Everything But The Girl

Songwriter: Cole Porter

Producer: Tracey Thorn Ben Watt

[Verse 1: Tracey Thorn]
Night and day
You are the one
Only you
Beneath the moon
And under the sun
Whether near to me or far
No matter darling
Where you are
I think of you
Night and day

[Verse 2: Tracey Thorn]
Day and night
Why is it so
That this longing for you
Follows me wherever I go?
In the roaring traffic's boom
In the silence of my lonely room
I think of you
Night and day

[Verse 3: Tracey Thorn]
Night and day
Deep in the heart of me
There's an oh such a hungry yearning
Burning inside of me
And this torment won't be through
Until you let me spend my life making love to you
Day and night, night and day

[Verse 4: Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt]
Night and day
Deep in the heart of me
There's an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me
And this torment won't be through
'Til you let me spend my life making love to you
Day and night
(Night and day)

[Outro: Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt]
This torment won't be through
(Night and day)
Until I spend my life with you
(Night and day)
Day and night
(Night and day)
Day and night
(Night and day)
Day and night
(Night and day)
Day and night

Originating at the turn of the 1980s as a leader of the lite-jazz movement, Everything but the Girl became an unlikely success story more than a decade later, emerging at the vanguard of the fusion between pop and electronica.

Founded in 1982 by Hull University students Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, the duo took their name from a sign placed in the window of a local furniture shop, which claimed “for your bedroom needs, we sell everything but the girl.” At the time of their formation, both vocalist Thorn and songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Watt were already signed independently to the Cherry Red label; Thorn was a member of the sublime Marine Girls, while Watt had issued several solo singles and also collaborated with Robert Wyatt.

Everything but the Girl debuted in 1982 with a samba interpretation of Cole Porter’s “Night and Day”; the single was a success on the U.K. independent charts, but the duo nonetheless went on hiatus as Thorn recorded a solo EP, A Distant Shore, while Watt checked in with the full-length North Marine Drive in 1983. EBTG soon reunited to record a cover of the Jam’s “English Rose” for an NME sampler; the track so impressed former Jam frontman Paul Weller that he invited the duo to contribute to the 1984 LP Cafe Bleu, the debut from his new project, the Style Council.

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Night and Day - Single

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Night and Day - Single (1982)

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