Let Me Love You Tonight
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"Let Me Love You Tonight" is a 1980 song by the American pop
and country-rock band Pure Prairie League
.
Taken as the first single from their 1980 album, Firin' Up
, "Let Me Love You Tonight" became the band's first (and, to date, only) song to enter the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100
chart, where it peaked at number ten during the summer of 1980. The song remained in the Top 40 for eleven weeks. The song also spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard
adult contemporary
chart. The lead vocalist for the band at the time was Vince Gill
, who would later become a very successful country music
singer in his own right. Noted saxophonist
David Sanborn
can also be heard on the track.
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
and country-rock band Pure Prairie League
Pure Prairie League
Pure Prairie League, sometimes abbreviated PPL, is an American country-rock band whose roots began between 1964 and 1969 in Waverly, Ohio with Craig Fuller, George Powell, Tom McGrail, Jim Caughlan and John David Call. In 1970 McGrail named the band after a 19th century temperance union mentioned...
.
Taken as the first single from their 1980 album, Firin' Up
Firin' Up
Firin' Up is the ninth studio album by American country rock band Pure Prairie League, released in 1980 . "Let Me Love You Tonight" is the band's biggest pop hit, peaking at number ten on the Billboard singles chart.-Track listing:...
, "Let Me Love You Tonight" became the band's first (and, to date, only) song to enter the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
chart, where it peaked at number ten during the summer of 1980. The song remained in the Top 40 for eleven weeks. The song also spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
adult contemporary
Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks
The Adult Contemporary chart is a weekly chart published in Billboard magazine that lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary and "lite-pop" radio stations in the United States...
chart. The lead vocalist for the band at the time was Vince Gill
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
, who would later become a very successful country music
Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
singer in his own right. Noted saxophonist
Saxophone
The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
David Sanborn
David Sanborn
David Sanborn is an American alto saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental pop and R&B. He released his first solo album Taking Off in 1975, but has been playing the saxophone since before he was in high school...
can also be heard on the track.