Take Me Home Tonight

Album: Can't Hold Back (1986)
Charted: 4
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  • Lyrics currently unavailable Writer/s: Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry, Michael David Leeson, Peter Benson Vale, Phillip Spector
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

Comments: 16

  • Bella7447mami from New York CityI love her. RIP Ronnie Spector. So cute, in the video Take me home tonight, was barely a pre-teen hearing it, and i love her so much, but i know GOD has her at peace. Shall smile each time i play it, or see the video. RIP
  • Kimberly from Bloomington IndianaI was 12 in 1977. Still love this song
  • Amiramie from Dallas, TxRoberta Elkins from Arlington, Tx-you may have been 20 and beautiful in 1977 but, unless you had a time machine, you did not hear this song on a camping trip with your boyfriend “Ed.” Maybe it was another kind of trip you were on. This song didn’t come out until 1986-9 years later!
  • Mark V from Puerto RicoMy 15 year old son told me he heard this song on the radio and it reminded him of me. I told myself I wouldn't cry.
  • Roberta Elkins from Arlington Texas In 1977 I was 20, beautiful and my boyfriend took me on our first camping trip. "Take Me Home Tonight" was playing. My intro to Eddie Money. All these years later I think of the Eddie I was dating in 77'. Excellent Song, happy memories. RIP to Both Eddie's
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn November 22, 1986, Eddie Money, with Ronnie Spector, performed "Take Me Home Tonight" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program, 'American Bandstand'...
    At the time the song was at #5 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, the week before it had peak at #4 {for 1 week} and it spent twenty weeks on the Top 100...
    Earlier in 1982 on September 14th it had reached #1 {for 2 weeks} on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart...
    Between 1978 and 1992 he had twenty-three records on the Top 100 chart, two* made the Top 10, besides "Take Me Home Tonight", his other Top 10 record was "Walk On Water", it peaked at #9 {for 1 week} on December 18th, 1988...
    Eddie Money, born Edward Joseph Mahoney, will celebrate his 69th birthday come next March 21st {2018}...
    * He just missed having two more Top 10 records when both "Baby Hold On" {1978} and "Peace In Our Time" {1990} peaked at #11...
    And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, also in 1986 there was another 'Take Me Home' record that made the Top 10, Phil Collins' "Take Me Home" peaked at #7 {for 3 weeks} on May 4th.
  • Rae from NjGreat song! One of Eddie Money's best! He really sang his heart out on it! Love it!
  • Tim from Northfield, MnSo that's who he was referring to with the "just like Ronnie sang" line. That has always interested me as to who Ronnie was and why that was done like it was.
  • Jessica from Alvin , TxLove the song.
  • Bill from Pensacola, FlRonnie Spector was married to Phil Spector, who is considered quite important inthe history of pop music production. (for you new folks) Some of his ideas of sound come through here of course.
    Ronnie Spector has a great voice, inspiring countless female singers after her.
  • Brian from Richmond , VaThis song is a timeless clasic that many in the younger generation are becoming hip to.

    When Ronnie Spector was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with her band the Ronettes, she gave props to Eddie Money. I thought that was way cool.

    I love Eddie Money's voice. This may be his best song.
  • Ed from Incognito, IlMy band opened for Eddie a few times. Cool guy. Doesn't drink anymore, but he still gets "out there" (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).
  • Don from San Antonio, TxI was a hardcore punk and I had to keep it secret that I liked this so much. The echo-ey vocals and the keys it was in was just haunting to me. I liked it so much I even bought Ronnie's album "Unfinished Business" at the same time this came out. The hit was "Who Can Sleep?" which was similar to this. I didn't like the rest of her album though, and I was sure I would. I never even heard the Eddie Money album in it's entirety, how is it? Ever heard "Trinidad"? That is beautiful.
  • Marilynn from Milwaukee, WiOops...correction...it was the Bradley Center, not the Riverside Theatre. M Mee
  • Marilynn from Milwaukee, WiWhen Eddie Money performed that song in concert in Milwaukee, WI in 2003 at the Riverside Theatre, he arranged (through the Classic Rock radio station) to have a local singer named Anjl Rodee get up on stage to sing Ronnie's part. It almost didn't happen because when Anjl went to climb on stage at the appointed time, a security guard tried to stop her, thinking she was just an over-zealous fan! - Marilynn Mee, Milwaukee, WI
  • Chris from Chicago, IlI like this one and Ronnie Spector is a cool chick!
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