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The song was first recorded by Bing Crosby on August 19, with Studio Orchestra directed by Victor Young , [1] staying on the pop charts for six weeks, peaking at 3, [2] and helping to make it a lasting standard. The recording by Artie Shaw and His Orchestra [3] earned Shaw one of his eight gold records at the height of the Big Band era of the s and s. In the film it is orchestrally performed to a ballet dance set in Central Park. The song is given a 'sensual and dramatic' [4] orchestration by Conrad Salinger , with the dance choreographed by Michael Kidd and performed by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. Steve Martin was the host for the final episode of season 14 of Saturday Night Live. In the opening monologue, he visibly struggled to hold back tears as he paid tribute to Gilda Radner , who had died of cancer on the afternoon before the broadcast. Martin and Radner's "Dancing in the Dark" sketch, originally shown in episode 64 in , was also offered in tribute.
Adding uptempo synthesizer riffs to his sound for the first time, the song spent four weeks at number two on the Billboard Hot [4] and sold over one million singles in the U. It was the first single released from his album, Born in the U. The song is written in the key of B major with a tempo of beats per minute [6] in common time. Springsteen wrote "Dancing In the Dark" overnight, after Jon Landau convinced him that the album needed a single. You want another one, you write it.