Heading West (song)

"Heading West" was the third single from Cyndi Lauper's album A Night to Remember released worldwide. It was not released as a single in North America.

For the 1922 film starring Hoot Gibson, see Headin' West.
"Heading West"
Single by Cyndi Lauper
from the album A Night to Remember
B-side"Insecurious"
Released22 August 1989
Recorded1989
Genre
  • Pop
  • adult contemporary
LabelEpic Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Cyndi Lauper
  • Lennie Petze
Cyndi Lauper singles chronology
"My First Night Without You"
(1989)		 "Heading West"
(1989)		 "A Night to Remember"
(1989)
Music video
"Heading West" on YouTube

"Heading West" was written by Lauper, Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. The same team wrote "My First Night Without You, and the latter two wrote "True Colors", and "I Drove All Night". The song is about moving on from a past relationship, which was the overall theme of the album. A video was also released which was black and white and had Lauper in an empty field. The song was released outside of the U.S. The single was a minor hit in the UK. Cyndi Lauper said in an interview with O Globo newspaper that "'Heading West' was a great song."[1]

French Canadian pop star Mitsou covered the song as the title track for a 1992 EP and also released it as a single. She added a French spoken word monologue to the end of the song.

Track listing

Chart performance
Chart (1989) Peak
position
Australian Singles Chart[2] 117
Colombian Singles Chart 10
Polish Singles Chart 43
UK Singles Chart[3] 68
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References
  2. "Response from ARIA re: chart inquiry, received 2015-06-05". Imgur. Archived from the original on 2015-06-05. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  3. "Official Charts > Cyndi Lauper". The Official UK Charts Company. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
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