I'd Really Love to See You Tonight

"I'd Really Love to See You Tonight" is a song written by Parker McGee and was a hit by England Dan & John Ford Coley from their 1976 album Nights Are Forever. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #1 on the Easy Listening chart.[1] Billboard ranked it as the No. 21 song for 1976.[2]

Dan Seals, the "England Dan" half of the duo, re-recorded the song in 1995 in an acoustic country music style.

Other cover versions[edit]

 * Reba McEntire and Jacky Ward covered the song in 1978 as part of a double-sided single with "Three Sheets in the Wind".
 * Ian McShane covered the song on his 1992 album From Both Sides Now.
 * Barry Manilow covered it on the 1996 album Summer of '78.
 * Charlie McGettigan and Paul Harrington covered it on the album Rock 'n' Roll Kids
 * Lillo Thomas covered the song on this 2010 album Come and Get It.

In popular culture[edit]

 * In the 1996 action thriller film The Long Kiss Goodnight starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson, Jackson's character hears the song on the car radio while driving and starts to sing the chorus as "I'm not talking 'bout the linens...", instead of "I'm not talking 'bout moving in", and Davis's character then promptly corrects hismondegreen.