Jermaine Jackson

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Jermaine Jackson

The Complete Collection
By Maarten Mulder
J
ermaine Jackson started singing at the young age of 10 with his brothers in
the band The Jackson 5. In 1968 the brothers were discovered by Motown
Records and obtained a contract. At Motown, The Jackson 5 would became
one of the most successful recording groups in music history, with their first four
singles reaching #1 in the U.S. charts.
While Jermaine was still performing with The Jackson 5, he released his first two
solo albums. In 1975, when the group decided to leave Motown Records to pursue
other career opportunities at CBS records, Jermaine decided to stay and work on
his solo career. For Motown, Jermaine released in total nine great solo albums up
until 1983, when he went to another record company called Arista Records, where
he released another four solo albums.
In his career as a solo artist Jermaine released in total 13 solo albums, and scored
many hit singles around the world. This book is a collection of all the music Jermaine
has released as a solo artist, which includes the albums, the rare unreleased tracks
and live performances, and his work for soundtracks and other artists.
Jermaine Jackson The Complete Collection
Jermaine Jackson
By Maarten Mulder
Jermaine
Jackson
By Maarten Mulder
MAARTEN MULDER BOOKS
Also by this author:
Jermaine Jackson: Discography!
The music of Jermaine Jackson
Copyright © 2012 by Maarten Mulder Books
This is a revised and extended version of an earlier edition of this book printed in 2010
Printed in The Netherlands
Jermaine Jackson
Text and design by Maarten Mulder
This is a non-profit book. It is made to have a complete collection of the music Jermaine Jackson has released during his
career. The three discs attached to this book are not audio-CD’s, but data-DVD’s and they don’t play in a CD player. The
DVD’s contains all the music Jermaine Jackson has made as a solo artist and they are made for private use only.
By Maarten Mulder
All the pictures of album and single covers used in this book are scanned by me and come from my personal collection.
Other picture credits:
- Page 4, 85, Henry Diltz;
- Page 7, 27, Michael Ochs Archive;
- Page 8/9, 14, 33, 47, 51, 91, Neal Preston;
- Page 10, 11, 16/17, 18/19, 21, 39, 43, 59, 66/67, 69, 73, 77, 87, 89, 93, photographer unknown;
- Page 12/13, Harrison Funk;
- Page 81, William Maldonado;
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or
mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in
writing from the publisher.
The great career of
Jermaine Jackson
J
ermaine Jackson, a member of the biggest family in the music industry. He started with his four brothers,
Jackie, Tito, Marlon and Michael in the band The Jackson 5, which became one of the most popular groups in
music history. Jermaine always pursued his own ambitions in his music career, and that’s why he decided to leave The
Jackson 5 and work on a solo career. Also as a solo artist Jermaine was a dynamic performer with a great voice. He
made 13 solo albums, each of them with great music.
Jermaine started to perform with his brothers in 1964 at the young age of 10. Together with his two older brothers Jackie
and Tito, and his two younger brothers Marlon and Michael, they formed the group called The Jackson Five. Jackie and
Marlon performed the background vocals and the routine dance steps, Tito played the guitar, Michael was the lead singer,
and Jermaine played the bass guitar and shared often the lead vocals with Michael. Managed by their father the brothers
would rehearse and perform day in day out at talent shows and night clubs. It was in 1968 when their hard work paid off,
when the group was offered a contract at Motown Records.
The group released their first album in December 1969 called Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5. The album was preceded
two months earlier by the single I Want You Back. The single reached #1 in the R&B and Pop chart rapidly and it wasn’t
their last. The next three singles would reach the #1 position as well, making their fist four singles consecutive #1’s. The
Jackson 5 would grow out the be a phenomenal group and obtained their place in music history.
It was in 1971, after many albums and #1 singles, that Motown decided to launch solo careers of group members. Michael
released his first single in October 1971, called Got To Be There. The single was accompanied by an album, with the same
title, released in January 1972. Got To Be There was the first of four Michael Jackson solo albums released at Motown
Records. In July of that year, the same month Michael reached the #1 position with his single Ben, Motown released the
first solo album of Jermaine. The album was simply called Jermaine and it was accompanied by two singles called That’s
How Love Goes and the top 10 hit Daddy’s Home.
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December 1980 Jermaine released the follow up album of
Let’s Get Serious, which just like his debut album, was called
Jermaine. The next album I Like Your Style was released in
September 1981 and in July 1982 Jermaine released his last
album for Motown Records called Let Me Tickle Your Fancy.
From the last album the title track was released as a single,
which became another top 20 hit. The single reached #5 in
the R&B chart and #18 in the Pop chart.
In 1983 Jermaine also recorded and produced some songs
for the debut album of Syreeta called The Spell, who’d
previously recorded background vocals and wrote some
songs for Jermaine’s album My Name Is Jermaine and Feel
The Fire. The duet they recorded was Once Love Touches
Your Life. Jermaine recorded also a song together with Rita
Coolidge for her album Never You Let Go. The song was
called We’ve Got Tonight.
During the solo years at Motown, Jermaine always hoped
for a reunion with his brothers. Eight years after the
brothers separated their ways, a reunion became reality.
The occasion was the celebration of the 25th anniversary
of Motown Records, where the original Jackson 5 gave a
medley performance of all their biggest hits. Not only was
this Motown 25 special memorable for the reunion of The
Jackson 5, it was also in this show that Michael would give
a legendary performance of Billie Jean, and for the first
time the world was introduced to the Moonwalk.
After nine solo albums Jermaine decided to leave Motown
in 1983 to continue his career at Arista Records. In April
1984 Jermaine released his first album for Arista called
Dynamite (in the U.S. released with the title Jermaine
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Jackson). The album became a big success and contains many great Pop and Soul songs. Among these songs are nice
duets with artist like Whitney Houston, Pia Zadora and brother Michael. The song with Michael was called Tell Me I’m Not
Dreamin’ (Too Good To Be True). It’s one of the few songs where an adult Michael and Jermaine share lead vocals on a
track. To Jermaine’s disappointment the song was never released as A-side single because Epic, Michaels record company,
wouldn’t allow it. They thought that having their prized superstar singing on a competing label was bad enough. However,
the song was released on the B-side of the world wide hit single Do What You Do. Other hit singles from the album where
Dynamite, Sweetest Sweetest and the #1 hit When The Rain Begins To Fall.
Besides the solo album Jermaine also reunited with his brothers for the 1984 Victory album and tour. It was for the
first time since 1975, that Jermaine released an album and went on tour with his brothers again. Because of his busy
time schedule, it was only know at the last moment that Jermaine would participate on the Victory album. That’s why
Jermaine’s contribution to the album was minimum. Jermaine sang some background vocals and shared lead vocals with
Michael on the song Torture, which where originally planned for Jackie. For the Victory tour the brothers gave 55 sold out
concerts through North America. Plans for a world tour were never realized because of the complexity of the tour and the
amount of people that were involved with own interest.
In 1985 a young female artist called Whitney Houston released her debut album. For this album Jermaine produced
several tracks and recorded a duet called Nobody Loves Me Like You Do. Another duet with Whitney Houston was released
in the same year, which was called Shock Me. The song appeared on the soundtrack of the movie Perfect with John
Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis. On the same album was another song of Jermaine called (Closest Thing To) Perfect, which
was released as a single.
The next solo album for Arista was released in February 1986 and was called Precious Moments. It was another great
album filled with Pop, R&B and Soul music. The album contains great songs like I Hear Heartbeat, Voices In The Dark and
another duet with Whitney Houston was recorded for this album, called If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful. The first single
released from the album was the song I Think It’s Love, which was partially written by Stevie Wonder. Two other songs
from the album that were released as a single were Do You Remember Me? and Words Into Action. Accompanied with the
album was the Precious Moments Tour.
In 1987 and 1988 Jermaine again recorded some tracks for soundtracks. The song All Revved Up appeared on the
soundtrack of the Eddie Murphy movie Beverly Hills Cop II, and the song Clean Up You Act was released on the soundtrack
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka.
In 1989 Jermaine released another album with his brothers again, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of The Jackson
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Album 03
My Name Is Jermaine
1.
Let’s Be Young Tonight
(Don Daniels/Michael L. Smith)
Produced and Arranged by Michael L. Smith
Co-Produced by Don Daniels
6.
Lovely, You’re The One
(Jeffrey Bowen/Truman Thomas/James Henry Ford)
Arranged by Truman Thomas
Produced by Jeffrey Bowen
2.
Faithful
(Michael L. Smith/Don Daniels)
Produced and Arranged by Michael L. Smith
Co-Produced by Don Daniels
7.
3.
Look Past My Life
(Terri McFaddin/Gregory Wright)
Produced and Arranged by Gregory Wright
8.
Bass Odyssey
(Gregory Wright)
Produced and Arranged by Gregory Wright
9.
Stay With Me
(Michael B. Sutton/Brenda J. Sutton)
Arranged by Art Wright
Produced by Hal Davis and Michael B. Sutton
I Just Want To Take This Time
(Eric Robinson/Victor Orsborn)
Arranged by Truman Thomas
Produced by Jeffrey Bowen
4.
Who’s That Lady
(Kenneth Lupper/Hubert Heard)
Arranged by Kennu Lupper, William Vickelhaupt and Clay
Drayton
Produced by Gwen Glenn Enterprice, Inc
5.
My Touch Of Madness
(Michael L. Smith)
Arranged by Michael L. Smith and William Goldstein
Produced by Michael L. Smith
Executive Producer: Berry Gordy
Released for Motown M6-842S1, August 1976; Chart result: #29 R&B, #164 Pop.
Singles from My Name Is Jermaine
Let’s Be Young Tonight b/w Bass Odyssey, Motown 1401, August 1976; Chart result: #19 R&B, #55 Pop;
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“I won’t be ashamed to let her know my name...
- What’s your name?
In fact, my name is, my name, my name is Jermaine”
- Who’s That Lady -
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Album 11
Precious Moments
1.
Do You Remember Me?
(Jermaine Jackson/Michael Omartian/Bruce Sudano)
Produced and Arranged by Michael Omartian
6.
2.
Lonely Won’t Leave Me Alone
(David Foster/Jermaine Jackson/Tom Keane/Kathy
Wakefield)
Produced by Jermaine Jackson and Tom Keane
7.
Give A Little Love
(Rodney Crowell/David Malloy)
8.
3.
Precious Moments
(Jermaine Jackson/Tom Keane)
Arranged by Tom Keane
4.
I Think It’s Love
(Jermaine Jackson/Michael Omartian/Stevie Wonder)
Our Love Story
(Jermaine Jackson/Tom Keane/David Batteau)
I Hear Heartbeat
(Mick Leeson/Peter Vale)
If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful
Duet with Whitney Houston
(Elliot Willensky)
Voices In The Dark
(Jermaine Jackson/Michael Omartian/Bruce Sudano)
9.
5.
10. Words
Into Action
(Mick Leeson/Peter Vale)
Executive Producer: Clive Davis
Released for Arista 8227, January 1986; Chart result: #25 R&B, #46 Pop.
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Singles from Precious Moments
I Think It’s Love b/w Voices In The Dark, Arista 9444, February 1986; Chart result: #14 R&B, #16 Pop;
Do You Remember Me? b/w Whatch Doin’ [not released on album], Arista 9502, June 1986; Chart result: #40 R&B, #71
Pop;
Words Into Action b/w Our Love Story, Arista 9495, January 1987; Chart result: #90 R&B;
Singles not released in the U.S.:
Lonely Won’t Leave Me Alone b/w Our Love Story, issued in Europe, Arista 108 238, 1986;
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CD 2 The
I
Arista Years
ermaine left Motown in 1983 and signed a new contract with Arista Records. Jermaine recorded at Arista from
1983 - 1992 and released four albums. The last album was released in 1991, called You Said, which was released as a
joint verture between Arista and a new record company called LaFace Records. Besides the four solo albums Jermaine also
released individual songs. Many of these songs where released on soundtracks, but also as interesting single B-side, and
for other artist like Whitney Houston and a female singer called Melissa from South America, where Jermaine appeared
as a guest artist.
Album 01 Dynamite
1. Dynamite
2. Sweetest Sweetest
3. Tell Me I’m Not Dreamin’ (Too Good To Be True)
8.
If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful
9.
Voices In The Dark
Into Action
10. Words
Duet with Michael Jackson
4.
Escape From The Planet of the Ant Men
Album 03 Don’t Take It Personal
Featuring Tito and Randy Jackson
1.
5.
When The Rain Begins To Fall
2.
Duet with Pia Zadora
3.
Climb Out
Don’t Take It Personal
Make It Easy On Love
6.
Duet with Miki Howard
4.
8.
Come To Me (One Way Or Another)
Do What You Do
Take Good Care Of My Heart
6.
7.
So Right
I’d Like To Get To Know You
Two Ships (In The Night)
Rise To The Occasion
Duet with La La
7.
Some Things Are Private
10. Oh Mother
9.
5.
(C’mon) Feel The Need
Next To You
10. Don’t Make Me Wait
8.
Album 02 Precious Moments
1. Do You Remember Me?
2. Lonely Won’t Leave Me Alone
3. Give A Little Love
4. Precious Moments
5. I Think It’s Love
6. Our Love Story
7. I Hear Heartbeat
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9.
Album 04 You Said
You Said, You Said
2. Rebel (With A Cause)
3. I Dream, I Dream (Interlude)
4. I Dream, I Dream
1.
6.
We’re Making Whoopee
Treat You Right
Featuring Babyface
5.
Produced by Michael Omartian
Taken from the soundtrack Perfect
Word To The Badd!! (Prelude)
8. Word To The Badd!! (Original Version)
9. A Lover’s Holiday
10. Secrets
11. True Lovers
12. Don’t You Deserve Someone
13. Word To The Badd!! (Album Version)
14. You Said, You Said (Extended Remix)
7.
Bonus tracks
1.
Si Se Pone A Llover (When The Rain Begins To Fall)
(Michael Bradley/Peggy March/Steve Wittmack)
Produced by Jack White
Taken from the single Si Se Pone A Llover
Nobody Loves Me Like You Do
(James P. Dunne/Pamela Phillips)
Produced by Jermaine Jackson
Taken from Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
3. (Closest Thing To) Perfect
(Michael Omartian/Bruce Sudano/Jermaine Jackson)
Produced by Michael Omartian
Taken from the soundtrack Perfect
4.
Shock Me
(Bruce Roberts/Andy Goldmark)
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6.
Confesiones
Duet with Melissa
(K. Franceschi/G. Bracchi/P. Daniel)
Taken from Melissa - Melissa III
All Revved Up
Produced by Giorgio Moroder
Taken from the soundtrack Beverly Hills Cop II
7.
Duet with Pia Zadora
2.
Whatcha Doin’
(Jermaine Jackson/Berry Gordy/Chris Clark)
Produced by Robbie Buchanon
Taken from the B-side of Do You Remember Me?
5.
Clean Up Your Act
(D. Morgan/P. Gurvitz/S. Climie)
Produced and Arranged by Preston Glass
Taken from the B-side of Don’t Take It Personal
8.
9. Spare The Rod, Love The Child
(J. Pescetto/J. Silbar/M. Mueller)
Produced by David Z in association with Ricky P
Taken from the B-side of I’d Like To Get To Know You
10. You
Are So Beautiful (Live)
(Billy Preston/Bruce Fisher)
Taken from a tribute concert to Suzanne DePasse
11. Shout
(Rudolph Isley/Ronals Isley/O’Kelly Isley, Jr.)
Produced and Arranged by Arizona Productions
Taken from the Nine Network Australia commercial Shout
By Maarten Mulder
J
ermaine Jackson started singing at the young age of 10 with his brothers in
the band The Jackson 5. In 1968 the brothers were discovered by Motown
Records and obtained a contract. At Motown, The Jackson 5 would became
one of the most successful recording groups in music history, with their first four
singles reaching #1 in the U.S. charts.
While Jermaine was still performing with The Jackson 5, he released his first two
solo albums. In 1975, when the group decided to leave Motown Records to pursue
other career opportunities at CBS records, Jermaine decided to stay and work on
his solo career. For Motown, Jermaine released in total nine great solo albums up
until 1983, when he went to another record company called Arista Records, where
he released another four solo albums.
In his career as a solo artist Jermaine released in total 13 solo albums, and scored
many hit singles around the world. This book is a collection of all the music Jermaine
has released as a solo artist, which includes the albums, the rare unreleased tracks
and live performances, and his work for soundtracks and other artists.
Jermaine Jackson
By Maarten Mulder
Jermaine
Jackson
By Maarten Mulder

Jermaine Jackson

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