Night Moves

Album: Marilyn Martin (1986)
Charted: 28
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Songfacts®:

  • Not to be confused with the Bob Seger song about young love, this song follows in the footsteps of "Love Is A Battlefield," with Martin standing up to a man and resisting his charms. Like Benatar's classic, the video was a very dramatic take on the song, complete with seedy nightclub scenes. In Martin's video, she's a serial killer.
  • Marilyn Martin was a session singer before dueting with Phil Collins on the US #1 hit "Separate Lives," which was the theme song for the movie White Nights. Released a few months later, "Night Moves" was her only solo hit. >>
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  • Martin wrote this song with British producer Jon Astley and John Parr of "St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)" fame. In our interview with Parr, he said: "I worked with the lovely Marilyn writing and producing songs for her album. We had a session at the Record Plant in New York. I seem to recall we were working on another track and during the break we were just running a few ideas and out came that song. Jon Astley later came aboard as producer and gave it a far more generic '80s vibe. John's a great producer but personally I think it dates the song when you listen now."

Comments: 1

  • Marina M. from UsaDoes anyone know the name of the actor playing the detective in Marilyn Martin's "Night Moves"? I'm pretty sure I've seen him in something else (movie or tv) but I can't place him. It's been driving me crazy for decades!
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