Janet Jackson (album)

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Janet Jackson

Studio album by Janet Jackson
Released	September, 1982
Recorded	1980-1981
Genre	Pop/R&B
Length	38:50
Label	A&M
All Music Guide link
Janet Jackson chronology
N/A	Janet Jackson (1982)	Dream Street (1984)

Janet Jackson was the self-titled debut album by Janet Jackson.

Released in 1982, it sold poorly but featured Jackson's first Top 100 pop singles, "Young Love" (a Top 10 R&B single) and "Come Give Your Love To Me" (a Top 20 R&B single produced by Foster Sylvers).

Jackson said that her music career was forced by her father at first. Joe Jackson would make her sing fluffy Pop/light R&B songs that she didn't feel comfortable singing and that's why the first two albums were forced, rushed, and flopped. However, it became the tenth biggest selling R&B album of 1982.^[1]

This and Jackson's 1984 follow-up Dream Street would be precursors to Jackson's groundbreaking sound with the Control album in 1986.

1 Track listing
2 Personnel
3 Singles released
4 Miscellanea
5 RIAA
6 External links
7 Notes

[edit] Track listing

"Say You Do" (Rene Moore, Angela Winbush) – 6:50
"You'll Never Find (A Love Like Mine)" (Moore, Winbush) – 4:11
"Young Love" (Moore, Winbush) – 4:58
"Love And My Best Friend" (Moore, Winbush) – 4:48
"Don't Mess Up This Good Thing" (Dana Meyers, Wardell Potts, Jr., Barry Sarna) – 3:55
"Forever Yours" (Attala Zane Giles, Phillip Ingram) – 4:57
"The Magic Is Working" (Gene Dozier, Dorie Pride) – 4:08
"Come Give Your Love to Me" (Glen Barbee, Charmaine Elaine Sylvers) – 5:03

[edit] Personnel

Janet Jackson (lead and background vocals)
Rene Moore (producer, songwriter, rhythm arrangements, keyboards, background vocals)
Angela Winbush (producer, songwriter, rhythm arrangements, keyboards, background vocals)
Glen Barbee (songwriter)
Vincent Brantley (handclaps)
David Crawford (rhythm arrangements)
Paulinho Da Costa (percussion)
Gene Dozier (songwriter, horn and srting arrangements, keyboards)
Andre Fischer (drums)
Eddie Fluellen (string machines)
Joey Gallo (synthesizers, keyboards)
Attala Zane Giles (songwriter, background vocals)
Marlo Henderson (guitars)
Howard Hewett (background vocals)
Jerry Hey (horn arrangements, string arrangements)
Phillip Ingram (songwriter, string machines, background vocals)
James Jamerson Jr. (bass)
Fred Jenkins (guitar)
Jerry Knight (background vocals)
Jeff Lorber (synthesizers)
Tony Maiden (guitars)
Derrick McDowell (handclaps)
Michael McGloiry (guitars)
Dana Meyers (songwriter, background vocals, background vocals arrangement)
Greg Moore (guitars)
Michael Norfleet (synthesizers)
Earnest "Pepper" Reed (guitar)
Wardell Potts Jr. (songwriter, rhythm arrangements, drums)
Dorie Pride (songwriter)
Monica Joy Rhodes (handclaps)
John Robinson (drums)
Barry Sarna (songwriter, synthesizers)
Ricky Smith (bass, string machines)
Otis Stokes (background vocals)
Charmaine Sylvers (songwriter)
Edmund Sylvers (percussion)
Foster Sylvers (producer, rhythm arrangements, drums, bass, background vocals)
Leon F. Sylvers III (rhythm arrangement, bass)
Patricia Sylvers (background vocals, sythesizers)
Ian Underwood (synthesizers)
Trevor Veitch (contractor)
Jerry Vinci (concertmaster)
Bobby Watson (producer, rhythm arrangements, bass)
Jerry Weaver (producer, rhythm arrangements, background vocal arrangements, synthesizers)
Melvin Webb (percussion)
Wendell C. Wellman (handclaps)
Mike West (guitar)
Benjamin Wright (string arrangements)

[edit] Singles released

Say You Do (1982)
Young Love (1982)
Come Give Your Love To Me (1983)
Love And My Best Friend (1983)
Don't Mess Up This Good Thing (1983)

[edit] Miscellanea

Janet didn't want any of her family members to participate in the making of the album. She wanted it to be her own project, judged by its own merits.
On the cover photo Janet is photographed in the swimming pool of the Jackson family's home.
The CD album version of "Say You Do" is the "Special Remixed Version" (6:50) from the single vinyl release instead of the original album version (5:15), which can be found on the vinyl album.