Heading West

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"
Released 1989
Recorded 1989
Genre Pop
Label Epic Records
Writer(s) Cyndi Lauper, Billy Steinberg, Tom Kelly
Producer(s) Cyndi Lauper, Lennie Petze
Cyndi Lauper singles chronology
"A Night to Remember"
(1989)
"Heading West"
(1989)
"Primitive"
(1990)

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

"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.

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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