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"Tango in the Night" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac from their album of the same name. Although "Tango in the Night" was not released as a single, it reached No. 28 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart. However, the title track was heavily overshadowed by the album's hit singles.[1]

"Tango in the Night"
Song by Fleetwood Mac
from the album Tango in the Night
Released	1987
Recorded	1986-1987
Genre	New age, rock
Length	3:56
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Lindsey Buckingham
Producer(s)	Lindsey Buckingham & Richard Dashut

Background

Following the release Lindsey Buckingham's second album, Go Insane, the guitarist began crafting songs for what he intended to be his third solo album. The songs "Tango in the Night", "Big Love", and "Caroline" were written for that project.[2] However, when the band reconvened for a new studio album in 1986, he used the aforementioned songs for Tango in the Night .[3]

The absence of Stevie Nicks in the studio gave Buckingham more creative liberty to expand the band's palette of sounds, which included the use of tinkering xylophones, tambourines strikes, and güira scrapes.[4]

While the musical arrangement was completed before the Tango sessions, the lyrics had yet to be fully developed. An early demo of the song, included on the deluxe edition of Tango in the Night, featured a trembling vocal line at the end of every chorus, which was eventually incorporated into another Buckingham-penned track, "Caroline".[5]

Personnel

Fleetwood Mac

• Christine McVie – keyboards, synthesizer
• Lindsey Buckingham – lead vocals, guitars, keyboards, Fairlight CMI sampling synthesizer, lap harp, percussion, programming
• John McVie – bass guitar
• Mick Fleetwood – drums, percussion

Charts

Chart (1987)	Peak position
US Album Rock Tracks (Billboard)[6]	28

References

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