Songoftheday 10/26/12 - I know it's late I know you're weary, I know your plans don't include me...

Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton - "We've Got Tonight"
from the album We've Got Tonight (1983)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #6 (three weeks)
Weeks in the top-40: 15

Today's Song of the Day is by the superstar pairing of country-pop singer Kenny Rogers and Scottish-born ingenue Sheena Easton. Rogers was just coming off of his feature film Six Pack, and a companion (non-soundtrack) album that had his top-40 hit from the movie, "Love Will Turn You Around". Sheena started off 1982 with a couple of top-40 hits like the beautiful "When He Shines", but her followup album, Money, Madness, and Music, was a relative disappointment, even with such amazing performances like "I Wouldn't Beg For Water".

In 1983, Rogers released We've Got Tonight, his final album on Liberty Records. The first single, the title track, was a remake of the Bob Seger hit from 1978 that made it to #13 on the pop singles chart.

What Rogers and Sheena did was move the song to a more adult-pop place, with both their "epic" voices in full gear, with the help of David Foster producing...

"We've Got Tonight" became Kenny's eleventh #1 country single, as well as making it to the runner-up spot on the adult-contemporary (soft-rock) chart, and top-10 on the pop chart. They also made the top-5 in Canada, and even reached the top-40 in England.

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In 1987, British singer Elkie Brooks had a minor hit with the song, peaking at #69...

Irish singer Ronan Keating of the vocal group Boyzone recorded a duet of the track with Welsh singer Lulu, and took the song to #4 on the British chart, and top 10 in Ireland, Germany, and Austria...

American Idol winner Philip Phillips performed the song on the show when he made the top-3, and the studio version of that hit the US chart at #97...

Finally, here's Kenny along with Dolly Parton duetting live in 1985, and brought it back to the country...

Up tomorrow: she said he was the one.