Billboard #1 Hits: #582: ‘ Part- Time Lover’ – Stevie Wonder. November 2, 1985. #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100.
- Single: ‘Part- Time Lover’- Stevie Wonder
- Record Company- Tamla
- Genre: Pop, R&B
- Written by Stevie Wonder
- Time: 3:43
- B-side: ‘instrumental’
- Album-In Square Circle
- Grade: B
- Peaked at #1 1 week in Billboard Hot 100. #3 in UK Singles Chart, #1 in Belgium, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain
Stevie Wonder’s 9th and final #1 hit single on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. Luther Van Dross provides back-up vocals. This single became the first single to get to #1 on four different Billboard charts- the Pop, R&B, Dance and Adult Contemporary charts.
I love Stevie Wonder but would say he’s done much better than this tune. That being said, I’m happy for him it yielded another hit!
not a bad song but certainly not the Stevie Wonder of the 1970’s