Take Me Home Tonight (song)
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Take Me Home Tonight is a song by Eddie Money from the year 1986 , the Michael Leeson, Peter Vale, Ellie Greenwich , Jeff Barry and Phil Spector was written. It appeared on the album Can't Hold Back .
history
After its release on August 16, 1986, the rock song only became a hit in Moneys homeland, the United States, and reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song received little international attention and only made it into the charts in a few countries .
The song begins with an electric synth guitar and is later supported by the typical electric guitar. Originally the song was recorded in a duet with Ronnie Spector . Spector sang the chorus of Be My Baby (a hit by the Ronettes that Spector was the lead singer on) after Money sang "just like Ronnie sang". The song was only released with Eddie Money as the only artist, but Spector's part can still be heard on the song. About the creation of the song, Money says that it was inspired by an unknown person named "Garth", who was a childhood friend of a member of Moneys backing band. He always wanted to sleep on the roofs of other people's houses. Other sources say the song comments on producer Jacob Dooley, who was obsessed with a drunk girl in a bar. The girl should take him home and show him how to drink (alcohol), use drugs and smoke.
In 2011 the song was used as the title for a film of the same name .
Music video
In the black and white music video, Eddie Money starts out alone with a ladder and a folding chair on an empty stage. He plays the song for an absent audience, and short excerpts from Ronnie Spector are repeatedly shown in a make-up room. Neither of them are on stage together during the entire music video, only you see both of them in several small scenes in which Money sings on stage and Spector dances on a path that leads to the stage.
Cover versions
- 2010: Every Avenue and Juliet Simms
- 2010: Top model fur
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sources for chart placements: US , accessed on August 14, 2011.
- ^ Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight / Be My Baby. Retrieved December 28, 2018 .