Night Time Lover

1980 single by La Toya Jackson featuring Michael Jackson

"Night Time Lover"

Single by La Toya Jackson featuring Michael Jackson

from the album La Toya Jackson

B-side

"Lovely Is She"

Released

1980

Genre

Pop
R&B
soul

Length

4:22

Label

Polydor

Songwriter(s)

Michael Jackson
La Toya Jackson

Producer(s)

Michael Jackson

La Toya Jackson singles chronology

"If You Feel the Funk"
(1980)

"Night Time Lover"
(1980)

"Stay the Night"
(1981)

"Night Time Lover" is the second single by American singer La Toya Jackson, from her eponymous debut (1980). The track was produced and co-written by her brother, fellow American singer Michael Jackson, who was credited for background vocals. They originally wrote the song for Donna Summer under the title "Fire Is the Feeling".^[1]

Bobby DeBarge of American musical band Switch, La Toya's love interest at the time, 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]

La Toya 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]

On the online music database AllMusic, editor Justin Kantor provides the following description to the song: "Another primer is 'Night Time Lover,' a softly seductive, simultaneously kinetic number produced by brother Michael."^[4]

Charts

Chart (1980–1981)	Peak position
US Hot Soul Singles (Billboard)^[5]	59

References

^ "Jet - Google Boeken". Johnson Publishing Company. 31 July 1980. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
^ "Switch You And I Lyrics". Justsomelyrics.com. Archived from the original on 2012-03-14. 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.
^ "La Toya Jackson Chart History: Billboard Hot 100". Billboard. Retrieved 2019-11-10.

La Toya Jackson

Discography

Albums

La Toya Jackson
My Special Love
Heart Don't Lie
Imagination
La Toya
Bad Girl
No Relations
Formidable
From Nashville to You
Stop in the Name of Love

Extended plays

Starting Over

Bibliography

La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family
Starting Over

Singles

"If You Feel the Funk"
"Night Time Lover"
"Stay the Night"
"I Don't Want You to Go"
"Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'"
"Heart Don't Lie"
"Hot Potato"
"Private Joy"
"Baby Sister"
"He's a Pretender"
"Imagination"
"Oops, Oh No!" with Cerrone
"Yes, I'm Ready"
"(Ain't Nobody Loves You) Like I Do"
"(Tell Me) She Means Nothing To You At All"
"You're Gonna Get Rocked"
"Such a Wicked Love"
"You Blew"
"Bad Girl"
"You and Me"
"Sexual Feeling"
"Why Don't You Want My Love?"
"Oops, Oh No! (Remix)"
"Sexbox"
"Let's Rock the House"
"I Can't Help Myself"
"Don't Break My Heart" with Tom Beser
"Just Wanna Dance"
"Free the World"
"Home"
"Feels Like Love"
"Trouble"

Promotional singles

"I Don't Play That"

Notable collaborations

"We Are the World"
"Stop the Madness"

Jackson family
The Jacksons
Life with La Toya
Jack Gordon
Gordon v. Gordon

Category

v t e Michael Jackson songs
Singles Songs Unreleased songs
1970s	"Got to Be There" "Ain't No Sunshine" "I Wanna Be Where You Are" "Rockin' Robin" "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" "You've Got a Friend" "Ben" "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" "My Girl" "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" "We've Got a Good Thing Going" "With a Child's Heart" "Morning Glow" "All the Things You Are" "Happy" "Too Young" "Music and Me" "We're Almost There" "Just a Little Bit of You" "You Can't Win" "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" "Rock with You" "Working Day and Night" "It's the Falling in Love"
1980s	"Off the Wall" "Girlfriend" "She's Out of My Life" "One Day in Your Life" "The Girl Is Mine" "Billie Jean" "Beat It" "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" "Human Nature" "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" "Thriller" "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" "Lonely Teardrops" "That's What Love Is Made Of" "Farewell My Summer Love" "Girl You're So Together" "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" "Bad" "The Way You Make Me Feel" "Speed Demon" "Liberian Girl" "Just Good Friends" "Another Part of Me" "Man in the Mirror" "Dirty Diana" "Smooth Criminal" "Leave Me Alone" "Twenty-Five Miles"
1990s	"Black or White" "Jam" "In the Closet" "Remember the Time" "Heal the World" "Who Is It" "Give In to Me" "Will You Be There" "Gone Too Soon" "Dangerous" "Come Together" "Scream" "Childhood" "They Don't Care About Us" "Stranger in Moscow" "This Time Around" "Earth Song" "D.S." "You Are Not Alone" "Tabloid Junkie" "HIStory" "Smile" "Blood on the Dance Floor" "Ghosts" "Is It Scary" "On the Line"
2000s	"Speechless" "You Rock My World" "Heaven Can Wait" "Butterflies" "Cry" "One More Chance" "Cheater" "(I Like) The Way You Love Me" "Fall Again" "This Is It"
2010s	"Hold My Hand" "Hollywood Tonight" "(I Can't Make It) Another Day" "Behind the Mask" "Don't Be Messin' 'Round" "I'm So Blue" "Price of Fame" "Love Never Felt So Good" "Chicago" "Loving You" "A Place with No Name" "Slave to the Rhythm" "Blue Gangsta"
2020s	"She's Trouble"
Other	"We Are the World" "Mind Is the Magic" "What More Can I Give" "We Are the World 25 for Haiti" "Blood on the Dance Floor x Dangerous" "Diamonds Are Invincible"
Featured	"A Brand New Day" "Ease on Down the Road" "Who's Right, Who's Wrong" "Night Time Lover" "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" "State of Independence" "Muscles" "Say Say Say" "Somebody's Watching Me" "Don't Stand Another Chance" "Centipede" "Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' (Too Good to Be True)" "Eaten Alive" "Get It" "2300 Jackson Street" "Do the Bartman" "Whatzupwitu" "Why" "I Need You" "We Be Ballin'" "Girls, Girls, Girls" "All in Your Name" "There Must Be More to Life Than This" "Low" "Don't Matter to Me"
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