"Time after Time" is a jazz standard written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne.
It appeared in the 1947 movie It Happened in Brooklyn.
It has been recorded by many artists, including:
Another song, also called "Time after Time", by Birge (Yale '68), with original music and lyrics, has been recorded by more groups of the Yale Whiffenpoofs than any song other than "The Whiffenpoof Song" and "Aj, Lucka, Lucka Siroka", their two traditional opening and closing numbers.
"Time after Time" was a single by singer Cyndi Lauper, the second from her She's So Unusual album, and it reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 charts on June 9, 1984. The song was at #1 for two weeks and to date is her second highest charting and most commercially successful single worldwide after "Girls Just Want to Have Fun". It also reached #3 in the UK and #6 in Australia. Time after Time is also a song by R.E.M. from their second studio album Reckoning.
"Time after Time" was nominated for "Song of the Year" at the 1985 Grammy Awards. The ballad is considered a classic of the 1980s and is still played frequently on adult contemporary radio.
"Time after Time" is the eighth song on the 1991 Ozzy Osbourne heavy metal album No More Tears.
