I just love this song, in a way it kind of reminds me of something George Harrison would've written with the ukelele part in it! Great song, great album!

My mum loves this one!! And I love it too. Great melody but very repetitive lyrics. It's still good. The track entered the UK charts at #34 today, only with downloads!!

Quoted from Sara

I just love this song, in a way it kind of reminds me of something George Harrison would've written with the ukelele part in it! Great song, great album!

Yeah, i think the same,, bit like Any Road or Devil & Deep Blue Sea (even though he didn't write that
one) but still George loved all that simple kinda thing. People critisize Macca for writing pretty simple
things like Dance Tonight but how simple could George get on Ding Dong, Ding Dong or John Lennon
on 'Love'. simple chords & lyrics.
Dance Tonight is so damn catchy!!, i keep singing it to myself & now i'm trying to play it
on my Ukelele! i think George would have loved Dance Tonight. That's the genius of Macca,
he always uses little twist's in his music (if you listen carefully!)

It's a great feel good song from Paul, the ukelele makes it unique & the video is cool as well

But guys it's not an ukelele! It's a mandolin!  

(remember the video...?)  

The song sucks period.

Yeah, I thought from the day this was released as a single that it was the worst possible choice Paul could make. In this way, people will still remember him as the guy from Mull Of Kintyre and We All Stand Together. Dance Tonight is a fine next song in that line. I presumed that Paul was eager to let the big audience hear something more adventurous, certainly as a single with a lot of airplay. Dance Tonight is the 2007 version of All Together Now.

Quoted from Bobber

Yeah, I thought from the day this was released as a single that I was the worst possible choice Paul could make. In this way, people will still remember him as the guy from Mull Of Kintyre and We All Stand Together. Dance Tonight is a fine next song in that line. I presumed that Paul was eager to let the big audience something more adventurous, certainly as a single with a lot of airplay. Dance Tonight is the 2007 version of All Together Now.

A girl in my office, who is late 20's Afro-Caribean, into r&b and urban, heard Dance Tonight on the ad and asked me if the song was on the album (duh!) It had sparked an interest in her. At the end of the day melody sells, and he's got me whistling the bloody thing.

Quoted from Kevin

[...]At the end of the day melody sells, and he's got me whistling the bloody thing.

That's it!   ... and it's an uptempo song some people could dance to ... night!

Quoted from raxo

That's it!   ... and it's an uptempo song some people could dance to ... night!

Heheheh yes it is funny and like Kevin said 'he's got me whistling the bloody thing'. I cannot see a better first single but the next one has to be Only mama knows.

It is classic ammo for the music critics to attack Macca with.

It is so simple, with non existent lyrics, yet the tune / hook goes and sticks itself in your brain whether you like it or not.

Quoted from maninthequeue

It is classic ammo for the music critics to attack Macca with.

I think he just dosen't care what critics think about his music now and hell, why should he.
Maybe he put it out to annoy them! but i love it sooooo much!

I think he does care what the critics think or he wouldnt be out there pimping the album so heavily.

I think the song is good. When I first heard it it was terrible, if you read the lyrics you'll never understand how a song like this was released as a lead single. But Paul rarely make songs like this, so much simple. If you look Beatles catalogue, the most simple lyrics were by John, just read Yer Blues, All You Need Is Love... Paul was always more ambitious. That's because I like him more than any other Beatle.

Kinda catchy!

Quoted from tkitna

I think he does care what the critics think or he wouldnt be out there pimping the album so heavily.

... because of the public and sales perhaps? Last one's sales were not as good but it'd got some nominations ... searching for a balance?

Quoted from raxo

... because of the public and sales perhaps? Last one's sales were not as good but it'd got some nominations ... searching for a balance?

He pimped 'Chaos' too with the TV specials and everything. Hell, I remember going to buy it at Coconuts and there was a cutout of Paul larger than life just as you walked in. I'm not getting your point here Raxo.

Quoted from tkitna

He pimped 'Chaos' too with the TV specials and everything. Hell, I remember going to buy it at Coconuts and there was a cutout of Paul larger than life just as you walked in. I'm not getting your point here Raxo.

I just think that he's pimping it because he want people to know it's out and to forget the news about the divorce ... and maybe he's trying to get good sales apart from nominations (CHAOS) ... so, maybe he's doing this more for the public that for the critics ... and to do this he has to go to the TV and radio stations, of course ... but the reasons could be diferent ... that's all ...

I still think Mccartney makes an album with his sights set on it being a complete commercial success and having a chart life.

I agree with Tkitna when about Paul 'caring what the critics think' but obviously he wants to sell a lot too.I think that he said once that the public was the best critics but we know how a PR he can be.I am not sure what to think.Both?

I love that song, but I've always been curious (excuse me if it's already been said in this thread),
was it record with Wings? I know that they played it live, and filmed a music video for it with Wings, but
Paul only released it on a solo album.

Edit: Read first post wrong, I meant Goodnight Tonight. Anyways wanna answer my questions anyways?

Great news! Dance Tonight debuted in the US at #69!!

Dance Tonight 8 places upper in the UK, is #26 now!!

Quoted from wingsman

Dance Tonight 8 places upper in the UK, is #26 now!!

That's great news, come on .. let's make it no 1!!

It's a long time since Paul's had a record that is climbing the charts  

DaveRam

It's a lightweight. But in a good way.

Bad news, people. Dance Tonight falls 26-52 in the UK charts. The only chance to climb again the charts it's with the 7" release which is gonna be released tomorrow Monday 9th.

It's not the best lyrics but the music is catchy and it gets stuck in your head and you whistle it and it makes you dancie and jumpie. So its a nice little tune. And i second what Andy Smith said about the mandoline-ukalele. It's kind of nice that Paulie at his age makes you jumpy and all...

And chartie-viewers: keep updating us

Quoted from wingsman

Bad news, people. Dance Tonight falls 26-52 in the UK charts. The only chance to climb again the charts it's with the 7" release which is gonna be released tomorrow Monday 9th.

Isn't it weird how the vinyl record was declared dead 15 years ago, but that the 7" single is now outliving the CD single?

Dance Tonight out of the Top 75 in the UK.  

Dance Tonight climb's from a 139 to 67 on the UK Single's chart , hope it's having a second wind and goes higher next week

DaveRam

Good news, but I don't know why is climbing the charts again... Now I wanna see Ever Present Past inside the Top 20!!

I don't think we'll get another single from MAF.

I think we will, maybe before the end of the year.

The "Only Mama Knows" single edit like the fashion in which he plays it live. If his management have any sense.

I was looking on Amazon and Dance Tonight audio cd was released 30th of July , which would maybe account for why it's climbing again as it's now avalible as a physical release and not just download .

DaveRam

I think there will be a few singles.  I've been collecting his picture discs for years.  I can't believe that the sell that well, but he must enjoy releasing them.  They are typically very thick, and not that I'd play them, but the look very cool.  Here's 'Dance' on Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/PAUL-McCAR.....QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

In Paul's webpage is confirmed: EVER PRESENT PAST is gonna be the 2nd single from MAF! The video was recorded a couple of weeks ago!

Bside?

Quoted from wingsman

In Paul's webpage is confirmed: EVER PRESENT PAST is gonna be the 2nd single from MAF! The video was recorded a couple of weeks ago!

I can see that selling well, its got brilliant single appeal!

I've always thought that. I mean when first news about the album came out, everywhere said that EPP was going to be the first single from the album. Certainly the single appeared very quickly in the US charts as an airplay-only single, but at the last moment it was confirmed that actually the main single from MAF was Dance Tonight. I was very dissapointed when I first listened DT. Meanwhile I was loving EPP so badly! But it's really good to see that EPP finally has its chance. But, with a million people having the album is quite hard to see many buying the EPP single. Let's see what they put in the B-side!

Dance Tonight is not like anything else on the album & i was worried when it came
out that people thought that was the way the album sounded. then nobody would buy it.
But i was wrong, the album's sold excellant. One or two people i spoke to heard DT
& didn't reckon much to it, but i said to them to check the rest of the album out.
I still think it was an odd choice as a single. Maybe EPP should have been the first single.
I think that track alone is classic Macca!

Quoted from Andy Smith

I think that track alone is classic Macca!

Sure! I love the "The things I think I did... I D.I.D. I did"! That part is fantastic!