"Right Time of the Night" is the title of a 1976 composition by Peter McCann which became a Top Ten hit single in 1977 via a recording by Jennifer Warnes.

Peter McCann would recall his inspiration for writing "Right Time of the Night": "I was out at the beach at Malibu, and it was one of those perfect sunsets. I was there for the entire evening, and the sun went down and the stars came out. But...and it was totally accidental — I didn’t mention the beach [or] anything like that [in the lyrics] because that would have regionalized [the song]." McCann had been working as a staff writer for American Broadcasting Music for roughly a year without composing a high-profile song: McCann - "I played ['Right Time of the Night'] for [boss] Gerry Teifer...For the first time...he let me play [a] whole song through, and then he did something he’d never done before. He said: 'Play that again.' I played it again, and he goes: 'Wait here.' He brought in everybody in the building who was working there and said 'Play it.' I played it, and they all cheered and went nuts. I thought it was just another song I had written, but apparently not."

As originally written and as recorded by Peter McCann for his 1977 self-titled album, "Right Time of the Night", which would serve as B-side for McCann's own 1977 Top Ten hit "Do You Wanna Make Love", featured a distinct second verse from that eventually recorded by Jennifer Warnes: Warnes herself wrote lyrics for a less overtly masculine second verse which McCann rejected, eventually himself writing new second verse lyrics deemed female-friendly. Prior to the release of Warnes' version of "Right Time of the Night", Bette Midler expressed an interest in recording the song but asked that the bridge be reworked, a stipulation McCann was still working on when Warnes' version reached the charts at which point work on a Midler version was dropped.

"Right Time of the Night" was one of seven songs which McCann played for Clive Davis, president of Arista Records (for whom Jennifer Warnes recorded) when he (i.e. McCann) was making the rounds of auditions in hopes of being signed as a recording artist. McCann would recall Davis saying: "I don't like you as an artist, but I'm taking six of the seven songs." "Right Time of the Night" was one of the six songs Davis optioned (the one song Davis passed on was "Do You Wanna Make Love" which would afford McCann a Top Ten hit when he recorded it after being signed with 20th Century Records.)

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