"Teach Me Tonight" is a popular song with music by Gene de Paul and lyrics by Sammy Cahn, published in 1953. It became a jazz standard. The first recording is attributed to Janet Brace with Jack Pleis's orchestra, made on 2 October 1953 and released as a single in January 1954. Her version reached No. 23 on the Billboard chart in October 1954.
Other versions that charted include Jo Stafford's (No. 15, 1954), Dinah Washington's (a No. 4 R&B hit in 1954, later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999), Helen Grayco's (No. 29, 1954) and The DeCastro Sisters' (No. 2 in 1955). The DeCastro Sisters re-recorded it in 1959 as "Teach Me Tonight Cha Cha", which reached No. 76 on the Hot 100. George Maharis had a 1962 single that reached No. 25 on the Billboard Hot 100, and Al Jarreau's 1982 version reached No. 70 on the Hot 100. The song has been recorded in several languages.
