Making Love in the Afternoon

Titles alone told the story.

Remember When Lovin' Took All Night, My Body Keeps Changing My Mind, Making Love in the Afternoon.

The woman who had once been marketed as virtually sexless was now choosing songs that talked openly about adult relationships and physical desire.

Rob Mounsey heard a noticeably less guarded woman emerging in the recordings.

She rejected songs, approved songs, participated in vocal arrangements, and occasionally pushed toward material that Ramone himself thought went too far.

One particularly revealing collaboration came from Peter Cetera of Chicago.

Ramone was producing Chicago around the same period, and Cetera wrote Making Love in the Afternoon for Karen.

He even joined her in the studio, although his voice functions more as support to Karen than as an equal duet partner.