#38 "ALL NIGHT LONG"
LIONEL RICHIE, 1983

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Now hear me out before you pound out an email telling me how screwed up this pick is.  Lionel Richie can write some songs!  He gave you funky classics like "Brick House" and perfect ballads like "Easy", "Endless Love" and Kenny Rogers' "Lady".  Anyway, I had a good laugh when Adrian Fuoco sent me an email campaigning for it's inclusion, but it makes perfect sense after I read it, "Not a bad song for all intents and purposes, plus, it's featured quite nicely in the Miami Vice pilot. Anyway, you may recall one point in the song where, for whatever reason, Lionel starts singing in some strange language mixed with English. It almost sounds like Lionel is speaking in tongues ala DeNiro in Cape Fear. Here's what he says, I took it from some lyrics site that had exactly 2.6 million pop-ups per second.

Tom bo li de say de moi ya
Yeah, jambo jumbo
Way to parti' o we goin'
Oh, jambali
Tom bo li de say de moi ya
Yeah, jambo jumbo!!

After this is breaks into a sweet horn riff, then Lionel mellows right out and he's like:

Oh, oh, oh, oh, yes!
We're gonna have a party, yeah....ugh

And then it's right back into the chorus

Actually, now that I think of it, that song kinda rocks. No wonder they used it to introduce evil drug lord Calderone to the world."

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