Songoftheday 9/27/14 - Oh not like one who finds the sweetest but cannot believe that the best will do...

Jermaine Jackson - "I Think It's Love"
from the album Precious Moments (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #16 (one week)
Weeks in the Top-40: 9

Today's Song of the Day comes from Jacksons brother Jermaine, whose self-titled 1984 album had scored him a pair of top-20 pop hits with "Dynamite" and "Do What You Do". In the two years before his next album, Jackson produced three songs from Whitney Houston's debut album (coincidentally the three that were never singles anywhere). In 1986, he released his eleventh solo album Precious Moments. The first single from the project, "I Think It's Love", was co-written with Stevie Wonder and producer Michael Omartian, and it's a slice of bouncy adult-synthpop that is readymade for office-radio play, and a much more natural performance than the forced pseudo-funk of "Dynamite"...

"I Think It's Love" became Jermaine's seventh and so far last top-40 pop hit in April of 1986. The single also crossed over to the adult contemporary (#5) and R&B (#14) radio charts in Billboard magazine. The song also reached the Dutch singles chart at #50, and snuck into the British list at #96.

His follow-up single, the dance-pop track "Do You Remember Me", made the top-40 on the R&B chart and nicked the club chart as well. The third release from the set was the lush ballad "Words Into Action", which was also included on the soundtrack to About Last Night, and peaked at #90 on the R&B list. Jermaine's next album, Don't Take It Personal, scored a #1 R&B hit with the title track, but that record failed to even reach the top-40 on the Hot 100. In 1991, he put out You Said, which included the Michael-dissing song "Word To The Badd", which became his most recent minor pop hit at #78, along with a couple of R&B top-40 singles, ending with "I Dream, I Dream" (#30) in 1992.

Since then, Jermaine's been more recognized for his tabloid-fodder goings-on, as well as his press run defending Michael during the latter's trials, and then for Jermaine's string of reality-show appearances including Celebrity Big Brother in England and Gone Country and Celebrty Wife Swap in America. In the midst of it he independently released a jazz vocal album in 2012.

Up tomorrow: A couple of animal merchant guys "rap" their way to a #1 hit.