Songoftheday 12/5/13 - Did they steal you away like a thief in the night, love like this must take flight...

Jermaine Jackson - "Do What You Do"
from the album Jermaine Jackson (1984)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #13 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 12

Today's Song of the Day is by Jermaine Jackson, who switched labels from Motown (where he'd been since part of the Jackson Five) to Arista, and scored a top-20 hit with "Dynamite". For the second American single he slowed things down a bit for the gentle ballad "Do What You Do", written by Ralph Dino and Larry DiTamaso, which sported another MTV-ready epic video with gangsters and mansions and whatnot...

"Do What You Do" became Jermaine's sixth top-40 pop hit in January of 1985, while going all the way to #1 on the adult-contemporary (easy-listening) radio format, and #14 on Billboard's R&B chart. Internationally the song did really well, becoming his biggest hit in England (#6), while topping the singles chart in Belgium and going top ten in Ireland and Holland.

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 Here's Jermaine on a TV appearance in 1985...

The "B-side" of the single was "Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin'", a collaboration with his then red-hot brother Michael. Although the song couldn't get a proper single release because of Michael's record company, the remix nonetheless topped the dance club play chart in Billboard for three weeks...

Up tomorrow: A "truckin'" band prefers to be in the dark.