Jermaine Jackson
Jermaine (Motown) 1972
The Mizell-stacked Corporation packed some juice into Jermaine’s sometimes-schmaltzy debut solo joint—though its main commercial draw might have been the gatefold’s shirtless-Jermaine-on-the-beach. The plaintive and paranoid Temptations-style cut “Different World” and the frantic go-go rhythms of “Take Me in Your Arms” were written by Holland-Dozier-Holland and are worth the price of the petroleum.
