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"'''All Night Long (All Night)'''" is a song by American singer and songwriter [[Lionel Richie]] from his second solo album, ''[[Can't Slow Down (Lionel Richie album)|Can't Slow Down]]'' (1983). The song combined Richie's [[Commodores]] style with [[Caribbean music|Caribbean]] influences. The single reached number one on three [[Billboard charts|''Billboard'' charts]] (pop, R&B and adult contemporary).<ref>{{cite book |title=Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004 |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=492}}</ref> In the UK, it peaked at number two on the [[UK Singles Chart|singles chart]].<ref>{{cite web |title=UK singles chart details for 'All Night Long (All Night)' |url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/singles/all-night-long-(all-night)/ |website=officialcharts.com |access-date=1 January 2020}}</ref>
The song lyrics were written primarily in English, but Richie has admitted in at least one press interview that "African" lyrics in the song, such as "Tam bo li de say de moi ya" and "Jambo jumbo", were in fact [[gibberish]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2013/09/21/five-surprising-facts-about-richies-classic-all-night-long/ |work=[[New York Post]] |first=Kirsten |last=Fleming |title=Five surprising facts about Richie's classic 'All Night Long' |date=21 September 2013}}</ref> Richie has described these portions of the song as a "wonderful joke", written when he discovered that he lacked the time to hire a translator to contribute the foreign-language lyrics he wished to include in the song.<ref>Id.</ref>
==Reception==
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