Elvis Presley – Tonight Is So Right For Love

About The Song

“Tonight Is So Right for Love” is a movie song. It was based on “Barcarole” (from The Adventures of Hoffmann) by Jacques Offenbach. Americans Sid Wayne and Abner Silver were credited as originators.

Elvis Presley performed the song in the Paramount film G.I. Blues. Tulsa MacLean (Presley) sang it to Lili (Juliet Prowse) in a cafe. (Video below)

He recorded the song at RCA Studios, Hollywood, on April 27, 1960. It was released on the LP G.I. Blues (RCA Victor LSP 2256 (stereo) and RCA Victor LPM 2256 (mono)) in 1960.  The producer was Joseph Lilley.

For copyright reasons, the song’s title “Tonight Is So Right for Love” was replaced with “Tonight’s All Right for Love” on the European version of the soundtrack album and film.

Video

Lyric

Hold me tight
The moon’s so bright
Tonight is so right for love

Now’s the time to say
You’re the only one
Tonight is so right for love

One by one the stars appear
They twinkle in your eyes
Who’d believe that we’d be here
So near to paradise

This could be the kiss
To unlock heaven’s door
That magic hour of bliss
That we both waited for
I love more and more

Oh’ we could fly right up to the sky
The things we’ve been dreaming of
And how real they would seem
A midsummernight’s dream
Can’t you see that tonight’s so right for love

And how real they would seem
A midsummernight’s dream
Can’t you see that tonight’s so right for love

Hold me tight
The moon’s so bright
Tonight is so right for love

Guitar chord

Intro  C G7 | C G7 | C G7 | C G7
 
C    C7 C     C7
Hold me tight
    G7
The moon is so bright
  G     G7    Dm        C     C G7 | C G7
Tonight is so right for love
 
C  C7 C        C
Now's the time
   G             G7
to say you'll be mine
  G     G7    Dm        C    C G7 | C G7
Tonight is so right for love
 
 
C       Am         G7      Dm
One by  one,   the stars appear
G7            Dm      C     C G7 | C G7
 They twinkle in your eyes
C       Am         G7   Dm
Who'd believe that we'd be here
G7          Dm  C    C G7 | C G7
 So near to paradise
 
C                 C7   C7
This could be the kiss
     C    C7       F    F
To unlock heaven's door
F          D       D7
That magic hour of bliss
        D           G   G
That we both waited for
G  Em     Em  G7     G7  G7   G
I  love,  you more,  and more'ohh
 
 
C  C7     C
Oh-oh' we could fly 
      G7
right up  to the sky
   Dm                G7  G6   Em  A
do things we've been dreaming of
Dm        Fmaj7      G7      C    C Am G
  And how real  they would seem
G       G7            C C7 C   C
  A mid-summernight's dreammm
Dm          Fmaj7      C       C
  Can't you see that tonight's 
   Dm     G7  C    C Am F | C Am F | Em Em7 F | Em A
so right, for love
 
 
Dm        Fmaj7      G7      C    C Am G
  And how real  they would seem
G       G7            C C7 C  C
  A mid-summernight's dreammm
Dm          Fmaj7      C       C
  Can't you see that tonight's 
   Dm     G7  C    C Am F | C Am F | Em Em7 F | C G7 | C G7
so right, for love
 
OUTRO (final 2 chords (marked !) single downstrums to finish off song)
 
C
Hold me tight
    G7
The moon's so bright
D7
Tonight,
      G7     G7
is so right,
G7  C     C C C G C
for love        ! !
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