Song · Eddie Money
“Take Me Home Tonight” by Eddie Money
From the album Can’t Hold Back (1986)
“Take Me Home Tonight” by Eddie Money appears on 53 radio countdowns from 18 stations between 2002 and 2026. It was first released in 1986 on the album Can’t Hold Back. Its best result is #30 on the 97 Rock N Roll 500 (2021). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #317 classic rock song of all time.
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Eddie Money picked "Take Me Home Tonight" as the lead single from Can't Hold Back in August 1986, and he had an ace up his sleeve: the chorus borrows from the Ronettes' 1963 hit "Be My Baby", and Ronnie Spector herself steps in to sing her old part against Money's rasp. Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector share the songwriting with Mike Leeson and Peter Vale.
Richie Zito co-produced and co-arranged it with Money, and Scott Litt joined them on the mix. It reached number four on the Hot 100, topped the Album Rock Tracks chart, earned a Grammy nod in the Best Male Rock Vocal Performance category and became Money's biggest American hit. Along with the album, it helped revive a career whose sales had been sliding, and it got Spector touring and recording again after years off.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
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