Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me) Explained

Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me)
Cover:Tonight_I'm_Yours_(Don't_Hurt_Me)_-_Rod_Stewart.jpg
Type:single
Artist:Rod Stewart
Album:Tonight I'm Yours
B-Side:Tora, Tora, Tora (Out With the Boys)
Released:2 October 1981 (UK)[1]
Recorded:1981
Genre:
Length:4:09
Label:Warner Bros.
Producer:Jim Cregan, Rod Stewart
Prev Title:Gi' Me Wings
Prev Year:1981
Next Title:Young Turks
Next Year:1981

"Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me)" is a song by Rod Stewart, the title track of his 1981 album Tonight I'm Yours. It was one of three singles released from the album. The song was the lead single internationally except for the United States, where it was the follow-up to "Young Turks."

Billboard called it an "uptempo, highly melodic outing" and praised Stewart's vocal and the song's hooks.[4] Record World said that "keyboard chimes and percolating percussion decorate the energetic dance beat."[5]

"Tonight I'm Yours" became an international Top 10 hit, peaking at number eight in the UK and number two in Canada. It reached the Top 20 in the U.S.

Personnel

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Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1981–1982)Peak
position
Australia (Kent Music Report)[7] 6
US Cash Box[8] 15

Year-end charts

Chart (1982)Rank
Australia (Kent Music Report)[9] [10] 55
Canada RPM Top Singles[11] 28
US Cash Box [12] 98

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Music Week. 30.
  2. Web site: Rod Stewart – Tonight I'm Yours . . . 10 June 2013.
  3. Web site: Bill . Lamb . Top 10 Rod Stewart Hit Songs . . . 24 June 2013.
  4. Billboard. January 23, 1982. 2023-01-21. 93. Top Single Picks.
  5. Record World. January 23, 1982. 1. 2023-03-02. Hits of the Week.
  6. Web site: Rod Stewart – Tonight I'm Yours (1981, WEA Pressing, Vinyl). .
  7. Billboard – Hits Of The World . Billboard. Nielsen Business Media. 94 . 2 . 16 January 1982 . 50 . 0006-2510.
  8. http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/80s_files/19820327.html Cash Box Top 100 Singles, March 27, 1982
  9. Web site: National Top 100 Singles for 1982 . . . 445 . 3 January 1983 . 22 January 2023 .
  10. Book: Kent, David. Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book, St Ives, N.S.W . 1993. 0-646-11917-6.
  11. Web site: Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada. collectionscanada.gc.ca. 17 July 2013.
  12. http://tropicalglen.com/Archives/80s_files/1982YESP.html Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 25, 1982