"Shadows in the Moonlight" is a song written by

Charlie Black Charles Frank Black (November 23, 1949 – April 23, 2021) was an American country music songwriter and record producer. Biography Black graduated from University of Maryland in 1970 and moved to Nashville, Tennessee the same year. His first c ...

and

Rory Bourke Rory Michael Bourke (born July 14, 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio is an American country music songwriter and music publisher. Bourke moved to Nashville in 1964 and worked for a period in the promotional department of Mercury Records. His songwritin ...

, and recorded by Canadian country pop music singer

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. It was released in May 1979 as the second single from the album ''

New Kind of Feeling ''New Kind of Feeling'' is the thirteenth studio album by Canadian Country music, country and Pop music, pop vocalist Anne Murray, issued in January 1979 on Capitol Records. The recording continued her chart success from the previous year's ''Let' ...

''. The song reached No. 1 on the ''

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'' Hot Country Singles chart that July, and was one of three chart-toppers for her during the year. "Shadows in the Moonlight" was Murray's third No. 1 single on the country chart and fourth overall (counting " You Needed Me," which topped the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in 1978). "Shadows in the Moonlight" was released during Murray's peak as a

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artist, and the song was one of several that also charted on the Hot 100. The song peaked at #25 in July and spent three weeks at #1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks chart.

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* ''New Kind of Feeling'' by Anne Murrayat

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