Right Now (Herbie Mann song)

"Right Now" is an uptempo 1962 jazz/pop song with music by Herbie Mann and lyrics by Carl Sigman. As a jazz instrumental, it was the title track of a 1962 bossa nova-style album by Mann. Later that same year, with lyrics by Sigman, the song was popularised by jazz singer Mel Tormé on his album Comin' Home Baby!

It has since been covered in a variety of pop styles including recordings by The Creatures (1983) and the Pussycat Dolls (2005).

Selective list of recorded versions

• 1962 Herbie Mann — jazz instrumental on the album Right Now
• 1962 Mel Tormé — jazz vocal version on the album Comin' Home Baby!
• 1969 Salena Jones — on the album The Moment of Truth
• 1983 The Creatures — U.K. single, also on the U.K. album Feast
• 2005 The Pussycat Dolls — on the hit album PCD
• 2008 Leon Jackson — on the hit album Right Now

Pussycat Dolls version

"Right Now"
Song

A cover version of "Right Now" appears on PCD, the 2005 debut album for The Pussycat Dolls. It was released on the 23 January 2007 via iTunes as a digital downloadable single; however, this is not an official single release by The Dolls. "Right Now" is the first promotional single they have released endorsing a product or show. As of February 2007 "Right Now" is being used as the alternate open & bumper theme to the NBA on ABC in the United States. For the NBA version the lyrics were slightly reworked (possibly by The Dolls' lead singer Nicole Scherzinger).

Before it started on September 24 2006, ABC used this song to promote the first episode, "Listen to the Rain on the Roof", of the third season of Desperate Housewives.