I'd Die to Be with You Tonight

"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"
Released	26 August 1985
Studio	Rhinoceros
Length	3:54
Label	Mushroom
Songwriter	Chas Sandford
Producers	Chas Sandford; Gary Gersh;
Jimmy Barnes singles chronology

"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

Weekly charts

Chart (1985)	Peak position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[3]	7
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)^[4]	16

Year-end charts

Chart (1985)	Position
Australia (Kent Music Report)^[5]	26

References

^ "Kent Music Report No 581 – 26 August 1985 > Singles: New Releases". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 30 December 2020 – via Imgur.com.
^ Jimmy Barnes (2017). Working Class Man. HarperCollins. pp. 279–280. ISBN 978-1460752142.
^ 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.
^ "Jimmy Barnes – I'd Die to Be with You Tonight". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
^ "Kent Music Report No 599 – 30 December 1985 > National Top 100 Singles for 1985". Kent Music Report. Retrieved 30 December 2020 – via Imgur.com.

[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.

[newzealand-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.

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v t e Jimmy Barnes
Studio albums	Bodyswerve For the Working Class Man/Jimmy Barnes Freight Train Heart Two Fires Soul Deep Heat Flesh and Wood Psyclone Love and Fear Soul Deeper... Songs from the Deep South Double Happiness Out in the Blue The Rhythm and the Blues Rage and Ruin 30:30 Hindsight Soul Searchin' Och Aye the G'nu My Criminal Record Flesh and Blood Blue Christmas Defiant
Live albums	Barnestorming Raw Modus Operandi
Compilations	Barnes Hits Anthology Best of the Soul Years
Memoirs	Working Class Boy Working Class Man
Films	Working Class Boy Working Class Boy (soundtrack)
Singles	"No Second Prize" "Promise Me You'll Call" "Daylight" "I'd Die to Be with You Tonight" "Working Class Man" "Ride the Night Away" "Good Times" "Too Much Ain't Enough Love" "Driving Wheels" "I'm Still on Your Side" "Waitin' for the Heartache" "When a Man Loves a Woman" "Last Frontier" "Lay Down Your Guns" "Let's Make It Last All Night" "Little Darling" "When Your Love Is Gone" "I Gotcha" "When Something Is Wrong with My Baby" "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" "(Simply) The Best" "Sweat It Out" "Stand Up" "Stone Cold" "Right by Your Side" "The Weight" "Still Got a Long Way to Go" "Change of Heart" "Lover Lover" "Sit on My Knee" "Gonna Take Some Time" "Bird on the Wire" "Shutting Down Our Town"
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