Off the Wall (album)

Off the Wall is an album by Michael Jackson from 1979.



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[hide] *1 History  ==History[ Edit] == Michael Jackson was already a decade or so popular as lead singer of the Jackson Five (from 1978 known as The Jacksons) and as a solo singer, including the hits Am andGot To Be There. In 1978 he and his brothers stepped over from Motown to the label Epic Records, part of CBS.
 * 2 Numbers
 * 2.1 Album
 * 2.2 Special edition (2001)

In 1978 Michael played the role of the scarecrow in a musical version of The Wizard of Ozentitled The Wiz. Although the film not on the commercial and artistic expectations, he meant a milestone in Michael's career. The music in the film was provided by Quincy Jones, with whom Michael then started a long-term cooperation. The first project after The Wiz was Off The Wall, whose recordings end 1978 started.

The only 21-year-old Michael had in making this solo album much more creative independence enforced than in his previous solo albums which were released on Motown.So he (co-) wrote and produced quite a few numbers and certain he largely for yourself how the album was supposed to sound like. One of the conditions was that the album had to sound different than the work he had made with his brothers in The Jacksons.

The result was an album that produced some great hits-especially "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough -and that post a successful and promising step was to the unprecedented success that Jackson and Jones in the 1980s would score with Thriller and Bath . ==Numbers[ Edit] == ===Album[ Edit] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Composers in parentheses after the title

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 * 1) Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough (6: 05) (Michael Jackson)
 * 2) Rock with You (3: 40) (Rod Temperton)
 * 3) Workin' Day and Night (5: 14) (Michael Jackson)
 * 4) Get on the floor (4: 39) (Michael Jackson/Louis Johnson)
 * 5) Off the Wall (4: 06) (Rod Temperton)
 * 6) Girlfriend (3: 05) (Paul McCartney)
 * 7) She's Out of My Life (3: 38) (Tom Bahler)
 * 8) I Can't Help It (6: 06) with Patti Austin (Stevie Wonder/Susaye Greene)
 * 9) It's the Falling in Love (3: 48) (Carole Bayer Sager/David Foster)
 * 10) Burn This Disco Out (5: 24) (Rod Temperton)
 * 11. Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough (demo version)
 * 12. Workin' Day and Night (demo version)
 * (Supplemented with some spoken interviews with Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton)