Night Shift

I know Lionel Richie's there - are you telling me he couldn't get the rest of the Commodores there to sing Night Shift, with an extra verse for Michael thrown in? Seriously, does anybody else on this planet think of anything besides me? - XMASTIME

TNC is blowing up Night Shift:

It's interesting watching the upbeat nature of this video. It strikes me as a very necessary reaction to Marvin Gaye's devastating death. I felt the aftershocks, and I was, like, seven or eight. But for those in the music world, it must have been traumatizing. There must have been a real need to actually feel like it was going to be "alright on the nightshift." I don't think the Commodores had another hit after this. There must have been a large segment of black America who needed to hear this.

Boy, just thinking about that slice takes me back to either coming home from church in our white Impala, covered from head to toe in a tan polyester suit with my brown clip-on tie choking me to death, or sitting in absolute darkness at night listening to the radio my Grandpa bought me.