"Right Time Of The Night" was one of the many mellow love-making hits of the '70s. It's fairly explicit, clearly stating what the right time of the night is for ("makin' love"), but delivered in a way that's unobjectionable. It was written by Peter McCann, a singer-songwriter who was trying to wrangle a record deal. When it demoed it for Clive Davis at Arista Records, Davis passed on McCann as an artist, but took the song for Jennifer Warnes, who had recently signed with the label. It was released as her first single on Arista.
Peter McCann wrote this for a man to sing, which explains lines like: We'll go drinkin' in some heavy bar I'll take you night ridin' in my Chevy car The singer is clearly setting the tone for the evening; Warnes gave it the right swagger to make it work from a female perspective.
When the song started climbing the charts, its writer, Peter McCann, got a deal with 20 Century Fox Records, which released his debut album in 1977 with the first single "Do You Wanna Make Love," another song exploring carnal desires. That one went to #5 US in August 1977, outranking "Right Time Of The Night," which reached #6 for Warnes in May.
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