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Midnight Lovers

Midnight Lovers

Passion · 1980
Recording

Recorded in New York for Passion’s 1979 Prelude Records debut album, with Ray Martinez credited on the album as producer, arranger, engineer, guitarist, keyboardist, and string-arrangements contributor. The track appears on the album’s original Prelude sequence alongside "In New York," "Don’t Bring Back Memories," and "Dancing and Romancing." "Midnight Lovers" sits on Passion’s self-titled early disco/post-disco album and reflects the group’s sensual, dance-floor-oriented style. The track has remained one of the band’s most played songs in DJ and radio circulation, which has kept it visible within club-oriented reissue culture. The song continued to surface on later reissues of Passion material and in modern DJ programming, keeping it alive beyond the original Prelude run. Its endurance comes from the same crate-digger and dance-floor audience that preserved Passion’s catalog.

ArtistPassion
Year1980
LabelPrelude Records
ProducersRay Martinez
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Rare Groove100%
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