Teach Me Tonight

Album

Single

Label

Abbott Records

Genre

Dance-pop

Composer(s)

Gene Depaul;Sammy Cahn

Entered Chart

Sep 29, 1954

Peak Date

Nov 24, 1954

Released

Unknown

Recorded

Unknown

Catalog #

Abbott 3001

B-Side

t's Love /

This standard was written by Gene De Paul (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics). The song combines the themes of school, stars and love as the singer asks for a lesson in affection. Many artists have recorded this song. The DeCastro Sisters were a Cuban trio who recorded it with Skip Martin's orchestra, and had the biggest hit with the song. Jo Stafford hit #15 with her version in 1955, and George Maharis charted at #25 in 1962. Other popular versions have been recorded by Al Jarreau, Dinah Washington, Diana Krall, Sarah Vaughan, Aretha Franklin and Anne Murray. Elliott Yamin performed it on American Idol in 2006.

Did you say (that) I've got a lot to learn 
 Well don't think I'm trying not to learn 
 Since this is the perfect spot to learn 
 Teach me tonight 
  
 Starting with the ABC of it 
 Getting right down to the XYZ of it 
 Help me solve the mystery of it 
 Teach me tonight 
  
 The sky's a blackboard high above you 
 And if a shooting star goes by 
 I'll use that star to write "I love you" 
 A thousand times across the sky 
  
 One thing isn't very clear my love 
 Teachers shouldn't stand so near my love 
 Graduation's almost here my love 
 You'd better teach me tonight 
  
 I've played loves scenes in a flick or two 
 And I've also met a chick or two 
 But I still can learn a trick or two 
 Hey teach me tonight 
  
 I who thought I knew the score of it 
 Kind of think I should know much more of it 
 Off the wall, the bed, the floor of it 
 Hey teach me tonight 
  
 The midnight hours come slowly creeping 
 When there's no one there but you 
 There must be more to life than sleeping 
 Single in a bed for two 
  
 What I need most is post graduate 
 What I feel is hard to articulate 
 If you want me to matriculate 
 You'd better teach me tonight 
  
 What do you get for lessons 
 Teach me - come on and teach me - teach me tonight