TONIGHT YOU BELONG TO ME
PATIENCE AND PRUDENCE
SONGWRITER: PAUL STANLEY
COUNTRY: U. S. A.
ALBUM: TONIGHT YOU BELONG TO ME/A SMILE AND A RIBBON
LABEL: LIBERTY
GENRE: POP
YEAR: 1956
Patience Ann McIntyre(born August 15, 1942) and Prudence
Ann McIntyre(born July 12, 1945), known professionally as Patience and Prudence,
are two sisters who were a young vocal duo active from 1956 to 1964.
Patience and Prudence McIntyre were born in 1942 and
1945, respectively, in Los Angeles,
California. Their father,
Mark McIntyre was an orchestra leader, pianist, and songwriter who worked with Frank Sinatra in the 1940s. Patience was named after a woman who
authored poetry for The Ladies’
Home Journal in the 1920s,
and her younger sister Prudence’s name was selected as one that fit with her
older sister's. As youngsters, the girls studied piano and learned to read
music. In the summer of 1956, their father brought 11-year-old Prudence and
14-year-old Patience into the Liberty Records studio in Los Angeles.
The duo made a demonstration recording of the song, "Tonight You
Belong to Me," which
had been a hit for Gene Austin in 1927, and was written by Billy Rose and Lee David. Liberty signed them and immediately
released a recording of the girls singing the song as a commercial single (with
the B-side, "A Smile and a
Ribbon," a composition with
music by Mark McIntyre) and by September the song reached #4 on the Billboard charts and #28 in the UK Singles Chart, and was the biggest selling record put out by Liberty for two years. It sold over one million copies
and reached gold record status. It went on to become one of the best-selling
in-store singles in the United States in September 1956.
Their song "Gonna Get
Along Without Ya Now" reached
#11 on the Billboard chart and #22 in the UK; its B-side, "The Money Tree," reached #73 in the U.S. They appeared on the Perry Como Show on television in September of that same year. They also
released other singles such as "Little Wheel" and "All I Do Is
Dream of You" but failed to reach the charts again.
They released several other singles on the
Chattahoochee Records label, including a 1964 re-recording of "Tonight You
Belong to Me". In 1978, they reunited to appear on a Dick Clark television feature and stated that they both didn't want to be performers in
the first place and that their success was just an "accident". They
also stated that their father didn't want them to be in the spotlight for
personal reasons so he declined all other television and commercial offers
which prevented both of the girls from furthering their professional music
careers.
You belong to somebody new
But tonight you belong to me
Although (Although) we're apart
You're a part of my heart
And tonight you belong to me
Wait down by the stream
How sweet it will seem
Once more just to dream
In the moonlight
My honey I know (I know)
With the dawn that you will be gone
But tonight you belong to me
Wait down, wait down along the stream
How very, very sweet it will seem
Once more just to dream
In the silvery moonlight
My honey I know (I know)
With the dawn that you will be gone
But tonight you belong to me
Just to little old me.
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