I'd Really Love to See You Tonight explained

I'd Really Love to See You Tonight
Cover:I'd Really Love to See You Tonight.jpg
Caption:Big Tree Records 1976 single cover
Type:single
Artist:England Dan & John Ford Coley
Album:Nights Are Forever
B-Side:It's Not the Same
Released:May 1976
Studio:Studio by the Pond, Hendersonville, TN
Genre:Soft rock[1]
Length:2:39
Label:Big Tree (US)
Atlantic (UK)
Producer:Kyle Lehning
Prev Title:Simone
Prev Year:1972
Next Title:Nights Are Forever Without You
Next Year:1977

"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" is a song written by Parker McGee and recorded by England Dan & John Ford Coley from their 1976 album Nights Are Forever. It eventually peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks, behind Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" and No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart.[2] Billboard ranked it as the No. 21 song for 1976.[3] It also reached No. 26 on the UK Singles Chart.

Record World called it a "sparkling tune with its extraordinary melodic hook."[4]

Dan Seals, the "England Dan" half of the duo, re-recorded the song in 1995 in an acoustic country music style for the album In a Quiet Room.

Chart history

Weekly charts

Chart (1976)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[5] 25
Canada RPM Top Singles[6] 5
Canada RPM Adult Contemporary[7] 1
New Zealand (RIANZ)[8] 15
UK Singles Chart (OCC)[9] 26
US Billboard Hot 100[10] 2
US Billboard Easy Listening1
US Cash Box Top 100[11] 4

Year-end charts

Chart (1976)Rank
Canada[12] 67
US Billboard Hot 100[13] 21
US Billboard Easy Listening [14] 2
US Cash Box[15] 47

All-time charts

Other cover versions

The song appears in the Broadway musical Disaster!.

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Night Moves - Pop Music in the Late 70s. Don. Breithaupt. Jeff. Breithaupt. July 17, 2000. The Linen: Soft Rock. 112. St. Martin's Griffin. 978-0-312-19821-3.
  2. Book: Whitburn, Joel . Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Joel Whitburn . 2002 . Record Research . 86.
  3. [Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1976]
  4. Record World. May 29, 1976. 26. 2023-03-06. Single Picks.
  5. Web site: Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts) . australian-charts.com . 2016-10-20.
  6. Top Singles . RPM Magazine . 18 September 1976. 1 April 2020 .
  7. MOR Playlist . RPM Magazine . 4 September 1976. 1 April 2020 .
  8. Web site: The Official New Zealand Music Chart. THE OFFICIAL NZ MUSIC CHART.
  9. Web site: I'd Really Love to See You Tonight | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company. Official Charts.
  10. Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 -
  11. Web site: Cash Box Top 100 Singles, September 18, 1976 . July 12, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181020004225/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/19760918.html . October 20, 2018 . dead .
  12. Web site: Top Singles – Volume 26, No. 14 & 15, January 08 1977 . . . June 30, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160319222559/http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.5173a&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=u9874ano8k0c5b6bkp4r8qrbp3 . March 19, 2016 . dead .
  13. Web site: Top 100 Hits of 1976/Top 100 Songs of 1976 | Music Outfitters. www.musicoutfitters.com.
  14. Web site: Top 50 Adult Contemporary Hits of 1976 - 45cat. www.45cat.com.
  15. Web site: Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 25, 1976 . July 12, 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20181020004356/http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/70s_files/1976YESP.html . October 20, 2018 . dead .
  16. Billboard Hot 100 60th Anniversary Interactive Chart. Billboard. 10 December 2018.
  17. Reba McEntire Chart History: Hot Country Songs. Billboard. October 19, 2021.

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