It was released in August as the lead single from his album Can't Hold Back. The song's chorus interpolates the Ronettes ' hit " Be My Baby ", with original vocalist Ronnie Spector reprising her role. The song reached number four on the Billboard Hot on November 15, , and number one on the Album Rock Tracks chart; outside the U. Alongside its album, "Take Me Home Tonight" helped revive Money's career after a period of declining sales.
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He leered and winked, and moved strangely, as if dodging invisible gnats. With his hands, he committed all the notorious crimes of the rhythm-challenged—his fingers pointing, snapping, or else balled into a fist, punching the air. His hands found their most comfortable home on the microphone, which he often appeared to be strangling. All of this is to say that Money, who was born Edward Mahoney, in Brooklyn, and grew up on Long Island, was an unlikely pop star. He was the son and grandson of New York City police officers, and was a police trainee himself after high school before moving to California, where, in , he charted two Top 40 singles under the management of the legendary promoter Bill Graham. In interviews during recent years, he would talk about even his lowest moments—vodka, cocaine—with a kind of humble good nature. Speaking last year with Dan Rather , he found the bright side of a fentanyl overdose, in the early nineteen-eighties, that put him in a coma and left him, for several months, needing a walker to get around.
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See the gallery. Title: Take Me Home Tonight It's the late s, when Wall Street is riding high, and it seems as if the entire country is cashing in on the bumper profits.