alphastreet said:

That's my jerm!

It was on one of my first cassettes along with "What Have You Done For Me Lately".

Always jam to this in the summer.

Michael Omartian never gets his props but he worked well with Jermaine. Omartian's key change at the end with those added backing vocals etc.. is flawless.

Shame the video is so dull though LOL.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

A lot of folks don't know Jermaine wrote this along with Stevie Wonder. They worked well together.

I am trying to think of their other collaborations besides "Let's Get Serious".

Cinny said:

Stevie also produced some unreleased songs for the Jackson 5 and they sang backup on You Haven't Done Nothin'.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

And Jermaine covered At Stevie quit a bit too.

There's also an indirect connection. Jermaine produced and duetted with Stevie's ex-wife Syreeta Wright. Both Jermaine & Stevie were on the Pops We Love You album too.

MickyDolenz said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

And Jermaine covered At Stevie quit a bit too.

There's also an indirect connection. Jermaine produced and duetted with Stevie's ex-wife Syreeta Wright. Both Jermaine & Stevie were on the Pops We Love You album too.

I love the duet Jermaine did with Syreeta on You Belong To Me from his Let Me Tickle Your Fancy album.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Isn't She Lovely

"I Think It's Love" reminds me a lot of that tune/rhythm.

Cinny said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Isn't She Lovely

"I Think It's Love" reminds me a lot of that tune/rhythm.

I thinki they're similary structured.

Jermaine's early '80s production style at Motown was pretty Stevie-ish as well. And I really like the '83 album he produced for Syreeta (especially the cover of the J5's "To Know") - too bad it isn't on CD anywhere.

ChickenMcNuggets said:

Jermaine's early '80s production style at Motown was pretty Stevie-ish as well. And I really like the '83 album he produced for Syreeta (especially the cover of the J5's "To Know") - too bad it isn't on CD anywhere.

His Stevie like material worked much better than his late 70s hard funk attempts IMO.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

ChickenMcNuggets said:

Jermaine's early '80s production style at Motown was pretty Stevie-ish as well. And I really like the '83 album he produced for Syreeta (especially the cover of the J5's "To Know") - too bad it isn't on CD anywhere.

His Stevie like material worked much better than his late 70s hard funk attempts IMO.

I like both, but I do think '80 to '84 (Let's Get Serious to Jermaine Jackson/Dynamite) was definitely his strongest period from a production perspective. Nice bits of OTW influence in some of his stuff of that era, too.

ChickenMcNuggets said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Randy was on a few of those early 80s Jermaine albums also.

Herbie Hancock played on a few songs too

MickyDolenz said:

wait... isn't Jermaine the brother of Janet.... who is the daughter of Joe.... who had another son called M...

OMG! LOCK THIS THREAD!!

BombSquad said:

LOVE this track. It used to play all the time over the piped-in music when I worked at Toys 'R Us years ago.