Night Time Lover
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Single by La Toya Jackson featuring Michael Jackson | |||||||||||||||||||
from the album La Toya Jackson | |||||||||||||||||||
Released | August 1, 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Recorded | 1980 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Length | 4:22 | ||||||||||||||||||
Label | Polydor | ||||||||||||||||||
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Producer(s) | Michael Jackson | ||||||||||||||||||
La Toya Jackson singles chronology | |||||||||||||||||||
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"Night Time Lover" is the second single by American singer La Toya Jackson, from her eponymous debut. The track was produced by her brother Michael, who provides co-lead vocals on the chorus and co-wrote it. They originally wrote the song for Donna Summer under the title "Fire Is The Feeling".[1]
The song peaked at #59 on the Billboard R&B chart.
Bobby DeBarge of Switch, Jackson's love interest, wrote the 1980 song "You and I" in response. The song begins: "You know, I was listening to the radio the other day, And I heard the words that you said that I'm your Night Time Lover."[2]
The track "Lovely Is She" (also on the album) was on the B-side of the single.
Jackson performed the song on the November 10, 1980 episode of the Dutch TV program TopPop and a month later on the December 13 episode of American Bandstand.[3]
In Allmusic editor Justin Kantor's description: "Another primer is 'Nighttime Lover,' a softly seductive, simultaneously kinetic number produced by brother Michael."[4]
References
- ↑ "Jet - Google Boeken". Books.google.com. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
- ↑ "Switch You And I Lyrics". Justsomelyrics.com. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
- ↑ "American Bandstand Jimmy Hall / LaToya Jackson Season 24, Episode 6, Aired 12/13/80". TV.com. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ↑ "La Toya Jackson", AllMusic.