Home / Music / Because the Night became Patti Smith's signature singleMusic linernotes album music patti-smithBecause the Night became Patti Smith's signature single‘Because the Night,’ co-written with Bruce Springsteen, reached No. 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became Patti Smith’s biggest hit. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesClive Davis saw Patti Smith at CBGB and offered her a seven-album dealPatti Smith's 'Easter' came out on Arista RecordsEaster moved Patti Smith's punk-poetry toward a wider rock audiencePatti Smith's Horses was recorded at Electric Lady and released in fall 1975Allen Lanier and Tom Verlaine guest on Patti Smith's HorsesExplorePrince Nikolai Galitzin commissioned Beethoven's late string quartetsCount Razumovsky requested Russian themes in his Beethoven commissionLenny Kaye compiled the Nuggets compilation before joining Patti SmithFrancis Falceto compiled the Éthiopiques seriesTerry Riley played every instrument on A Rainbow in Curved AirPrevious Bryter Layter sold almost nothing on release — like every Nick Drake albumNext Allen Lanier and Tom Verlaine guest on Patti Smith's Horses