Dance With Me

Album: Let There Be Music (1975)
Charted: 6
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  • Dance with me, I want to be your partner
    Can't you see the music is just starting?
    Night is falling, and I am falling
    Dance with me

    Fantasy could never be so giving
    I feel free, I hope that you are willing
    Pick the beat up, and kick your feet up
    Dance with me

    Let it lift you off the ground
    Starry eyes, and love is all around us
    I can take you where you want to go

    Dance with me, I want to be your partner
    Can't you see the music is just starting?
    Night is falling, and I am falling
    Dance with me

    Let it lift you off the ground
    Starry eyes, and love is all around us
    I can take you if you want to go

    Dance with me, I want to be your partner
    Can't you see the music is just starting?
    Night is falling, and I am falling
    Dance with me Writer/s: Johanna Hall, John J Hall
    Publisher: Songtrust Ave, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 13

  • Bunny from New EnglandHeard this tonight on the radio. My heart instantly melted. I miss how deeply I once believed “love would conquer all”. This song brings me back there.
  • Mark from Massachusetts I had a friend in the 80s who claimed he was a minor at the time and wasn’t credited for the lyrics but that he wrote the song.

    I don’t know if it’s true or not but every time I hear it I think of my friend Steve.
  • Laura AshworthLove this song, and it has toes to another great favorite Dancing in the Moonlight, the most feel good song ever written!
  • Tim from NebraskaThe line "Night is falling, and I am falling" in the lyrics above is incorrect. And no, it's not "Night is falling, and I am calling" either. Actually, according to the sheet music, the correct lyric is "Night is calling, and I am falling."
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn July 4th 1975, Orleans performed "Dance With Me" on the NBC-TV program 'The Midnight Special'...
    Nine days later on July 13th, 1975 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #89; and on October 12th it peaked at #6 (for 1 week) and spent 18 weeks on the Top 100...
    It also reached #6 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary Tracks chart...
    Between 1975 and 1979 the quintet had five Top 100 records; with two making the Top 10, their other Top 10 record was "Still the One", it peaked at #5 and also spent 18 weeks on the chart...
    They group just missed have a third Top 10 record when "Love Takes Time" peaked at #11 (for 1 week) on May 20th, 1979.
  • Dave from Wheaton, IlRIP, Larry Hoppen (Orleans' lead singer).
  • Ken from Pensacola Beach, FlJohn and Johanna, wherever you are, this song has given me great joy for at least forty years. I loved it when I was a kid longing to skate hand-in-hand with a certain girl at Tibby's Roller Rink in 1975, and I love it still.
  • Bruce from San Jose, CaA romantic song...ah yes!!!!

    Sing this softly into any girl's ear at a dance, and see how she'll melt!
  • Bill from Pensacola, Flthe solo on this great song features a Melodica, a small keyboard that is played by blowing into a tube. Not too many people used such a thing, and it might just be the biggest hit to ever feature one.
    There is a fantastic video of these guys playing this song on the Midnight Special DVD's. It really shows the complexities of this beautiful song and the harmonies of this wonderful group.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyThree completely different versions of records titled "Dance With Me" have charted. In 1978 Peter Brown's version peaked at #8, in 1965 The Mojo Men reached #61 with their version, and in 1959 The Drifters' version topped out at #15!!! {The Drifters' song is a super great song}
  • Carrie from Roanoke, VaYou know, the lead does sound a lot like Peter Cetera. Maybe that's one reason I like this song so much!
  • Adrian from Johor Bahru, MalaysiaOften mistaken for a Chicago song especially the vocals of one of the leads sounds like Peter Cetera.
  • Eric from Mentor, OhI really love this song and found it abain after Shaw/Blades [Tommy Shaw of Styx and Jack Blades of Night Ranger] recorded a version on the 2007 album "Influence." Shaw plays the mandolin like nobody's business.
    I sing this to my 4-year old daughter all the time. Beautiful.
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