Speaking of songs that Michael wrote for others,do you guys remember these...

***"Behind The Mask (Who Do You Love?") by Greg Phillinganes (1985?)---Greg Phillinganes was Michaels' keyboardist through most of the 80s,and Mike wrote and produced this song for him.

Familiar faces from the beat it video:

Shalamar's Jeffrey Daniels and actors Stoney Jackson and Michael DeLorenzo. (And this sorry arse Solid Gold dancer.)

***"Eaten Alive" by Diana Ross (1985)---You can even hear Michael on the chorus,and he sings "You can rip my shirt,drag me in the dirt...I will be your slave,anything you say,but I don't ever wanna be...Eaten Alive!"

***"Behind The Mask (Who Do You Love?") by Greg Phillinganes (1985?)---Greg Phillinganes was Michaels' keyboardist through most of the 80s,and Mike wrote and produced this song for him.

Here's some more MJ trivia for ya...


The song "Beat It" was inspired by the 1979 song "My Sharona" by The Knack.That song was a favorite of Michaels',and he tried to write a rock song that had the same power and energy.

I love what Diana Ross said about Michael writing the song "Muscles" for her...

"Michael wrote the song "Muscles" for me,and I don't know if it's his fantasy or mine"

Speaking of songs that Michael wrote for others,do you guys remember these...


***"Nighttime Lover" by LaToya Jackson (1980)---We all know that LaToya can't sing,but this song was great! I haven't heard it in decades,but I think the chorus goes somethihng like "Baby...save my soul tonight".

***"This Had To Be" by The Brothers Johnson (1980)---The Brothers Johnson played on Mike's 'Off The Wall' album so to return the favor,Michael gave them this song for their 'Light Up The Night' album.It's a fast,uptempo number with Michael singing along.

***"Eaten Alive" by Diana Ross (1985)---You can even hear Michael on the chorus,and he sings "You can rip my shirt,drag me in the dirt...I will be your slave,anything you say,but I don't ever wanna be...Eaten Alive!"

***"Behind The Mask (Who Do You Love?") by Greg Phillinganes (1985?)---Greg Phillinganes was Michaels' keyboardist through most of the 80s,and Mike wrote and produced this song for him.

DavidEye said:

Diana Ross is a drunk-ass, drunk driving Bitch! But I still love her old wrinkled ass!

DavidEye said:

U failed 2 mention that the BeeGees' Barry Gibb was also heavily involved in the production of "Eaten Alive", and u can hear his vocals on it as well.

Ellie said:

52?? R U Sure?? Wow

I saw a recent picture of her from People's Magazine(2002) and the woman was,,,Oh my god, I can't believe she's 52.

Does anyone have Jackie's solo project or Marlon's. I really liked both of the singles they had out. I think Jackie's was called "Stay" and I only remember Marlon's video...it was good. It's like no one gave the brothers a chance and they had so much talent as well.

Does anyone have Jackie's solo project or Marlon's. I really liked both of the singles they had out. I think Jackie's was called "Stay" and I only remember Marlon's video...it was good. It's like no one gave the brothers a chance and they had so much talent as well.

Now why did you put Jermaine before Michael there? Was that a mistake?

right up there with Vanity's Pretty Mess

Ellie said:

Jermaine is a One Man Band also the Cat brought Switch&Debarge on board too Motown&Played on Switch's Albums.remember Jermaine played Bass&Sung on stage with the Jackson 5 as a Kid.that is something else at any age too sing&Play Bass at the same time.Jermaine on Talent overall together with Michael&Randy are the 3 Baddest in the Family IMHO.Michael is easily the Better All-Around Artist in the Family when you add everything together but when it comes too Playing,Composing,Singing,etc... Jermaine&Randy are right there with Michael&that is nothing too frown upon.

mistermaxxx said:

Hate to break it to all the Jermaine lovers out there (which I guess includes myself) but both Clarence Paul (an arranger at Motown) and Frank Blair (a L.A. bassist who played with a few Motown acts including Marvin Gaye) have admitted that Jermaine played almost no bass, and certainly did not play well enough to play bass live with the group. Paul said that on numerous occasions watching J5 from backstage, Jermaine's bass cable wasn't even plugged in, just dragging around on stage.

The J5's bassist was actually Frank Blair during the early 70's tours. Blair and James Jamerson split bass duties on most of the recordings for Motown.

-SWANGstilldigshimsomeJermaine

how do ou explain His Playing during the "Victory" Tour? or In the Studio with Switch? I got Friends in the Biz as well who Comfirm Jermaine's Musical Ablity."2300 jackson Street" Album was Tossed&Sucked.seeing Jermaine&Crew doing the Cabbage Patch wasn't cool.but Jermaine got Skills.

mistermaxxx said:

I'm not saying he couldn't play at all, or that he didn't get better later, but there WAS another bass player on the Victory Tour (Nathan East) performing bass parts simultaneously with Jermaine.

All I know is that Clarence Paul remembers being told by Berry Gordy to put together a band for the Jacksons and expressly forbade him from allowing Jermaine and Tito to play their instruments live because of their limited abilities.

-SWANG'sjustthemessenger

Here's some more trivia about this song...



***You can hear The Weather Girls (former background singers for the late Sylvester) on the chorus of "Centipede".They're the ladies who are singing "I'm just crawling like a Centipede".


***For those of you who had the 45 of this song,remember the awesome song on the B-side? It was a lovely remake of Smokey Robinson's "A Fork In The Road".

I could never get into Marlon's voice, but he could dance his ass off.

lennytunia said:

Good call! Growing up, I heard that Marlon was the real dancing machine in the Jackson family.