"Along Comes a Woman" is a song written by Peter Cetera and Mark Goldenberg[4] for the group Chicago and recorded for their album Chicago 17 (1984), with Cetera singing lead vocals. The fourth single released from that album,[5] it is the last Chicago single released with original singer/bassist Cetera, who left the band in the summer of 1985.[6][7]
Upon its release in 1985, Billboard magazine highlighted the single in its "Singles: Pop: Picks" section, as a "new release with the greatest chart potential," and called it a "hard rocker."[3] At the end of the year, Billboard magazine music critic, Linda Moleski, listed the single among her top ten highlights of the year as, “An excellent funk-pop sound that’s reflective of 1985.”[8]
The original album version was 4:14 in length.[2] It was remixed to a more high-tech mid-80's sound for the single release which runs 3:47 in length.[3]
The music video, shot in black and white, combined themes from the films Raiders of the Lost Ark and Casablanca[9][10] and featured Peter Cetera, the lead vocalist on the song, in the Indiana Jones/Rick Blaine-type role.[6] It was produced by Jon Small of Picture Vision, Inc., and was directed by Jay Dubin,[9] who also directed the syndicated TV series The Wombles in the 1980s.[11][12] The video was released in 1985, during what some call the "golden era" of MTV.[13]
^ abcdef"Singles: Pop: Picks". Billboard. Vol. 97, no. 9. USA: Billboard Publications, Inc. March 2, 1985. p. 75. Retrieved July 27, 2017 – via Google Books.
^Grein, Paul (February 23, 1985). "Chart Beat: Fast Facts". Billboard. Vol. 97, no. 8. USA: Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 6. Retrieved July 27, 2017 – via Google Books.
^ abDupler, Steven (April 6, 1985). "Video Track: New York". Billboard. Vol. 97, no. 14. USA: Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 40. Retrieved July 27, 2017 – via Google Books.
^Burns, Gary (1994-12-01). "Formula and distinctiveness in movie‐based music videos". Popular Music and Society. 18 (4): 7–17. doi:10.1080/03007769408591569. ISSN0300-7766.
^Zuckerman, Faye (January 26, 1985). "Video Track: New York". Billboard. Vol. 97, no. 4. USA: Billboard Publications, Inc. p. 40. Retrieved July 27, 2017 – via Google Books.
^Dupler, Steve (December 21, 1985). "Dubin Speaks His Mind on Industry Woes". Billboard. Vol. 97, no. 51. USA: Billboard Publications, Inc. pp. 23, 24. Retrieved July 27, 2017 – via Google Books.
