Dynamite (Jermaine Jackson album)

Jermaine Jackson/Dynamite
Studio album by Jermaine Jackson
Released February 23, 1984
Recorded 1983-1984
Genre R&B
Label Arista
Producer Clive Davis
Jermaine Jackson chronology
Let Me Tickle Your Fancy
(1982)
Dynamite
(1984)
Precious Moments
(1986)

Jermaine Jackson/Dynamite is an album by Jermaine Jackson, released in 1984. It was his debut for Arista Records after reuniting with his brothers The Jacksons and leaving Motown. It features one of his famous hits, "Do What You Do", its B-Side "Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' (Too Good to Be True)" (a duet with his brother Michael Jackson that was released to US dance clubs and topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart for three weeks[1]), "Sweetest Sweetest", as well as other participations from The Jacksons on "Escape from the Planet of the Ant Men" and Whitney Houston (the duet "Take Good Care Of My Heart"). The album's title track appeared in the 1984 movie Beverly Hills Cop.

Later issues also featured as a bonus the hit song "When the Rain Begins to Fall", a duet with Pia Zadora, which served as the soundtrack to the 1984 movie Voyage of the Rock Aliens. It was positioned as track #5, therefore at the beginning of the second part of the album on LP and Cassette releases.

The album was entitled Dynamite in the U.K. and throughout Europe.

Track listing

  1. "Dynamite" (6:01)
  2. "Sweetest Sweetest" (4:05)
  3. "Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' (Too Good to Be True)" (Duet with Michael Jackson) (4:22)
  4. "Escape From the Planet of the Ant Men" (Featuring Tito and Randy Jackson) (5:04)
  5. "Come to Me (One Way or Another)" (5:17)
  6. "Do What You Do" (4:46)
  7. "Take Good Care of My Heart" (Duet with Whitney Houston) (4:17)
  8. "Some Things Are Private" (4:05)
  9. "Oh Mother" (4:48)

References