I'd Really Love to See You Tonight

"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"
Big Tree Records 1976 single cover
Single by England Dan & John Ford Coley
from the album Nights Are Forever
B-side"It's Not the Same"
ReleasedMay 1976
StudioStudio by the Pond, Hendersonville, TN
GenreSoft rock[1]
Length2:39
LabelBig Tree (US)
Atlantic (UK)
Songwriter(s)Parker McGee
Producer(s)Kyle Lehning
England Dan & John Ford Coley singles chronology
"Simone"
(1972)
"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight"
(1976)
"Nights Are Forever Without You"
(1977)

"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" is a song written by Parker McGee and recorded by England Dan & John Ford Coley from their 1976 album Nights Are Forever. It eventually peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for two weeks, behind Wild Cherry's "Play That Funky Music" and No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart.[2] Billboard ranked it as the No. 21 song for 1976.[3] It also reached No. 26 on the UK Singles Chart.

Record World called it a "sparkling tune with its extraordinary melodic hook."[4]

Dan Seals, the "England Dan" half of the duo, re-recorded the song in 1995 in an acoustic country music style for the album In a Quiet Room.

  1. ^ Breithaupt, Don; Breithaupt, Jeff (July 17, 2000). "The Linen: Soft Rock". Night Moves - Pop Music in the Late 70s. St. Martin's Griffin. p. 112. ISBN 978-0-312-19821-3.
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 86.
  3. ^ Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1976
  4. ^ "Single Picks" (PDF). Record World. May 29, 1976. p. 26. Retrieved 2023-03-06.