• Source: Children of the Night (Richard Marx song)

"Children of the Night" is a song written and recorded by Richard Marx, issued as the sixth and final single from his second album Repeat Offender. The song peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1990, and was written in support of the suburban Los Angeles (Van Nuys)-based organization for runaways.




Composition


In a 2018 interview with Songfacts, Marx said:

I was in a hotel room on tour, and I was watching 60 Minutes. There was a piece on this woman, Dr Lois Lee, who created the Children of the Night foundation, and I was just riveted by the story. The next day, I had my manager reach out to Dr Lee. We got on the phone, and I said, "I want to help. I also think that there is a song here. But I can't remotely write this without really researching it."
So, when I got off the road, she connected me with three or four of the kids that had been sheltered by the foundation, and had been on the streets – had been prostitutes, drug addicts, in rehab – and had their lives together. I spent a couple of days just hanging out with these kids, and they were very generous with telling me what their lives had been like. So, I wrote the lyric based upon the conversations I had with these kids. And immediately, I knew the only right thing to do was to make all of the proceeds from the song go to the foundation. Luckily, the song was a pretty big hit, and the money generated from it built a whole new shelter in Los Angeles, and I continue to support them to this day.




Track listing


All songs written Richard Marx and produced by Marx and David Cole.

"Children of the Night" – 4:10
"Real World" [Live at The Palace Theatre] – 4:12




Personnel


Richard Marx – lead and backing vocals
Michael Omartian – keyboards, acoustic piano
C.J. Vanston – keyboards
Michael Landau – guitars, guitar solo
Randy Jackson – bass
Prairie Prince – drums
Paulinho da Costa – percussion
Tom Scott – sax solo
Larry Williams – saxophones
Gary Grant – trumpet
Jerry Hey – trumpet
Dick Marx – horn arrangements
Shelley Cole – backing vocals
Kevin Cronin – backing vocals
Larry Gatlin – backing vocals
Rudy Gatlin – backing vocals
Steve Gatlin – backing vocals
Ruth Marx – backing vocals
Gene Miller – backing vocals
Cynthia Rhodes – backing vocals
Don Shelton – backing vocals
Terry Williams – backing vocals
The Children of the Night – choir




Charts






References






External links


"Children Of The Night" on YouTube

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