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"Night Time Lover"

Date range assessed by the following excerpt from a 1980 “Blues & Soul” magazine interview: “Blues & Soul: ‘We know you are busy on on several other projects right now -- would you like to give us an outline of them?’ Michael Jackson: ‘Well, I've done a single called "Night Time Lover" on my sister, LaToya, that will be released on Polydor real soon.’” In the same interview, Michael mentions speaking with Neil Diamond two Sundays prior about how his movie was going, and Neil responds that “he was going to dance for the first time”, meaning filming hadn’t started yet / was underway. Filming for his 1980 movie “Jazz Singer” was filmed from January 7 - April 28, 1980, confirmed in AFI Catalog.

Michael Jackson, Blues and Soul Magazine (1980)

Blues and Soul: We know you are busy on several other projects right now -- would you like to give us an outline of them?

Jackson: Well, I've done a single called "Night Time Lover" on my sister, LaToya, that will be released on Polydor real soon.

Michael Jackson, Rock & Soul Magazine (June 1980)

Toya and I originally wrote the tune ‘Midnight Lover’ for Donna Summer. We never got around to giving Donna the song, so when my father and manager, Joe Jackson, asked Toya about recording an album, we used the tune.

LaToya Jackson, singer, “Jet” magazine (July 31, 1980)

“When I did realize that I would be doing an album I went to Michael and said I’d like to include the song we had for Donna Summer. He said, ‘Fine, but I’d have to produce it because I wouldn’t want anyone else to do it.’”