karenmuenchen's video: NIGHTSHIFT - female cover - Commodores - Karenmuenchen

For this song I played all the instruments and have sung all the vocals. "Nightshift" is a 1985 song by the Commodores and the title track from their eleventh album of the same name. The song was written by lead singer Walter Orange in collaboration with Dennis Lambert and Franne Golde, as a loving tribute to soul/R&B singers Jackie Wilson and Marvin Gaye, both of whom died in 1984. The first verse mentions Gaye's song "What's Going On", while the second verse mentions Jackie Wilson's "Lonely Teardrops", ("Say you will"), "Baby Workout" and "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher". The song was released as the album's first single on January 31, 1985 by Motown Records in the USA. "Nightshift" was recorded in 1984, and became the Commodores' first hit after Lionel Richie's departure from the group. It became their biggest hit after Richie's departure, peaking at number three for the week of April 20 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart, and rising to number one on the Hot Black Singles chart; the single also became a success on the Adult Contemporary and the Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales charts in the first half of that year. As of 2021, it has proven the group's final Top Forty hit.