Let Me Love You Tonight

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"Let Me Love You Tonight"
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Single by Pure Prairie League
from the album Firin' Up
B-side "Janny Lou"
ReleasedApril 27, 1980
Length2:47
Label Casablanca
Songwriter(s) George Greer, Jeff Wilson, Steve Woodard
Producer(s) John Ryan
Pure Prairie League singles chronology
"I'm Almost Ready"
(1980)		"Let Me Love You Tonight"
(1980)		"Still Right Here in My Heart"
(1981)

"Let Me Love You Tonight" is a 1980 song by the American country rock band Pure Prairie League. The lead vocalist for the band at the time was Vince Gill, who would later become a successful country music singer in his own right. Noted saxophonist David Sanborn is also on the track.

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Charts

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 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, where it peaked at number 10 during the summer of 1980, and remained in the top 40 for 11 weeks. [1] The song also spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. [2]

Chart history

Weekly charts

Chart (1980)Peak
position
Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) [3] 14
Canada Adult Contemporary ( RPM ) [4] 1
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 [5] 10
U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary [5] 1

Year-end charts

Chart (1980)Position
Canada Top Singles ( RPM ) [6] 97
US Top Pop Singles (Billboard) [7] 70

See also

References

  1. ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  2. ↑ Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
  3. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 0219a." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  4. ↑ "Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 0211." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  5. 1 2 "Let Me Love You Tonight (song by Pure Prairie League)". MusicVF.com. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  6. ↑ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 0272." RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 24 September 2025.
  7. ↑ "1980 Talent in Action – Year End Charts : Pop Singles". Billboard. Vol. 92, no. 51. December 20, 1980. p. TIA-10. Retrieved 5 April 2020.


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