my-server
← Wiki

Fun Tour

The Fun Tour was a concert tour by American recording artist Cyndi Lauper in support of her debut album She's So Unusual. It was her first major headlining tour, with over 90 dates in various cities across North America. The tour kicked off in Poughkeepsie, New York, on November 22, 1983, and ended in St. Paul, Minnesota, on December 9, 1984. Lauper also performed shows in Paris, London and Switzerland.

Background

The performance at the Summit in Houston in October 1984 was filmed for a planned home video release in 1985 which fell through; however, the promotional video for "Money Changes Everything" was taken from this footage. The show was also broadcast locally over the radio that evening. The show at The Palace in Hollywood in February 1984 was filmed and, along with performances by Madness and Ultravox, aired as a show called Rock of the 80s on Showtime. The New Year's Eve 1983 performance at the Ritz aired on MTV that evening as a New Year's Eve special.

Lauper was presented with a Canadian platinum award for her album She's So Unusual following her show on April 27, 1984 in Toronto. Billboard magazine described the award as a "world first".

Reception

Paul Grein reviewed the Bouvard Auditorium show on September 28, 1984 for Billboard magazine. He noted the show was "remarkably tough and aggressive" and that Lauper seemed "resistant" to being "typecast as America's new pop princess", though still clearly had a "wide appeal". He named the album's title track and its first three singles as the highlights of the show. He noted that the version of "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" performed as similar to the remix version produced by Arthur Baker. He felt that Lauper should "probably [...] drop" the "Betty Boop voice" to avoid becoming a novelty act, and also felt there was "too much mugging and posing in Lauper's act". Grein also did not like that the keyboardist was given a lead vocal spot in the middle of the show.

Set list

This set list was taken from the November 29, 1983 concert in Philadelphia, United States. It does not represent all shows throughout the tour.

  1. "She Bop"
  2. "When You Were Mine"
  3. "I'll Kiss You"
  4. "Money Changes Everything"
  5. "Time After Time"
  6. "Right Track Wrong Train"
  7. "He's So Unusual"
  8. "Yeah Yeah"
  9. "Witness"
  10. "I'm Gonna Be Strong"
  11. "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
  12. "What a Thrill"
  13. "Maybe He'll Know"

Tour dates

Box office score data

Band

  • Kenni Hairston – keyboard and vocals
  • Sandy Gennaro – drums
  • John K. – bass
  • John McCurry – guitar and vocals

References