# 1927      Jermaine Jackson -      DO WHAT YOU DO
                                                                          
                                                                     Jermaine Jackson,  Arista Records, 1984


                                   BILLBOARD CHART ACHIEVEMENTS:
                                                 Adult Contemporary:  # 1
                                                   Hot 100 Singles:  # 13
                                                      Black Singles:  # 14

                                      GLOBAL CHART ACHIEVEMENTS:
                                                 # 6 in the UK, Feb. '85          
                                               # 40 in Germany, Jan. '85

                                               Top Ten at MATT RADIO

 

     
     

The lone Jackson family member to stay with Motown while the other brothers split for CBS/Epic (he was then married to Berry Gordy's daughter Hazel), Jermaine enjoyed an artistically diffident career during the '70s at Motown, surfacing with an occasional hit like a remake of "Daddy's Home" (1972) and "Let's Be Young Tonight" (1975).   Jermaine got a badly needed shot in the arm from Stevie Wonder, who wrote and produced "Let's Get Serious," a Top Ten pop and soul dance hit that came around the time of brother Michael's pop ascendancy.   Jermaine scored a nomination for a Grammy for Best R&B Male Vocal Performance for the Let's Get Serious album. 

After scoring a Top 20 pop hit in 1982 with the infectious "Let Me Tickle Your Fancy," Jermaine left Motown in 1983 for Arista Records, where he scored a pair of hits in 1984 with "Do What You Do" and the scintillating dance number "Dynamite."  (A bonus for single buyers was that the radio-aired duet with his brother Michael, "Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming," was the B-side of "Do What You Do.")  Subsequently, he re-joined the Jacksons in time for their ill-fated Victory tour in 1984.   Jackson has recorded sporadically since, though he generated controversy in 1991 when "Word to the Badd," a thinly veiled attack on his brother Michael, was leaked out to urban music stations.

Perhaps attempting to atone for his disparaging of his sibling, Jermaine leapt to Michael's defense in November 2003 when the gloved one was investigated for child molestation.  "It's a big fat lie," huffed Jermaine to 20/20's Barbara Walters.  "He's not a criminal."

source:   John Lowe, allmusic.com