Jan Hammer owned the #1 spot of the Billboard Hot 100 on the week of December 9, 1985, with the theme to Miami Vice. I covered that track during a week on TV theme songs that topped the chart.
At #2 that week, following a single week at the top spot, was Stevie Wonder’s ‘Part-Time Lover.’ This was the last of eight #1 hits for Wonder, and it is notable for being the first track to reach #1 on four different Billboard charts: Hot 100, dance, R&B, and adult contemporary.
‘Part-Time Lover’ is an ode to a mistress, with the first two verses detailing the rules for keeping the clandestine affair from the singer’s significant other. The twist comes in the third verse, where he learns that his woman has been carrying on an affair of her own.
I guess that makes this the R-rated version of ‘Escape (The Piña Colada Song).’
Call up, ring once, hang up the phone
To let me know you made it home
Don’t want nothing to be wrong with part-time lover
If she’s with me, I’ll blink the lights
To let you know tonight’s the night
For me and you, my part-time lover
[Chorus]
We are undercover passion on the run
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it’s so wrong, but feeling so right
[Verse 2]
If I’m with friends and we should meet
Just pass me by, don’t even speak
Know the word’s “discreet” with part-time lovers
But if there’s some emergency
Have a male friend to ask for me
So then she won’t peek, it’s really you, my part-time lover
[Chorus]
We are undercover passion on the run, yeah
Chasing love up against the sun
We are strangers by day, lovers by night
Knowing it’s so wrong, but feeling so right
[Verse 3]
I’ve got something that I must tell
Last night someone rang our doorbell
And it was not you, my part-time lover
And then a man called our exchange
But didn’t want to leave his name
I guess that two can play the game
Of part-time lovers
You and me, part-time lovers
But, she and he, part-time lovers
Meet Me In Montauk 
Between this, “I Just Called to Say I Love You,” and “Ebony and Ivory,” the 80s was not Stevie’s best decade, though I did like his songs on the Jungle Fever soundtrack.
Always a fan of Stevie Wonder ❤️