Teach Me Tonight
Dinah Washington * Track #3 On This Is My Story: Volume Two
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Album This Is My Story: Volume Two
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Teach Me Tonight by Dinah Washington
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If Dinah is remembered as ‘Queen of the Blues’ more than of jazz, the warmth and sympathy she infuses into this standard shows that there is nothing necessarily conflicting in it. A smooth lightheartedness takes center stage, and (as Nadine Cohodas notes in Queen) “showed that the voice that gave li...
Teach Me Tonight Lyrics
Did you say I had a lot to learn?
Well, don't think I'm trying not to learn
Since this is the perfect spot to learn
Trying to find somebody to teach me tonight
We'll start with the A B C of it
Then we'll roll down to the X Y Z of it
Help me solve the mystery of it
Oh, come on and teach me tonight
Well the sky's a blackboard (and I don't mean jungle) 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
Should the teacher stand so near, my love?
Graduation's almost here, my love
Yeah, yeah teach me tonight
Well the sky's a blackboard, high above you
And if an astronaut zooms by
I'll reach and grab him real fast
Then write I love you a thousand times across the sky
One thing isn't very clear, my love
I know you're wondering how I switched that key, my love
Graduation's almost here, my love
Teach me
Teach me
Come on
And teach me tonight
Teach Me Tonight Q&A
Who wrote Teach Me Tonight's ?
Teach Me Tonight was written by Gene DePaul & Sammy Cahn.
What year was original song
It was published in 1953, but its earliest recordings (that of Janet Brace seemingly being the first) arrived the year after, in 1954.
Is it about sex
It certainly involves a good deal of playful teasing between two romantic partners. Within the metaphor — that of “teaching” one’s lover a different kind of alphabet, or using the night sky as a blackboard — “graduation” is probably the term closest to suggesting that degree of intimacy.