List of songs recorded by Cyndi Lauper

This is an alphabetical listing of songs recorded in studio or live by American singer Cyndi Lauper between 1977 and 2018. Lauper's discography, which includes studio and compilation albums, singles, and video releases, is also available.

Songs recorded by Cyndi Lauper
Released songs267

Songs officially released as albums, singles or other media

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Contents
Name of song, lyrics writers/music writers, album and year of release
Song Lyric writer(s) Music writer(s) Album Year
"911" Cyndi Lauper
Stephen Broughton Lunt
True Colors 1986
"A Christmas Duel"
(with The Hives)
Randy Fitzsimmons Non-album single 2008
"A Night To Remember" Cyndi Lauper
Dusty Micale
Franke Previte
A Night to Remember 1989
"A Part Hate" Cyndi Lauper
Tom Gray
David Thornton
Hat Full of Stars 1993
"Above the Clouds"
(featuring Jeff Beck)
Cyndi Lauper
Jeff Beck
Jed Leiber
The Body Acoustic 2005
"Across the Universe"
(by Jake Shimabukuro featuring Cyndi Lauper)
John Lennon
Paul McCartney
Across the Universe
(Jake Shimabukuro album)
2009
"All Through the Night" Jules Shear She's So Unusual 1983
"Anna Blue"
(by Blue Angel)
Cyndi Lauper
John Turi
Blue Angel
(Blue Angel album)
1980
"Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" [Live]
(by Roger Waters and the Bleeding Heart Band featuring Cyndi Lauper)
Roger Waters The Wall – Live in Berlin
(Roger Waters album)
1990
"At Last" Harry Warren
Mack Gordon
At Last 2003
"Ballad of Cleo and Joe" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Sisters of Avalon 1997
"Baby Workout" [Live] Alonzo Tucker
Jackie Wilson
Cyndi Lauper in Paris
(Video release)
1987
"Begging to You" Marty Robbins Detour 2016
"Blue Christmas" Billy Hayes
Jay W. Johnson
Non-album single 2011
"Boy Blue" Cyndi Lauper
Jeff Bova
Stephen Broughton Lunt
True Colors 1986
"Boys Will Be Boys"
(by The Hooters featuring Cyndi Lauper)
Cyndi Lauper
Eric Bazilian
Rob Hyman
Out of Body
(The Hooters album)
1993
"Brimestone and Fire" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Sisters of Avalon 1997
"Broken Glass" Cyndi Lauper
Marv DePeyer
Junior Vasquez
Hat Full of Stars 1993
"Calm Inside the Storm" Cyndi Lauper
Rick Derringer
True Colors 1986
"Can't Blame Me"
(by Blue Angel)
Cyndi Lauper
John Turi
Blue Angel
(Blue Angel album)
1980
"Can't Breathe" Cyndi Lauper
Chau Phan
Alexander Kronlund
Bring Ya to the Brink
(Japanese Edition)
2008
"Change Of Heart" Cyndi Lauper
Essra Mohawk
True Colors 1986
"Christmas Conga" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life 1998
"Code of Silence"
(by Billy Joel featuring Cyndi Lauper as background vocals)
Cyndi Lauper
Billy Joel
The Bridge
(Billy Joel album)
1986
"Cold" Cyndi Lauper
Allee Willis
Daniel Sembello
B-side to
"Who Let In the Rain"
1993
"Cold Sky" Cyndi Lauper
Franke Previte
Alan Roy Scott
Igor Nikolayev
Music Speaks Louder Than Words
(Compilation Album)
1990
"Come On Home" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some 1994
"Comfort You" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Shine
(Japanese Edition)
2004
"Crossroads"
(featuring Jonny Lang)
Robert Johnson Memphis Blues 2010
"Dancing With a Stranger" Cyndi Lauper
Franke Previte
Paul Chiten
A Night to Remember 1989
"Dear John" Cyndi Lauper
Eric Bazilian
Rob Hyman
Hat Full of Stars 1993
"December Child" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life 1998
"Detour"
(featuring Emmylou Harris)
Paul Westmoreland Detour 2016
"Disco Inferno" Leroy Green
Ron Kersey
Non-album single 1999
"Don't Cry No More" Don Robey Memphis Blues 2010
"Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" Bennie Benjamin
Gloria Caldwell
Sol Marcus
At Last 2003
"Down Don't Bother Me"
(featuring Charlie Musselwhite)
Albert King Memphis Blues 2010
"Down So Low" Tracy Nelson Memphis Blues 2010
"Echo" Cyndi Lauper
Peer Åström
Johan Bobäck
William Wittman
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"Early Christmas Morning" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life 1998
"Early in the Mornin'"
(featuring Allen Toussaint and B.B. King)
Leo Hickman
Louis Jordan
Dallas Bartley
Memphis Blues 2010
"Eventually" Cyndi Lauper
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Shine
(Japanese Edition
2004
"Everybody's Got an Angel"
(by Blue Angel)
Cyndi Lauper
Lee Brovitz
John Morelli
Arthur "Rockin' A" Neilson
John Turi
Henry Gross
Blue Angel
(Blue Angel album)
1980
"Fade"
(by Blue Angel)
Cyndi Lauper
John Turi
Blue Angel
(Blue Angel album)
1980
"Fall Into Your Dreams" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Sisters of Avalon 1997
"Feels Like Christmas" Cyndi Lauper
Eric Bazilian
Rob Hyman
Hat Full of Stars 1993
"Fearless" Cyndi Lauper Sisters of Avalon 1997
"Funnel of Love" Charlie McCoy
Kent Westbury
Detour 2016
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" Robert Hazard She's So Unusual 1983
"The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" Cyndi Lauper
Stephen Broughton Lunt
Arthur Stead
The Goonies: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 1985
"Got Candy" Cyndi Lauper
Richard Morel
Bring Ya to the Brink
(Japanese Edition)
2008
"Grab a Hold" Cyndi Lauper
Dan Kurtz
Martina Sorbara
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"Give It Up" Cyndi Lauper
Steve Cornish
Nicholas Mace
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"Hard Candy Christmas" Carol Hall Detour 2016
"Hat Full of Stars" Cyndi Lauper
Nicky Holland
Hat Full of Stars 1993
"He's So Unusual" Al Sherman
Al Lewis
Abner Silver
She's So Unusual 1983
"Heading for the Moon" Cyndi Lauper
Stephen Broughton Lunt
Arthur Stead
B-side to
"True Colors"
1986
"Heading West" Cyndi Lauper
Tom Kelly
Billy Steinberg
A Night to Remember 1989
"Heartaches by the Number" Harlan Howard Detour 2016
"Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)" Lolly Vegas
Robert Hazard
Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some 1994
"High and Mighty" Cyndi Lauper
Jesse Houk
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"Higher Plane" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Shine
(Japanese Edition)
2004
"Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)" Richard Orange Non-album single 1988
"Home on Christmas Day" Cyndi Lauper
Rob Hyman
William Wittman
Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life 1998
"Hot Gets a Little Cold" Cyndi Lauper
Catherine Russel
Sisters of Avalon 1997
"How Blue Can You Get?"
(featuring Jonny Lang)
Jane Feather Memphis Blues 2010
"Hymn to Love" Eddie Constantine
(Original French lyrics
by Edith Piaf)
Marguerite Monnot At Last 2003
"I Drove All Night" Tom Kelly
Billy Steinberg
A Night to Remember 1989
"I Don't Want to Be Your Friend" Diane Warren A Night to Remember 1989
"I Don't Want to Cry"
(featuring Leo Gandelman or TOKU)
Chuck Jackson Memphis Blues
(Latin American and Japanese Editions)
2010
"I Fall to Pieces" Hank Cochran
Harlan Howard
Detour 2016
"I Had a Love"
(by Blue Angel)
Cyndi Lauper
John Turi
Blue Angel
(Blue Angel album)
1980
"I Miss My Baby" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Shine
(Japanese Edition)
2004
"I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever" Cyndi Lauper
Mark Mothersbaugh
Music from Rugrats in Paris: The Movie 2000
"I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart" Patsy Montana Detour 2016
"I'll Be Your River"
(featuring Vivian Green)
Cyndi Lauper
Tom Hammer
The Body Acoustic 2005
"I'll Kiss You" Cyndi Lauper
Jules Shear
She's So Unusual 1983
"I'm Gonna Be Strong"
(by Blue Angel and Solo)
Barry Mann
Cynthia Weil
Blue Angel
Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some
1980
1994
"If by Chance"
(by Wild Colonials featuring Cyndi Lauper)
Paul Cantelon
Thaddeus Corea
Angela McCluskey
Scott Roewe
Reel Life, Vol. 1
(Wild Colonials album)
2000
"If You Go Away" Rod McKuen
(Original French lyrics
by Jacques Brel)
Jacques Brel At Last 2003
"Iko Iko" Rosa Lee Hawkins
Barbara Anne Hawkins
Joan Marie Johnson
Sharon Jones
Marilyn Jones
Boogaloo Joe Jones
Jesse Thomas
True Colors 1986
"In the Bleak Midwinter" Christina Rossetti Gustav Holst Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life 1998
"Insecurious" Cyndi Lauper
Diane Warren
Desmond Child
A Night to Remember 1989
"Into the Nightlife" Cyndi Lauper
Peer Åström
Johan Bobäck
Max Martin
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"It's Hard to Be Me" Cyndi Lauper
Rob Hyman
William Wittman
Shine 2002
"Just the Other Day"
(by Blue Angel)
Cyndi Lauper
John Turi
Blue Angel
(Blue Angel album)
1980
"Just Your Fool"
(featuring Charlie Musselwhite)
Marion Walter Jacobs Memphis Blues 2010
"Kindred Spirit" Cyndi Lauper A Night to Remember 1989
"La Vie en Rose" Mack David
(Original French lyrics
by Edith Piaf)
Louiguy
Marguerite Monnot
At Last 2003
"Lay Me Down" Cyndi Lauper
Andreas Kleerup
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"Lies" Cyndi Lauper
Allee Willis
Hat Full of Stars 1993
"Like a Cat" Christina Amphlett
Tom Kelly
Billy Steinberg
A Night to Remember 1989
"Like I Used To" Cyndi Lauper
Allee Willis
Hat Full of Stars 1993
"Lorraine"
(by Blue Angel)
Cyndi Lauper
John Turi
Blue Angel
(Blue Angel album)
1980
"Love to Hate" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Sisters of Avalon 1997
"Lyfe" Cyndi Lauper
Roger Fife
Melissa Greene
Sammy Merendino
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"Madonna Whore" Cyndi Lauper
William Wittman
Shine 2002
"Makin' Whoopee"
(with Tony Bennett)
Gus Kahn Walter Donaldson At Last 2003
"Maybe He'll Know"
(by Blue Angel)
Cyndi Lauper
John Turi
Blue Angel
(Blue Angel album)
1980
"Minnie and Santa" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life 1998
"Misty Blue" Bob Montgomery Detour 2016
"Mother" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Sisters of Avalon 1997
"Money Changes Everything" Tom Gray She's So Unusual 1983
"My Baby Just Cares for Me" Gus Kahn Walter Donaldson At Last 2003
"My First Night Without You" Cyndi Lauper
Tom Kelly
Billy Steinberg
A Night to Remember 1989
"New Year's Baby (First Lullaby)" Cyndi Lauper Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life 1998
"Night Life"
(featuring Willie Nelson)
Walt Breeland
Paul Buskirk
Willie Nelson
Detour 2016
"On the Sunny Side of the Street" Dorothy Fields Jimmy McHugh At Last 2003
"One Track Mind" Cyndi Lauper
Jeff Bova
Jimmy Bralowe
Lennie Petze
True Colors 1986
"Primitive" Cyndi Lauper
Tom Kelly
Billy Steinberg
A Night to Remember 1989
"Prisoner of Love" Leo Robin Russ Columbo
Clarence Gaskill
Romance & Cigaretts
(Film)
2005
"Product of Misery" Cyndi Lauper
Eric Bazilian
Rob Hyman
Hat Full of Stars 1993
"Rain on Me" Cyndi Lauper
Chau Phan
Axel Hedfors
Alexander Kronlund
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"Raging Storm" Cyndi Lauper
Richard Morel
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"Rather Be with You" Cyndi Lauper
Doc Fleming
Marcello Nines
Shine
(Japanese Edition)
2004
"Right Track, Wrong Train" Cyndi Lauper
Ellie Greenwich
Jeff Kent
B-side to
"Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
1983
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" Johnny Marks Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life 1998
"Rocking Chair" Cyndi Lauper
Felix Buxton
Simon Ratcliffe
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"Rollin' and Tumblin'" Muddy Waters Memphis Blues 2010
"Romance in the Dark" William Lee Conley Broonzy

Lillian Green

Memphis Blues 2010
"Sally's Pigeons" Cyndi Lauper
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Hat Full of Stars 1993
"Same Ol' Story" Cyndi Lauper
Richard Morel
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town"
(with Frank Sinatra)
John Frederick Coots
Haven Gillespie
A Very Special Christmas 2
(Various artists)
1992
"Say a Prayer" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Sisters of Avalon 1997
"Searching" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Sisters of Avalon 1997
"Set Your Heart" Cyndi Lauper
Victor Carstarphen
Gene McFadden
Richard Morel
John Whitehead
Bring Ya to the Brink 2008
"Sex Is in the Heel" Cyndi Lauper Non-album single 2012
"Shattered Dreams"
(featuring Allen Toussaint)
Lowell Fulson
Washington Ferdinand
Memphis Blues 2010
"She Bop" Cyndi Lauper
Rick Chertoff
Gary Corbett
Stephen Broughton Lunt
She's So Unusual 1983
"Shine" Cyndi Lauper
William Wittman
Shine 2002
"Silent Night" Franz Gruber
Josef Mohr
Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life 1998
"Sisters of Avalon" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Sisters of Avalon 1997
"Someone Like Me" Cyndi Lauper
Eric Bazilian
Rob Hyman
Allee Willis
Hat Full of Stars 1993
"Stay" Maurice Williams At Last 2003
"Steady"
(by Jules Shear featuring Cyndi Lauper as background vocals)
Cyndi Lauper
Jules Shear
The Eternal Return
(Jules Shear album)
1985
"Take a Chance"
(by Blue Angel)
Cyndi Lauper
John Turi
Blue Angel
(Blue Angel album)
1980
"That's What I Think" Cyndi Lauper
Eric Bazilian
Rob Hyman
Allee Willis
Hat Full of Stars 1993
"The Faraway Nearby" Cyndi Lauper
Tom Gray
True Colors 1986
"The World Is Stone" Tim Rice
(Original French lyrics
by Luc Plamondon)
Michel Berger Tycoon
(Various artists)
1992
"Time After Time" Cyndi Lauper
Rob Hyman
She's So Unusual 1983
"True Colors" Tom Kelly
Billy Steinberg
True Colors 1986
"Unabbreviated Love" Cyndi Lauper
Dusty Micale
Franke Previte
B-side to
"My First Night Without You"
1989
"Unchained Melody" Hy Zaret Alex North At Last 2003
"Unconditional Love" Cyndi Lauper
Tom Kelly
Billy Steinberg
A Night to Remember 1989
"Unhook the Stars" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Sisters of Avalon 1997
"Valentino" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Shine
(Japanese Edition)
2004
"Walk On By" Hal David Burt Bacharach At Last 2003
"Walkin' After Midnight" Alan Block
Donn Hecht
Detour 2016
"Water's Edge" Cyndi Lauper
Rob Hyman
Shine 2002
"We Are the World"
(by USA for Africa)
Michael Jackson
Lionel Richie
We Are the World
(USA for Africa album)
1985
"What a Thrill" Cyndi Lauper
John Turi
The Goonies: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 1985
"What's Going On" Renaldo Benson
Al Cleveland
Marvin Gaye
True Colors 1986
"When You Were Mine" Prince She's So Unusual 1983
"Who Let In the Rain" Cyndi Lauper
Allee Willis
Hat Full of Stars
Shine (Japanese Edition)
1993
2004
"Wide Open" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Shine
(Japanese Edition)
2004
"Witness" Cyndi Lauper
John Turi
She's So Unusual 1983
"Yeah Yeah" Hasse Huss
Mikael Rickfors
She's So Unusual 1983
"You Don't Know" Cyndi Lauper
Jan Pulsford
Sisters of Avalon 1997
"You Have to Learn to Live Alone" Tim Rice
(Original French lyrics
by Luc Plamondon)
Michel Berger Tycoon
(Various artists)
1992
"You Make Loving Fun" Christine McVie Non-album single 1984
"You're the Reason Our Kids are Ugly"
(featuring Vince Gill)
Lola Jean Dillon
L. E. White
Detour 2016
"You've Really Got a Hold on Me" Smokey Robinson At Last 2003
  • "Callin' (You) (Me)" *
  • "Carey"
  • "Chicken Man" *
  • "Cut Out"
  • "Cyrus in the Moonlight"
  • "Destiny" *
  • "Do The Twist (Twister Sisters)" *
  • "Don't Know"
  • "Don't Look Back" *
  • "Don't Make It A Mistake"
  • "Early Bird"
  • "Edge Of The Earth"
  • "Eleven Days"
  • "Endless Moment" *
  • "Falling In Love Again"
  • "Festival Zydeco"
  • "Five Days"
  • "Flyer"
  • "Jano" *
  • "Jim Jive"
  • "Just Like Before" *
  • "Your Sweet Lovin' "
  • "Zero Landmine"

* denotes songs from soundtracks and other multi-artist recordings