Miami Vice - Own The Night (1985)

Chaka Khan - Own the Night track from the Buddies Episode - original Miami Vice soundtrack.
Lyrics:
Feeling the heat
I can't keep
The pressure off me
Hear the man say
Earn your pay
Or I'll let you go today
But that's not for me
I was born to be alive
Not livin' to survive
Come closer to me, baby
Make me believe it, I can
Own the night
Reach up and touch the light
Own the night
You make me come alive
I own the night
Here in the dark
Turn it on
Love me forever like this
Baby don't stop
Make it hot
I want to taste your burn again
Take me away
To a place I've never known
Livin' right down to the bone
Closer to me baby
Make me believe it, I can
Own the night
Reach up and touch the light
(love still shines)
Own the night
You make me come alive
I own the night
You make me feel
I own the night
Own the night
Touch the light
(love still shines)
Own the night
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"Buddies" is the fifth episode of Miami Vice's second season. The episode premiered on November 1, 1985 and repeated on February 7, 1986.
While off duty, Crockett meets his old Army buddy, Robbie Cann (James Remar) in a bar. Robbie tells Sonny he and his wife Julia just had a baby boy, and asks Sonny to be the baby's godfather. Sonny agrees, then Robbie (who is a little drunk) begins dancing on a pool table. When a bar patron gets unruly with Robbie and pulls a gun, Sonny pulls his to keep things under control. He and Robbie leave, told not to come back.
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"We were buddies!"
At the Shelbourne Hotel (owned by Johnny Cannata and Frank Doss) "Ample Annie" (Karla Tamburrelli), wife of "Noogie" Lamont, is breaking in a new barmaid, Dorothy Bain (Eszter Balint), who had to bring her infant son in with her after failing to locate a babysitter. Annie offers to babysit so Dorothy can work. Before leaving, Dorothy covers up her bruises caused by her ex-husband, telling Annie that before she left him and moved to Miami she vowed to kill anyone who tried to hurt her baby. Dorothy goes on shift, but accidentally spills drinks after a patron makes a pass at her and is fired. Despondent, she camps out in the lobby with her baby. Standup comic Morty Price (Nathan Lane), who is working that night, invites Dorothy up to his room to "see what he can do for her", as he knows Cannata and Doss personally. Instead Price takes the opportunity to try and rape Dorothy, but she manages to get away and pull a steak knife on Price; when he tries again, Dorothy stabs him to death. Before leaving, Dorothy puts a bunch of papers in the bag with her baby -- papers that turn out to be betting sheets Price had made with Doss. Crockett returns from his off time and joins Tubbs in the Price murder investigation; Vice is involved because of the ownership of the club. Trudy brings Annie in; she tells them she saw Dorothy Bain going off with Price just before the murder, and gives them Dorothy's address. Before Crockett and Tubbs arrive, two intruders bust into her room in masks demanding "papers." They are chased away by the Vice duo, but Dorothy flees before they can stop and question her.
Back at OCB, Castillo reviews the history of Cannata and Doss, and learns they want to open a legitimate casino in the future when the laws are changed, but to do so they must stay clean of illegal gambling; they are both under investigation by the FBI and other government agencies for exactly that. Castillo assigns Switek and Zito to video survillence, Gina and Trudy to work at the hotel, and Crockett and Tubbs to track down Bain. Robbie goes to see Cannata (Tom Signorelli) and Doss (Frankie Valli) to pay on a loan he took out from them to open his own club. He interrupts them talking business and makes clear he wants nothing to do with it; Cannata seems somewhat upset by Robbie's brusqueness.

[@robertborich4524]

The 80s not only spawned a great array of fantastic tv shows but also the themes themselves were worthy enough and they had awesome soundtrack albums to go with them featuring kickass tracks like this one.

[@RukyaHamid]

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[@earlygail]

I loved this song since I was 11 years old #mv4eva

[@leeisenberg]

Good stuff, great tune. Thanks for sharing. - take care.

[@Julee-vz2cp]

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[@bansheemania1692]

Request 1 time Travel ticket to 1984 please.

[@nbuehster]

I love all of the songs on the soundtrack, but this one's probably my favorite. I want to know what they did in the intro. *CRASH* (some kind of synth cymbal??) *CLICK-CLICK...CLICK-CLICK* (hats with fx??) *CRASH* (the synth cymbal again??) I've been curious about this since I first heard this song. Also, v I do not know why this get my attention, and why I like it. (and why I'm even mentioning this here) But (And you have to listen *very* carefully to hear what I'm talking about) I like how the strings during the first two choruses only play one note. But, after the transposition at 3:16, you hear the strings playing two notes.

[@wrldonwill]

The crash sounds natural to me. Probably was sampled from a live source (it was the 80s). Willing to bet the percussion in the intro are sampled sources too. DX7 sounds... especially the bass. Gate reverb on snare.

[@rickyrodriguez3244]

What the song at the end

[@earlygail]

Original Theme from the pilot episode