"I Need Your Love Tonight" | ||||
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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 Victor | |||
Songwriter(s) | Sid Wayne, Bix Reichner | |||
Elvis Presley singles chronology | ||||
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"I Need Your Love Tonight" is a song written by Sid Wayne and Bix Reichner and recorded by Elvis Presley on June 10, 1958, in RCA Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. It was the second 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. 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.
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".