light

[@carolbilney6718]

Yeah I knew it was her with Meatloaf. I am 63 and I can proudly say I actually purchased her very first cassette tape 40 something years ago and still marvel at her voice to this day.

[@rudolftrost3534]

As did I! Still among my favourite music.

[@richardgrootjen3057]

I'm 54 but at least we have a clear clip now. Greetz from Holland!!

[@viewer3147]

What's the matter baby?

[@jasontaverner391]

I bought this album and her second album. A powerful voice with no peers. She should have been huge. She had Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson on her first album, and The Clash on her second and it still wasn't enough. Bad marketing, and some self-inflicted wounds.

[@carolbilney6718]

Also how many of you knew she was also a member of the girl group Pussycat?

[@jburma]

"I just can't wait...for the night to come." The way she performs the build up, and delivers that line, while throwing off her coat in the middle, is pretty awesome-- gives me major chills every time. Brilliant performance!

[@miekekooima]

Schitterend nummer, kippenvel.🤩🤩

[@chandrakant1479]

Totally agree

[@samwalker7821]

Ellen always puts on a great performance. She has heart and soul! Thank you Ellen!

[@cricketbat09]

What a fantastic performer. Great voice and energy. ❤

[@Steini58]

One of the best voices i've heard in my life.

[@cherish9493]

I so appreciate this woman who does not hold back her heart and soul.. I love to watch this - i think its a brave and beautiful thing to show urself like this...

[@stephenarthur6970]

-Ellen Foley what a Diva she puts 100 percent into her performances what a voice . Love her

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

Well you could use a term normally reserved for opera...

[@kanndyer]

What a powerful voice!!

[@nickrussell5133]

I was a monster fan of Ellen and loved her Night Out album..."Don't let go" is one of my favourite tracks of all time...

[@strictlynorton]

Hunter and Ronson really utilised Ellen on this album, giving her an almost Wall of Sound backdrop for a voice which is elite tier. The covers were brilliant, Timi Yuro and Jagger/Richards show how grounded in R&R and R&B both are. If they'd produced her 2nd album imho she would've become a global megastar. A sensational debut!

[@gustaaf1892]

I loved Night Out and bought the follow up album on the strength of that. It was terrible and a waste of my limited money back in those times. I thought you couldn't go wrong with that voice, but you can with the wrong song choices and lesser producers.

[@rodneyross4450]

Ian Hunter...?

[@Ton-gm3lf]

The godmother of rock. I love you Ellen, thank you for making me less alone in all my lonely nights😍😍😍

[@aaronjones6892]

Not a diva, just divine

[@clairessunnyoutlook4689]

Naturally powerful voice. She makes it look so easy 🌟✨🌟

[@michaelt.wardlespider2496]

Fell in love with her on Night Court. Had no idea she was a singer, or that she was the female vocalist on Paradise for ages.

[@Boyonabicycle]

A powerful singer who exudes strength and courage.

[@andreheemskerk1]

Ellen is so good, her voice is so beautiful

[@seasidestone]

What a power woman!!!!!! The best song of the 70's....

[@paultreadaway102]

She's a stunner what a voice on her own delivering this Epic Song got this on my Classic Rare Hits Of The 70s

[@johanjansszen1882]

Ellen Foley was the best female singer from the western zone in her time fantastico belissimo!

[@michelleseal988]

Such a wonderful song as well as a great singer such a great voice too .. ❤ love the song still plays on the radio 📻

[@FrontRow2023]

What a voice ❤️❤️❤️

[@Franssterk]

How many people know that she was the female voice in "Paradise by the dashboard light" from Meatloaf

[@jameslee7535]

it's a shame she wasn't in the video ! Ellen is better looking than karla de Vito she has a better voice as well !

[@paulapeters4777]

I totaly agree.

[@sandwichman100]

hands down the best female singer of power ballad should have been in the PBTDBL clip.

[@meigsman59]

This song was produced by Mick Ronson of David Bowie The Spiders from Mars fame. Plays lead guitar on this song.

[@ludwigvanosselaer4179]

no I did't know that , nice to tell that

[@Muzikgirl67]

Absolute Perfection! The good people of Holland got it right when this song went to #1 there...it also did well in Australia, reaching #15...but why didn't the rest of the world jump on the bandwagon?..This is a definite pop/rock anthem just waiting to be heard by the rest of the world...all I can say is...thank you Ellen for 5 minutes of pure bliss!🎵🎵🎵

[@bfulton4]

This is not a North American song it would not fly here!

[@aquamarine_nz2296]

I had her album and I loved loved loved it. NZ and Australia.

[@Muzikgirl67]

@@bfulton4 Proud to say that I AM an American, and I love it! I would've cranked the radio up everytime it came on, if it would've been released as a single here! My original comment from a year ago remains true!💜💜

[@bethy-lou3307]

Muzikgirl67 Thank you. Amazingly powerful voice. Thank you, my dear, dear friend and fellow night person.

[@bethy-lou3307]

@@bfulton4 I would have bought it. Beautiful voice, true lyrics, loved it.

[@ianmajor8757]

I've been in love with this woman's voice for 30 years, but thi the first time i have seen her. Gosh she is gorgeous

[@ferox965]

She was also on Night Court's second season.

[@h193013]

I actually know her from Into the Woods. She played the witch in San Diego before they brought it to Broadway

[@lauralockman8472]

She played a waitress in the movie cocktail

[@mebpratt859]

When she played Billie on the original Night Court you would have never guessed she had such a great singing voice.

[@grahamstockdale9567]

another example of ronson,s brilliance

[@mohamad-ms2pb]

Hitsville UK brought me here.

[@wielkillaars5853]

this voice is the best of a whole decennium

[@waltersimpson2936]

What a voice.i remember I whas seventeen at the time.and I loved this song.by Ellen foley

[@knutolavhalseth6761]

I was 16 and this song simply defined my music taste. The most important song of my teens, without doubt!

[@carlosjtorotorres5451]

WOW!!! Ellen is most definitely Rock’s best Female singer who’s unfortunately forgotten & she deserved to be better recognized than just as the musical love interest of the legendary Meatloaf 💗 💕 ❤️ 👩‍🎤 😯 😳 🤩

[@sladeippie5841]

Er!, Anne Wilson

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

I would challenge that she is forgotten, she has fans all over.

[@johnmcdonnell7268]

​@@sladeippie5841 er, Pat Benatar, Annie Lennox.

[@andreheemskerk1]

Wat fijn dat ik in deze tijd ben opgegroeid, dit singeltje van Ellen heb ik ook nog.

[@sgtscheetje]

The Voice and guitar of Ronno in the background!

[@marcvanvliet9386]

yeah one of the best singers who can bring really emotion in the song this is a so old song and it gives me chills from a song of maybe 40 years old what a voice thank you ellen that we can play your music still these days awesome 👍👍👍mark

[@joaomauriciohackcardozo5590]

She's really sensational!!!

[@dorkvader5332]

The whole album is fantastic.

[@gustaaf1892]

I agree, but unfortunately the follow up album wasn't much chop, which is surprising when someone has as great a voice as Ellen had.

[@theresapillar2093]

I love her voice.

[@ElisabethKlaassen]

Wonderful voice and singer TOP !!!!!

[@ivanhass1510]

I love that song is my favorite, we long to night! I love it!!!!......

[@TheTOOTO14]

What can i say ,remember this and the year ,, woow and just this song , just so amazing her voice ,

[@ronaldmeijer5233]

gisteren toevallig het singletje van gekocht klingt goed PACO

[@juan58102]

Powerful voice... Pretty girl... Arica... Chile

[@taffdavies9386]

Really fab voice and performers good looking lady I will continue to follow Ellen foley

[@zorbeclegras5708]

What a good singer!

[@DinoHF79]

Ellen you've got a great voice!

[@EnriquilloAmiama]

Great song!

[@dickvandertoorn5587]

I love..😍😍... This Great Song....&...... Great Music.......Gr. From The Music Lover....Hollanda....

[@schnazzybo]

beautiful voice, I can listen to her all day....her, Terri Nunn, Johnette Napolitano

[@CP-ij8hh]

Johnette Napolitano / Concrete Blonde yeeeeeeeeeeeees

[@lorrainedavy3178]

I was 19 and in luv when l heard this lm 64:this year wow l still luv this song ❤❤❤😊😊😊

[@tonycostanzo4276]

so was i 1960

[@Thenosferatu1900]

What a powerful voice

[@ivanhass1510]

I love her so much and Beautiful 🌹🌹🌹 song my favorite 💗💗💗 and Beautiful lady

[@MaskedMan66]

She was also one of the cast in the first season of the sitcom "Night Court."

[@80smoviesfan]

Second season as Billy Young

[@MaskedMan66]

@@80smoviesfan Billie.

[@MaskedMan66]

@@80smoviesfan Really? I thought she was in the first season. Of course, it's been decades.

[@80smoviesfan]

@@MaskedMan66 they started with Karen Austin

[@MaskedMan66]

@@80smoviesfan Wow, it has been a long time! I'm ashamed to say I don't even remember her.

[@ApoplecticDialectics]

This is song is so, big...expansive. I'm a complete sucker for this.

[@someonesomewhere1600]

Incredible singer. One of my fave albums.

[@123472114]

gehört mit zur besten musik meiner generation! Danke Ellen Hans-Jürgen Schüler 14.11.2021

[@kimtamm9954]

Such a beautiful powerfull voice. I loved her in the movie Fatal Attraction also 😀

[@yolandagasper658]

What a voice had that Woman.

[@jlhandman]

If there is a better female voice in the whole rocknroll business, I'm still waiting to hear it.

[@anja9303]

You never would

[@user-pi5wz4qy3p]

Best performance ever

[@DashRipr0ck]

I am subscribing because you have this video posted. *Thnx* I love Ellen Foley!

[@lutgardlauwers7533]

Beautiful

[@pierre4252]

beautiful voice

[@meandi10000]

is it very sexist of me to call her an astonishing beaty ? she just made my day.

[@johansterk354]

The lyrics ... The burning sun hangs over the city You and me baby, we don't feel nothing at all From nine to five we're lost This life ain't so pretty But when the sun goes down We know that we can stay and talk I just can't wait For the night to come Cause when the shadows covers the light We're the only ones Cause baby, we We belong to the night Yes, baby, we We belong to the night By day we just survive But after dark, we come alive Cause baby, we We belong to the night Dancin' on the street In the heat of the neon The quiet in the cool night air Makes it easy to breathe The music that we hear in our hearts Gives us something to dream of Cause when that lonely soul that calls It's those dreams that we'll need To keep us strong To take us far Far away from the pain of the days Cause that's a cruel mental start Cause baby, we We belong to the night Yes, baby, we We belong to the night By day we just survive But after dark, we come alive Cause baby, we We belong to the night We belong to the night Yes, yes baby, we We belong to the night By day we just survive But after dark, we come alive Cause baby, we We belong to the night We belong to the night We belong to the night Ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh

[@hanniebekker9520]

Great!!!! Beautifull!!!

[@nevillearkinstall]

The most underrated member of the trio that created bat out of tell. Just check the back cover.

[@biscuitsandgravy616]

Loved her in Night Court

[@yvetteschots7102]

Prachtig song i love it

[@neilhunter1711]

Just brilliant solo Ellen Foley excellent

[@paulp6397]

She was fabulous on Night Court.

[@tjiphil]

Great song

[@richarddean4763]

Ellen Foley super star

[@MattPopOfficial]

Magnificent.

[@wandson5410]

Oh great song

[@astridsanders6176]

Yes I did What a voice 💪🏻

[@geno1825]

That's Billie/lawyer from the sitcom series night court very talented singer/actress

[@monty_sultana]

My music teacher used to be in a band with you miss lougchlin

[@mauriceteglia8463]

J'aime encore !

[@jorgeestomba9888]

Great singer !

[@sonnyjames8922]

Never heard of her, beautiful song. Enjoyed it, thanks for sharing it with us.

[@marcvanhoof]

One of my fav.see her in concert and it was fab

[@747driver3]

Wow.

[@themoviedealers]

Ultimate female vocal power ballad.

[@jwessonsr7503]

Such a beautifull girl

[@robertnorton3156]

BRILL GREAT VOCALS FROM ELLEN. VERY MEATLOAF SOUNDING SONG.

[@themoviedealers]

It's giving Springsteen also.

[@robhaunui3343]

The most beautiful power ballad ever,never mind Jennifer Rush's The Power Of Love,this is the real fuckin' thing

[@robhaunui3343]

@Roxanne Griffinsorry, but here you are,saying she's out of tune - hmmmm,I don't think Mick Ronson,Ian Hunter,Mick Jones,Joe Strummer,Meatloaf thought she couldn't sing,but maybe you're a better singer ?

[@marcelbartels9115]

@Roxanne Griffin haha she cannot sing,you must be joking!

[@bugsfbunny]

I loved watching here on the Night Court shows!

[@lindahommol673]

wat heben we genoten van haar muziek geweldig ik en men ex man xx💝

[@brmmrb5780]

Arme linda, met haar ex-man.

[@eduardleon9636]

Love her voice ......

[@MJamieson77]

WOW, WOW, that was awesome a voice worth waiting for but also the beauty, a blonde chick, LUV the song, LUV HER XX Thanks for posting.

[@catherinekennedy9145]

She'd be Great singing with Meatloaf back in the day. I just saw that she did sing with him on Paradise by the dashboard light.

[@Rozmund]

Beauty,Talent,lovely creatures we are . a Joy to watch,listen,and hanky dance to.

[@johncarr3855]

Bought the album about 40years ago.great voice sadly follow up albums were mediocre.