It is just after 3:00 a.m. and I was ready to finish my nightly chores and head up the 15 loooooonnnnngggg steps to my bed when I realized that I hadn’t done a music post! 😱 And so, lighting up yet one more cigarette, I went on a digging expedition through the archives and almost immediately came upon this one! I’ve only played it once, back in 2019, and it brings a smile to my face as I’m listening, even if it is 3:00 a.m. … I’m never too tired for Roberta Flack and Peabo Bryson!!!
Tonight, I Celebrate My Love is a romantic ballad written by lyricist Gerry Goffin with Michael Masser and recorded by Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack for their 1983 album of duets: Born to Love.
In the UK, the song would peak at number two in September 1983, affording both Bryson and Flack their alltime best UK chart showing. It was afforded further international success charting in Australia (number 10), Canada (number 4), Finland (number 13), Flemish Belgium (number 8), Ireland (number 5), the Netherlands (number 16), New Zealand (number 11), Norway (number 8), and South Africa (number 4). Interestingly, it did better in all those places than in the U.S., where it only reached #16!
Tonight I Celebrate My Love
Peabo Bryson, Roberta Flack
Tonight I celebrate my love for you
It seems the natural thing to do
Tonight no one’s gonna find us
We’ll leave the world behind us
When I make love to you
Tonight I celebrate my love for you
And hope that deep inside you’ll feel it, too
Tonight our spirits will be climbing
To a sky filled up with diamonds
When I make love to you, tonight
Tonight I celebrate my love for you
And that midnight sun is gonna come shining through
Tonight there’ll be no distance between us
What I want most to do, is to get close to you
Tonight
Tonight I celebrate my love for you
And soon this old world will seem brand new
Tonight we will both discover how friends turn into lovers
When I make love to you
Tonight I celebrate my love for you
And that midnight sun is gonna come shining through
Tonight there’ll be no distance between us
What I want most to do, is to get close to you
Tonight I celebrate my love for you
Tonight
Songwriters: Gerry Goffin / Michael Masser
Tonight I Celebrate My Love lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
Filosofa's Word 
Another oldie but beautiful song! ❤
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I love this one, and as I told Clive, if anybody ever looked at me the way Peabo looked at her, I would simply melt! I watched it twice last night, just because it made me smile! ❤
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😊 🥰
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News.
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Thanks, Ned!!!
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How shall I put this? I think maybe a simple ‘no’ will suffice.
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Oh Clive! But its sooo beautiful and romantic. Thats OK, go ahead and turn up your AC/DC, though playing them with candlelight flickering just doesn’t seem right. LOL!
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I listen to a lot more than AC/DC you know! But I tend not to go for vomit inducers 😉
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LOL! Yes, I know you listen to a wide variety, but that’s the band that popped in my head.
“Vomit inducer!” Pftttt! 🙂
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Each to their own! In case you hadn’t noticed, I really don’t like that one 🤣
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😮 Really??? I didn’t notice!!!
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That’s funny … I listened to it twice last night and didn’t puke a single time! 😉
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Each to their own 🤣
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🤣🤣
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🤣 Now why am I not surprised??? Sorry, my friend, but I played this one for moi! It’s something about that look on Peabo’s face … if anybody ever looked at me that way and sung those words to me … I would melt into a puddle!!! Perhaps you’ll like tomorrow’s better, but … I’m not sure. We’ll see!
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It was rather expected that I’d have that reaction, wasn’t it! But I’m glad you played one you like rather than for others. Fingers crossed (fairly loosely) for your next…
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Ha ha … yes, you should only loosely cross them so that it won’t be too painful when you have to separate them to applaud … or to flip me the bird! 🤣
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Been there. Liked it, commented. Much more to my taste 👍
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Saw. Glad. Thanks. 😊
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