B-side "On the Day" Format 7"
12"
CD Genre Soft Rock | Released September 1983 Recorded 1982 Length 4:50 | |
"Tender Is the Night" is a song by Jackson Browne released in 1983 as the second single from his album Lawyers in Love. The song peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100, spending 17 weeks on that chart after debuting at #79, #18 on the US Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and #24 on the US Adult Contemporary. Unlike the next single, "For a Rocker", it is less rock-oriented. It was also released as a single in Germany and the United Kingdom.
The song's B-side, "On the Day", is the second track on the album.
The music video for the song also included actress Daryl Hannah.
Reception
In his 1983 review of the Lawyers in Love album, Christopher Connelly calls the song "an outstanding bit of songcraft with a gutbucket bottom nicely set off by Craig Doerge's jaunty keyboard touches. Browne takes in the world of lovers with an appealing wistfulness."