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Thread started 10/08/07 7:31pm

jacknapier

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Somebody's watching me- Rockwell and MJ

This song is getting revived in Canada thanks to this commercial:
http://www.youtube.com/wa...xhck-jhxjo

All sorts of club remixes and whatnot. Do any of you remember this song?
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Reply #1 posted 10/08/07 7:48pm

vainandy

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Yeah, I remember that one with him walking around all fine in his towel. Too bad it didn't fall off. lol
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Reply #2 posted 10/08/07 7:57pm

TotalAlisa

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my lil brother loves this song
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Reply #3 posted 10/08/07 7:58pm

mimi07

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this song was only a hit because MJ sang the chorus, some people still don't know who the hell rockwell is lol or forgot
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Reply #4 posted 10/08/07 8:02pm

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vainandy said:

Yeah, I remember that one with him walking around all fine in his towel. Too bad it didn't fall off. lol

He was fine as hell. I just saw that video on VH1 Classics. He could of gotten it.
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Reply #5 posted 10/08/07 8:02pm

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Don't forget Jermaine Jackson, he was also on the song.
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Reply #6 posted 10/08/07 8:02pm

Rodya24

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Don't forget Jermaine Jackson, he was also on the song.


Really?
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Reply #7 posted 10/08/07 8:25pm

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For someone as connected as Rockwell was (his DAD alone!), he certainly had a short-lived music career. A world class One Hit Wonder.
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Reply #8 posted 10/08/07 8:39pm

vainandy

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PDogz said:

For someone as connected as Rockwell was (his DAD alone!), he certainly had a short-lived music career. A world class One Hit Wonder.


"Obscene Phone Caller" from that album got a lot of airplay. He had another album with a single called "He's A Cobra" that got very little airplay.
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Reply #9 posted 10/08/07 8:40pm

LittleBLUECorv
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Rodya24 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Don't forget Jermaine Jackson, he was also on the song.


Really?

Yep, chect out the credits somewhere online.
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Reply #10 posted 10/08/07 8:46pm

Najee

PDogz said:

For someone as connected as Rockwell was (his DAD alone!), he certainly had a short-lived music career. A world class One Hit Wonder.


"Obscene Phone Caller" was a top 10 song on the Billboard R&B Singles charts, so Rockwell was a two-hit wonder.
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Reply #11 posted 10/08/07 9:15pm

PDogz

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Najee said:

"Obscene Phone Caller" was a top 10 song on the Billboard R&B Singles charts,

Oh yeah, I do sort of remember that song.
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Reply #12 posted 10/08/07 10:34pm

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

Don't forget Jermaine Jackson, he was also on the song.

You know nobody cares about Jermaine lol
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Reply #13 posted 10/08/07 10:40pm

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bboy87 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Don't forget Jermaine Jackson, he was also on the song.

You know nobody cares about Jermaine lol

Janet does. wink
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Reply #14 posted 10/08/07 10:49pm

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

bboy87 said:


You know nobody cares about Jermaine lol

Janet does. wink

Not Dupri, fool! lol
I'm talkin about Jermaine "Mr.Cheek implants and Oily S Curl" Jackson lol
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Reply #15 posted 10/08/07 11:05pm

Timmy84

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LittleBLUECorvette said:


Janet does. wink

Not Dupri, fool! lol
I'm talkin about Jermaine "Mr.Cheek implants and Oily S Curl" Jackson lol


Or as Chris Rock said, that greasy, shiny mothafucka! lol

But we know MJ overpowered him in the vocal department on that song!
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Reply #16 posted 10/08/07 11:10pm

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bboy87 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:


Janet does. wink

Not Dupri, fool! lol
I'm talkin about Jermaine "Mr.Cheek implants and Oily S Curl" Jackson lol

Ah, you don't no what Joe had them kids in the house doin'. wink
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Reply #17 posted 10/08/07 11:11pm

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

bboy87 said:


Not Dupri, fool! lol
I'm talkin about Jermaine "Mr.Cheek implants and Oily S Curl" Jackson lol

Ah, you don't no what Joe had them kids in the house doin'. wink

That's just nasty lol
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Reply #18 posted 10/08/07 11:12pm

Timmy84

LittleBLUECorvette said:

bboy87 said:


Not Dupri, fool! lol
I'm talkin about Jermaine "Mr.Cheek implants and Oily S Curl" Jackson lol

Ah, you don't no what Joe had them kids in the house doin'. wink


barf I don't wanna know...

lol
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Reply #19 posted 10/08/07 11:19pm

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Timmy84 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:


Ah, you don't no what Joe had them kids in the house doin'. wink


barf I don't wanna know...

lol

I know all about the little jackson secrets. Me and Randy T. are like this.
PRINCE: Always and Forever
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Reply #20 posted 10/08/07 11:25pm

Timmy84

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Timmy84 said:



barf I don't wanna know...

lol

I know all about the little jackson secrets. Me and Randy T. are like this.


I know y'all are. lol
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Reply #21 posted 10/08/07 11:50pm

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

Timmy84 said:



barf I don't wanna know...

lol

I know all about the little jackson secrets. Me and Randy T. are like this.

Spill it foo! lol
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Reply #22 posted 10/08/07 11:59pm

Timmy84

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LittleBLUECorvette said:


I know all about the little jackson secrets. Me and Randy T. are like this.

Spill it foo! lol


Lord Jesus... and this is why MJ threads always have 100 pages and shit. Fuck that. lol I'll lurk on MJ's threads though. lurking lol
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Reply #23 posted 10/09/07 3:25am

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I like the song.
"When Michael Jackson is just singing and dancing, you just think this is an astonishing talent. And he has had this astounding talent all his life, but we want him to be floored as well. We really donĀ“t like the idea that he could have it all."
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Reply #24 posted 10/09/07 7:42am

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bboy87 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:


I know all about the little jackson secrets. Me and Randy T. are like this.

Spill it foo! lol

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PRINCE: Always and Forever
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Reply #25 posted 10/09/07 12:59pm

dancerella

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Yeah, I remember that one with him walking around all fine in his towel. Too bad it didn't fall off. lol


sorry brother, you're gonna have to fight me for Rockwell. That is my man! cool
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Reply #26 posted 10/09/07 1:01pm

dancerella

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"Obscene Phone Caller" from that album got a lot of airplay. He had another album with a single called "He's A Cobra" that got very little airplay.



that is my jam! by the way, the whole album is kickin! i think he is underrated. people didn't want to give him a chance because he had a famous, rich, powerful father in the music industry.
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Reply #27 posted 10/09/07 1:19pm

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dancerella said:

vainandy said:

Yeah, I remember that one with him walking around all fine in his towel. Too bad it didn't fall off. lol


sorry brother, you're gonna have to fight me for Rockwell. That is my man! cool


I don't want to keep him. I just want to borrow his dick for about 20 minutes. You can have him back afterwards. lol
Andy is a four letter word.
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Reply #28 posted 10/09/07 1:25pm

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This is from Wikipedia:

Rockwell is the son of Motown CEO Berry Gordy, Jr. The singer had himself signed to Motown without his father's knowledge; the elder Gordy found out that Rockwell was secretly his son Kennedy after the single and the accompanying Somebody's Watching Me album were released. The single's music video underscores the song's paranoia theme with a haunted house inspired theme, including imagery of floating heads, ravens, graveyards, and shower scenes referencing Psycho. Michael and Jermaine Jackson, Rockwell's brothers-in-law (Jermaine Jackson was married to Rockwell's half-sister Hazel), do not appear in the video.

The song was also featured in the pilot episode of the 1980s police drama Miami Vice.

Produced by Curtis Anthony Nolen, "Somebody's Watching Me" peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984, and reached the top of the Billboard R&B singles chart. Much of the song's success was derived from the presence of Michael Jackson's recognizable voice on the chorus; the Jacksons were one of the last elements added to the recording.[1] It was the only major hit for Rockwell; its follow up, "Obscene Phone Caller", reached #36 was Rockwell's only other Top 40 single.
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Reply #29 posted 10/09/07 2:07pm

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vainandy said:



I don't want to keep him. I just want to borrow his dick for about 20 minutes. You can have him back afterwards. lol

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