Take Me Home Tonight (song)
Take Me Home Tonight is a song by Eddie Money from 1986, which was written by Michael Leeson, Peter Vale, Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and Phil Spector. It appeared on the album Can not Hold Back.
History
After his release on 16 August 1986, the rock track was only in Money's home, the United States a hit and reached the Billboard Hot 100 ranked 4th International found the song received little attention and managed to only a few countries in the charts.
The song begins with an electrical Synthgitarre and is supported later by the typical electric guitar. Originally, the song was recorded in a duet with Ronnie Spector. Spector singing the chorus of Hit Ronettes Be My Baby ( where Spector was the lead singer ) after Money singing " just like Ronnie sang ." However, the song was released only as a single performer Eddie Money, yet can still be heard on the song Spector's part. On the origin of the song says Money that he was from an unknown person named " Garth ", which in childhood, a friend of a member of Money's backing band, was inspired. He always wanted to sleep on the roofs of the houses of other people. Other sources say that the song takes a position on producer Jacob Dooley, who was possessed by a drunk girl in a bar. The girl should take him to her homecoming and show how to drink (alcohol), takes drugs and smokes.
2011, the song was used as the title for a film of the same name.
Music Video
In black and white music video you can see Eddie Money at the beginning alone with a ladder and a folding chair on an empty stage. He plays the song for an absent audience, while short clips of Ronnie Spector will be shown again and again room in a make-up. Both are throughout the music video never on stage together, only you can see both in several small scenes where Money sings on stage and Spector on a path that leads to the stage, dancing.
Cover versions
- 2010: Every Avenue and Juliet Simms