Patti Smith – Because the Night
Patti Smith was the leader of the group that shares her name the Patti Smith Group. They signed in 1975 to Arista Records. Because the Night was from their second album Easter, their most commercially successful album partly due to this top 20 single.
At the same time the group was recording Easter, Bruce Springsteen was working on his album Darkness at the Edge of Town. Springsteen wrote a couple of songs in the style of the Patti Smith Group. Smith reworked his composition of this song so that it came from the female point of view and not the working man view that Springsteen was working on.
Springsteen never released the song on a studio album, but he did work it into his tour and a live version appeared on Live/1975–85.