"Give Me Tonight" is a 1984 song released as a single by Shannon

Shannon (singer)

Shannon is an American singer. She is best known for her 1983 million-selling record, "Let the Music Play". The record re-defined the electro funk sound that would eventually be called freestyle music.-Biography:...

, an American

United States

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 R&B and dance

Dance music

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 artist. Released as the follow-up single to her smash debut single, "Let the Music Play," "Give Me Tonight" was not as successful as its predecessor on the Billboard Hot 100

Billboard Hot 100

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, where it peaked at #46. It did, however, receive the same enthusiastic response in the dance clubs as did her previous single, hitting the top spot on the Hot Dance Club Play

Hot Dance Club Play

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 chart in March 1984 and remaining there for two weeks. It also was a significant Urban

Urban contemporary

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 hit, reaching #6 on the American R&B chart. Internationally, the song peaked at #24 on the UK singles chart

UK Singles Chart

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.

In 2000 Hex Hector

Hex Hector

Hex Hector , is an American dance remixer. He won a Grammy in 2001 for "Best Remixer".-Biography:Hector was born in in Manhattan, New York, of a Puerto Rican mother and Cuban father, and was raised in the Washington Heights neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan...

 remixed the song and the mixes were called the 'Give Me Tonight (2000 A.D. Mixes)'

Other versions

• In 1995 Leila K
  Leila K
  Laila El Khalifi better known by her stage name Leila K, is a Swedish Eurodance singer and former rapper of Moroccan descent.-Biography:...
  
   released the song "Electric
  Electric (Leila K song)
  "Electric" is a song performed by Leila K. The song was released as a single in late 1995 and later included on the 1996 album Manic Panic. The chorus is sung by Jessica Folcker....
  
  ." The chorus (sung by Jessica Folcker
  Jessica Folcker
  Jessica Folcker born , is a Swedish singer.-Biography:Folcker was born as Jessica Elisabeth Angelique Folcker in Täby, a Stockholm suburb, on . Her mother is Swedish and her father is from Senegal....
  
  ) has the same melody as "Give Me Tonight". Chris Barbosa
  Chris Barbosa
  Chris Barbosa is a producer from New York who redefined electro funk as Latin freestyle in the early 1980s with Shannon's "Let the Music Play".- Early career :...
  
   and Ed Chisolm share songwriting credits together with Denniz PoP
  Denniz Pop
  Dag Krister Volle , better known under the artistic name Denniz Pop , was a Swedish DJ, music producer and songwriter....
  
  , Max Martin
  Max Martin
  Martin Karl Sandberg, known professionally as Max Martin, is a Swedish music producer and songwriter. Raised in Stenhamra, a suburb of Stockholm, Sweden, he broke through as a producer and songwriter in the mid to late 1990s after crafting a string of hits for pop artists like the Backstreet Boys,...
  
  , Herbie Crichlow
  Herbie Crichlow
  Herbie Crichlow is a 4-time ASCAP-awarded English music producer and songwriter. Born in England, raised in Barbados. He is Best known for his Multi Diamond, Platinum and Gold awarded works. He is also known for his penned collaborations with Max Martin , RedOne, Grammy award winner David Franks...
  
   and Leila K
  Leila K
  Laila El Khalifi better known by her stage name Leila K, is a Swedish Eurodance singer and former rapper of Moroccan descent.-Biography:...
  
  .

This song has a nearly identical drum machine

Drum machine

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 pattern as the original version of Exposé

Exposé (band)

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's later song "Point of No Return

Point of No Return (Exposé song)

"Point of No Return" is a single by the female dance-pop trio Exposé. Written and produced by Lewis Martineé, the single was originally released in 1985 with Alejandra Lorenzo as the lead singer...

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• In 2006, a (demo) goth-rock version by Nyromantisk (http://www.myspace.com/nyromantiskgoth)