 Further versions charted in 1983 for Kenny Rogers as a duet with Sheena Easton, and again in 2002 for Ronan Keating.The song developed from an earlier Seger composition titled "This Old House" which featured the same chords as "We've Got Tonite" although the earlier song had a slightly different melody.Seger overhauled "This Old House" into "We've Got Tonite" the day after seeing the film "The Sting" (1973) which features a conversation between the Robert Redford character and a woman he's attracted to played by Dimitra Arliss who says