(Last Night) I Didn't Get to Sleep at All by The 5th Dimension

Overview

Key: A♭ major · Chords used: 18 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Bridge → Verse → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Intro

• A♭ – Fm7 – Cm7 – G♭69
  I – vi7 – iii7 – bVII69

Verse 1

• A♭maj7 – Fm7 – Cm7 – Fm – Cm – D♭maj7 – E♭ – E♭sus4 – E♭ (×2)
  Imaj7 – vi7 – iii7 – vi – iii – IVmaj7 – V – Vsus4 – V
• Fm – Fm/E♭ – D♭maj7 – E♭7sus4 – A♭ – D♭/A♭ – A♭maj7
  vi – vi (bass E♭) – IVmaj7 – V7sus4 – I – IV⁶₄ – Imaj7

Bridge 1

• Cm7 – Fm7 – D♭ – E♭ – A♭ – Cm7 – Fm7 – G♭maj7 – E♭9sus4 – E♭7
  iii7 – vi7 – IV – V – I – iii7 – vi7 – bVIImaj7 – V9sus4 – V7

Verse 2

• A♭maj7 – Fm7 – Cm7 – Fm – Cm – D♭maj7 – E♭ – Fm – Fm/E♭ – D♭maj7 – B♭m7 – E♭7sus4 – A♭
  Imaj7 – vi7 – iii7 – vi – iii – IVmaj7 – V – vi – vi (bass E♭) – IVmaj7 – ii7 – V7sus4 – I

Bridge 2

Same chords as Bridge 1.

Verse 3

• A♭maj7 – Fm7 – Cm7 – Fm – Cm – D♭maj7 – E♭ – Fm – Fm/E♭ – D♭maj7 – B♭m7 – E♭7sus4
  Imaj7 – vi7 – iii7 – vi – iii – IVmaj7 – V – vi – vi (bass E♭) – IVmaj7 – ii7 – V7sus4

Outro

• A♭ – Fm7 – Cm7 – E♭ – E♭7sus4 (×4)
  I – vi7 – iii7 – V – V7sus4

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• G♭69 (bVII69) is borrowed from the parallel key, A♭ minor.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the McGill Billboard Project (Burgoyne, Wild & Fujinaga, 2011). Expert transcription by trained musicians (song 0265, CC0), via ChoCo.
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.