We've Got Tonite

"We've Got Tonite" is a song written by American rock musician Bob Seger, from his album Stranger in Town (1978).

Seger overhauled "This Old House" into "We've Got Tonite" the day after seeing the film The Sting (1973) which features a conversation between the Robert Redford character and a woman he is attracted to, played by Dimitra Arliss, who says: "I don't even know you."

It's two in the morning and I don't know nobody," caused an emotional response in Seger, manifested in the overhauled song lyrics.

It also played in the background of Melissa Sue Anderson's television film Survival of Dana (1979), in a scene where Anderson's character was in Los Angeles visiting the home of one of her new friends and was sitting in a room with co-star Robert Carradine's "Donny Davis" character, with whom she was falling in love.

)[6] Since the death of his mother Charlotte, Seger has made a point of always including "We've Got Tonite" in his live setlist, as it was her favorite of his compositions.

[8] Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section Additional musicians Billboard described "We've Got Tonite" as a "melodic ballad featuring Seger's smokey and tender vocal" and said that the structure of the melody was similar to Rod Stewart's "Tonight's the Night".

[10] Record World said that "The drama builds beautifully and Seger's raspy vocals carry the message with ease.

[32] Easton would assert that it was the song choice which appealed to her, while allowing Rogers to be "a good singer with a distinctive voice" who she found "always helpful and co-operative" in the studio, debunking insider reports that the ten-day recording session for the track was a stormy one with Rogers overtly disliking Easton's high-pitched vocals.

Billboard said that the song "gets a full production treatment, building on the contrast between two such distinctive and familiar voices.

[35] But Dennis Hunt (Los Angeles Times) would prefer the Rogers/Easton take to the Seger original due to a "very appealing" "blend of sharply contrasting voices, his deep and hers very high," adding that "Rogers, never known for his vocal power, stretches to match Easton, [attaining] his finest vocal performance.

"[36] And AllMusic critic Joe Viglione would opine that Easton's "splendid voice reaching the high registers over Kenny's familiar monotone...really makes [the track] special.

"We've Got Tonight" played in the background of Melissa Sue Anderson's television film Survival of Dana (1979), in a scene where Anderson's character was in Los Angeles visiting the home of new friends and was in a room with co-star Robert Carradine's character Donny Davis, with whom she was falling in love.

5 hit in Italy in 1984; and in Czech as "Všímej si víc", recorded in 1983 by Věra Špinarová and Karel Černoch.