I'd Die to Be with You Tonight

"I'd Die to Be with You Tonight"
Single by Jimmy Barnes
from the album For the Working Class Man
B-side"Vision"
Released26 August 1985[1]
StudioRhinoceros
Length3:54
LabelMushroom
Songwriter(s)Chas Sandford
Producer(s)
  • Chas Sandford
  • Gary Gersh
Jimmy Barnes singles chronology
"Daylight"
(1985) 		"I'd Die to Be with You Tonight"
(1985) 		"Working Class Man"
(1985)

"I'd Die to Be with You Tonight" is a song by Australian rock musician, Jimmy Barnes. Released in August 1985 as the lead single from his second studio album, For the Working Class Man. The song peaked at number seven on the Australian Kent Music Report, becoming Barnes' first solo top ten single. Kim Carnes participates in the song on the harmony vocals.

The song was written by Chas Sandford. In his autobiography, Barnes claimed that Sandford was initially unwilling to part with the song, saying that he had already declined to give it to Don Henley because he was saving it for a solo album.[2]

The music video was filmed on the Pyrmont Bridge in 1985, before the Darling Harbour redevelopments.

Track listing

7" Single (K-9819)

  • Side A "I'd Die to Be with You Tonight" - 3:54
  • Side B "Vision" - 3:08

12" /Maxi (X 14248)

  • Side A "I'd Die to Be with You Tonight" (Extended)
  • Side B1 "Resurrection Shuffle"
  • Side B2 "Vision" - 3:08

Charts

References

  1. ^ "Kent Music Report No 581 – 26 August 1985 > Singles: New Releases". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 30 December 2020 – via Imgur.com.
  2. ^ Jimmy Barnes (2017). Working Class Man. HarperCollins. pp. 279–280. ISBN 978-1460752142.
  3. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 27. ISBN 0-646-11917-6. N.B. The Kent Report chart was licensed by ARIA between mid-1983 and 12 June 1988.
  4. ^ "Jimmy Barnes – I'd Die to Be with You Tonight". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Kent Music Report No 599 – 30 December 1985 > National Top 100 Singles for 1985". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 30 December 2020 – via Imgur.com.