I Need Your Love Tonight

"I Need Your Love Tonight"
Single by Elvis Presley
from the album 50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong
A-side "A Fool Such as I"
Released March 10, 1959
Format 7", 45rpm
Recorded June 10, 1958, RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee
Genre Rock and roll
Label RCA
Writer(s) Sid Wayne, Bix Reichner
Elvis Presley singles chronology
"One Night"
(1958)
"I Need Your Love Tonight"
(1959)
"A Big Hunk o' Love"
(1959)

"I Need Your Love Tonight" is a song written by Sid Wayne and Bix Reichner[1] and recorded by Elvis Presley on June 10, 1958, in RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee.[2] It was the first of several single releases recorded at a final session conducted just prior to Presley leaving the US for Germany to serve in the United States Army; he would not return to a recording studio until the spring of 1960.

The song reached number four on the Billboard pop singles chart in 1959.[3] Released as a double A-side with "A Fool Such as I", the song reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in May 1959 for five weeks.[1]

In popular culture

In 1985, Alvin and the Chipmunks recorded a version titled "I Need That Gold Tonight" for international versions of the Alvin and the Chipmunks episode "The Gold of My Dreams".

References

  1. 1 2 Rice, Jo (1982). The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits (1st ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 43. ISBN 0-85112-250-7.
  2. "I Need Your Love Tonight : by Elvis Presley : Elvis Australia : Official Elvis Presley Fan Club". Lyrics.elvispresley.com.au. Retrieved 2014-04-04.
  3. "Sitemap". Elvis.com. Retrieved 2014-04-04.

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