Robbed hit of the week 2/9/15: Jermaine Stewart's "Jody"...

"Jody" - Jermaine Stewart
from the album Frantic Romantic (1986)
Billboard Hot 100 peak: #42

This week's "robbed hit" comes from Jermaine Stewart, who went from being a dancer on Soul Train to a backup singer for Culture Club to his own record deal, which spawned the top-5 ode to chastity "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off". He followed that up with a song honoring his Soul Train dance mate and former Shalamar chanteuse Jody Watley. "Jody", written by Jermaine with producer Narada Michael Walden ("Freeway Of Love") and Jeffrey E Cohen, sounded a little more "rough" than his previous hit...

While "Jody" reached the top-10 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart at #9, and climbed to #18 on their R&B chart, the single stalled right under the top-10 on the pop list in November of 1986. Internationally, the record stopped at the halfway mark on the British chart at #50.

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And here's Jermaine performing the song live in 1988...