This crossed my mind while reading another post. I think it would be a good idea. Especially if they don't let a lot of the newer producers work on the project. I think it would be cool if they did it themselves. Both are capable of writing excellent songs, so why not? What do u guys think?

Nah! Let the 2 separate talents remain separate. They are 2 different styles of music, and I can't see an album worth of material as a duet.

daPrettyman said:

the two duets they did allready were awful. Please not again.

graecophilos said:

Also they don't fit songwriterly, I think.

Well, there is a Jackson 5/ Stevie Wonder album in the vaults.....

graecophilos said:

Stevie did write one of my favorite MJ trax...."I Can't Help It".

I think it would be cool if they did a jazzy/r&b album together. It would be a new direction for both.

Well, we know that Mike admires Stevie, but I am also not a fan of their duets. They´re some of the weakest MJ tracks, BUT I looooove "I Can´t Help It".
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graecophilos said:

ditto

Sounds contrived.

daPrettyman said:

jazzy stuff wouldn't be a new direction for Stevie. "I Can't Help It" is indeed a real gem and helps making OTW something special! I mean, this album has some of pop-music's most important and talented songwriters (Jackson, Rod Temperton, David Foster, Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney) in it!

Anyway, this would never happen. You can hope that someday Stevie Wonder's song "A Pretty Face", leaks. He wrote it for a potential duet.

But well, Just Good Friends and Get It are really dumb songs. the first onenone of them even wrote!!

And btw, most of the Jackson 5/Stevie album songs were released anyway. Butter Cup in 1984 I believe and Jermaine in 1980.

graecophilos said:

But the actual Jackson versions never did. Buttercup was recorded by someone else and Jermaine did his own version. A Pretty Face is originally from those 1973/74 sessions.

Did you guys know that the Dancing Machine album was originally supposed to be a solo MJ album but evolved to be a Jackson 5 album

Doing duets and working with all these guest stars is one of the things I've criticized Michael Jackson for, even back in the day.

From what I understand,Stevie Wonder produced an entire Michael Jackson album in 1973 but it remains unreleased.The planned first single was a tune called "Buttercup",which was recorded by a singer named Carl Anderson in 1982 (you can find his version on Youtube).Motown/Universal should pull this album out of the vaults and release it! I'm sure that MJ fans and Stevie fans would love to hear it.

vainandy said:

but he has always been that way. Why some studio guitarist when you can get Eddy van Halen?

SoulAlive said:

where's this confirmed?? i first heard about that project here. Honestly I don't think it was a whole album. In 1973 SW was too busy!!
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graecophilos said:

It was between 1973-1974. Alot of info on the project is on the Michael Jackson Vault

bboy87 said:

I always get confused....was it a solo Michael Jackson album or a Jackson 5 album? Either way,Motown should pull it out the vaults and release it NOW! A few years ago,they released a previously unreleased Diana Ross album from 1973.

graecophilos said:

Many years ago,I used to visit the Motown message boards and that's where I first heard about this project.We used to talk alot about the many unreleased albums that are collecting dust in the Motown vaults

vainandy said:

Yeah Michael has done duets but lets not exaggerate. He hasn't done that MANY like say Mariah Carey or someone. His albums are not filled with guest stars and duets. That's hardly the case here.

I for one would like it if MJ & Stevie did an album together though, but i'd hope the music would be along the lines of "I Can't Help It" or "All I Do" (Which Michael did background vocals on). If it's some cheesy and outdated sounding songs like "Just Good Friends" though then it wouldn't work.

Don't like the idea at all. I prefer Stevie to stay away from MJ. He doesn't need him for anything.

SoulAlive said:

It's kinda hard to know, but it's been said that it could've been a MJ album with some J5 songs included

-If I Can't (Nobody Can)
-Buttercup
-No News Is Good News
-A Pretty Face Is -written by Stevie circa 1974. either intended for J5 or a duet between Stevie and Michael. Stevie talked about it during an interview in Japan in 1988 and said he envisioned it as a duet with Michael. A version from 1987 with Michael and Stevie was recorded for the Characters album
-You're Supposed To Keep Your Love For Me

There are a couple more but I have to look through my copy of "For The Record" again

Cinnamon234 said:

That's the type of album I would love. I think they could make some more timeless music together.