"All Cried Out" is a song recorded by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam

Lisa Lisa and her band Cult Jam were an urban contemporary band and one of first freestyle music groups to emerge from New York City in the 1980s. Cult Jam consisted of guitarist/bassist Alex "Spanador" Moseley, and drummer/keyboardist Mike Hughes...

 that appeared on their 1985 album Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force

Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force

Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force is a 1985 album by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam in collaboration with the band/production team Full Force. It is best known for the lead tracks "I Wonder If I Take You Home", "Can You Feel the Beat," and "All Cried Out." The third of these hits also features Full...

. The song hit number eight on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

 chart in October 1986. The song was a major hit on the R&B singles chart, peaking at number three. On the Adult Contemporary chart, it reached number twelve.

Allure version

"All Cried Out" was the second single released from Allure's

Allure (group)

Allure is a New York-based R&B girl group that formed in the early 1990s as a quartet, now a trio. Original members were Alia Davis, Linnie Belcher, Lalisha McClean and Akissa Mendez.-Career:...

 self-titled debut album

Allure (album)

Allure was the first album by the band Allure released in 1997. Allure's debut had the mixed blessing of being the first album on Mariah Carey's label, Crave. Carey's certainly helped Allure to line up celebrity collaborators, from Nas and L.L. Cool J to Q-Tip, Carey and Dickie Fung.- Track listing...

. It was a cover of Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam's 1986 hit and featured 112

112 (band)

112 is an American R&B quartet from Atlanta, Georgia. Formerly artists on Diddy's Bad Boy Records, the group signed to the Def Soul roster in 2002. They had great success in the late 1990s and early 2000s with hits such as "Only You", "Anywhere" and "Peaches & Cream"...

. The song was produced by Cory Rooney

Cory Rooney

Cory Rooney is an American songwriter, record producer, and C.E.O. of Cory Rooney Group. He has written, produced, and developed many hits and careers for artists such as Mariah Carey, Mary J...

, Walter Afanasieff

Walter Afanasieff

Walter Afanasieff is a multiple Grammy-award-winning record producer and songwriter. He is best known for his long association with Mariah Carey, for whom he was producer and co-writer for several years, beginning in 1990...

 and Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey

Mariah Carey is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. She made her recording debut with the release of her eponymous studio album in 1990, under the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola, whom she later married in 1993...

 for Carey's short-lived Crave Records

Crave Records

Crave Records was a record label under Sony Music Entertainment founded by Mariah Carey in February 1997, and shut down in July 1998. Groups signed to the label included Eurodance group DJ Company, pop trio Jakaranda, female R&B quartet Allure, who released a self-titled album featuring the hit...

.

Released as the follow-up to their successful first single "Head Over Heels" (#35 in the U.S.), "All Cried Out" became the groups biggest hit and outperformed the original on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...

, peaking at No. 4 during the week of November 22, 1997. Less than three months after it's release, the single was certified gold for sales of 500,000 copies and it ultimately spent two years on the Billboard Year-End charts

Billboard Year-End

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, reaching No. 43 on the 1997 chart and No. 84 on the 1998 chart.

Single track listing

1. "All Cried Out" (Radio Edit)- 3:38
2. "All Cried Out" (Radio Mix)- 4:44
3. "All Cried Out" (Dub Mix)- 7:49
4. "All Cried Out" (Main Club Pass)- 10:50

Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam version

Chart (1986)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	8
U.S. Billboard Hot Black Singles Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...	3
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...	12

Allure version

Chart (1997)	Peak position
Billboard Hot 100	4
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	9