Chart performance:
| Week | Position | Movement | Comments |
| 21-Dec-86 | 30 | New | |
| 28-Dec-86 | 25 | +5 | Biggest climber/Star rater |
| 04-Jan-87 | 23 | +2 | |
| 11-Jan-87 | 19 | +4 | Star rater |
| 18-Jan-87 | 19 | 0 | |
| 25-Jan-87 | 21 | -2 | |
| 01-Feb-87 | 18 | +3 | |
| 08-Feb-87 | 15 | +3 | |
| 15-Feb-87 | 15 | 0 | |
| 22-Feb-87 | 14 | +1 | Peak |
| 01-Mar-87 | 16* | -2 | |
| 08-Mar-87 | 22 | -6 |
* Cyndi Lauper sets a new record of 58 weeks in the charts without ever seeing a biggest faller. She would go on to manage a total of 59 weeks in the charts which would be the all time record chart career without a biggest faller.
Written by: Tom Kelly & Billy Steinberg
Produced by: Cyndi Lauper & Lennie Petze
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): Epic
| Hit number for artist | 4 |
| Peak position | 14 |
| Weeks | 12 |
| Biggest climber awards | 1 |
| Star rater climbs | 2 |
| Biggest faller awards | 0 |
| Top 20 points | 31 |
| Overall Top 20 points ranking | =1841 |
| Top 20 points ranking for the artist | 3 |
| Top 30 Points | 135 |
| Overall Top 30 points ranking | =1586 |
| Top 30 points ranking for the artist | 3 |
Annual ranking:
| 1986 | 128 |
| 1987 | 71 |
Other chart success:
| Australia | 3 |
| Austria | 12 |
| Belgium | 4 |
| Canada | 1 |
| Chile | 1 |
| Finland | 18 |
| France | 49 |
| Germany | 18 |
| Ireland | 6 |
| Israel | 2 |
| Italy | 12 |
| Netherlands | 14 |
| New Zealand | 8 |
| Norway | 10 |
| Portugal | 3 |
| Switzerland | 17 |
| UK | 12 |
| US | 1 |
| Zimbabwe | 7 |
SA Radio charts:
| Capital 604 | 1 |
| Radio 5 | 1 |
| Radio 702 | 6 |
Songwriter Billy Steinberg wrote the track about his mother. Tom Kelly would alter the first verse and the song was offered to Anne Murray, but she turned it down. The demo they then presented to Lauper was a piano based track. Lauper changed the arrangement and her version would go on to sell over a million units in the US. The song was nominated for the Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female Grammy but lost out to Barbra Streisand’s ‘The Broadway Album’. In 1998, Phil Collins would see his cover get to 26 in the UK and chart in a handful of other European countries.
Video:
Artist link: Cyndi Lauper
SA Singles Charts 