A Night to Remember (Shalamar song)

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Charts

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US Billboard Hot 100[2] 44
US Dance/Disco Top 80 (Billboard)[3] 15
US Hot Soul Singles (Billboard)[4] 8

Certifications

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911 version

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Chart (1996) Peak
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Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref.
United Kingdom 29 April 1996 Template:Hlist Ginga [6]

Liberty X version

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Track listings

UK CD1[8]

  1. "A Night to Remember" (radio edit) – 3:02
  2. "Everybody Dance" (radio edit) – 3:07

UK CD2[9]

  1. "A Night to Remember" (full length version) – 5:07
  2. "Everybody Dance" (full length version) – 5:03
  3. "A Holy Night" (unplugged acoustic) – 3:12
  4. "A Night to Remember" (video)

Australian CD single[10]

  1. "A Night to Remember" (radio edit)
  2. "A Night to Remember" (Methods of Flow club mix)
  3. "A Night to Remember" (full length version)
  4. "Everybody Dance" (full length version)
  5. "Song 4 Lovers" (radio edit)

Charts

Weekly charts

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Year-end charts

Chart (2005) Position
UK Singles (OCC)[11] 135

Release history

Region Date Format(s) Label(s) Ref(s).
Ireland November 14, 2005 Digital download Template:Hlist [12]
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Australia February 20, 2006 CD Rajon Music [15]

Popular culture

  • The Shalamar recording is also famously associated with the introduction of the moonwalk dance by Shalamar member Jeffrey Daniel on the UK music show Top of the Pops in June 1982, several months before Michael Jackson performed the move on the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever television special.[16]
  • For the season 3 finale of Girlfriends, the dance scene at the end of the episode originally aired with the Shalamar version of this song as background music, though for streaming and DVD releases, the rights to this song couldn't be secured.
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