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Not to be confused with Night Time Lover or Part-Time Love.
"Part-Time Lover"
Song

"Part-Time Lover" is a 1985 single by Stevie Wonder, from his album In Square Circle. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, ( his last number one song on billboard), R&B, dance, and adult contemporary charts. The song's simultaneous chart success made him the first artist to score a number-one hit on four different Billboard charts. The song also reached number three on the UK singles chart.

The song featured R&B singer Luther Vandross humming at the end of Stevie's verses and on backing vocals. Stevie Wonder earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1986, for the song. Wonder is noted in the liner notes of the 4-CD set "Hitsville USA: The Motown Singles Collection Volume 2 1972-1992" as describing the music for the song as an ode to "You Can't Hurry Love" and "My World Is Empty Without You," both by The Supremes, former Motown label mates of Wonder.

Music video

The video for "Part-Time Lover" features a black couple and the affairs that they have with their other halves. The video begins with the couple watching a film, when their phone rings. For the majority of the video, each half of the couple is seen re-enacting the lyrics of the song, such as the wife's male friend initiating her phone call to avoid suspicion. Interspersed with the narrative is footage of Wonder playing a Kurzweil keyboard in a dance club. One shot of Wonder features him inside a triangular window with a red spotlight hovering over it, a visual reference to the album In Square Circle, on which this song appears. Wonder also sings the song on the street, as the husband rendezvous with his partner. The climax of the video has the husband and his partner dancing on one side of Wonder's stage, and the wife and her partner dancing on the other side. It is implied that the husband notices his wife through the legs of Wonder's keyboard stand.

Charts

Chart (1985) Peak
position
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[1] 11
Belgium (VRT Top 30 Flanders)[2] 1
Canada (RPM 100 Singles)[3] 1
France (SNEP)[4] 3
Invalid chart entered Germany2 12
Ireland (IRMA)[5] 1
Italy (FIMI)[6] 1
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40)[7] 17
New Zealand (Recorded Music NZ)[8] 1
Norway (VG-lista)[9] 5
Spain (AFYVE)[10] 1
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[11] 3
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[12] 5
United Kingdom (The Official Charts Company)[13] 3
US Billboard Hot 100[14] 1

Cover versions

Personnel

See also

References

  1. ^ "Stevie Wonder – Part Time Lover" (in German). Ö3 Austria Top 40.
  2. ^ "part time lover - stevie wonder". VRT (in Dutch). Top30-2.radio2.be. Retrieved 25 July 2013. Hoogste notering in de top 30 : 1
  3. ^ "Top Singles - Volume 42, No. 22, September 10, 1985". Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Stevie Wonder – Part Time Lover" (in French). Les classement single. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
  5. ^ "Chart Track: Week 29, 1985". Irish Singles Chart.
  6. ^ "I singoli più venduti del 1985". HitParadeItalia (in Italian). Creative Commons. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
    10. Part Time Lover - Stevie Wonder [#1]
  7. ^ "Nederlandse Top 40 – Stevie Wonder" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40.
  8. ^ "Stevie Wonder – Part Time Lover". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 21 July 2013.
  9. ^ "Stevie Wonder – Part Time Lover". VG-lista.
  10. ^ Salaverri, Fernando (September 1985). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1st ed.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  11. ^ "Stevie Wonder – Part Time Lover". Singles Top 100.
  12. ^ "Stevie Wonder – Part Time Lover". Swiss Singles Chart.
  13. ^ "ChartArchive - The Chart Archive". Chartstats.com. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
  14. ^ Stephen Thomas Erlewine (1940-10-14). "Stevie Wonder | Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2014-03-28.
  15. ^ "Bobby Valentin: Hot Latin Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. September 27, 1986.
  16. ^ "In Square Circle on". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2011-12-22.

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