Off the Wall

Off the Wall
Off the Wall
Studio album by Michael Jackson
Released	August 10, 1979
Recorded	December 1978 – June 1979
Studio	Allen Zentz Recording; Westlake Audio; Cherokee Studios; (Los Angeles, California)
Genre	Disco; funk; R&B;
Length	42:28
Label	Epic
Producer	Quincy Jones; Michael Jackson;
Michael Jackson chronology
Singles from Off the Wall
	"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"; Released: July 10, 1979; "Rock with You"; Released: November 3, 1979; "Off the Wall"; Released: February 2, 1980; "She's Out of My Life"; Released: April 19, 1980; "Girlfriend"; Released: July 16, 1980;

Off the Wall is the fifth studio album by the American singer Michael Jackson. It was released in 1979. 5 of the 10 songs on the album were released as singles: "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough", "Rock with You", "Off the Wall", "She's Out of My Life", and "Girlfriend". Three of them had videos. It sold over 8 million copies in the United States and 20 million copies around the world. The album got good reviews. Rolling Stone compared his vocals to the "breathless, dreamy stutter" of Stevie Wonder and described his tenor as "extraordinary beautiful".

The first single, "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough", reached No.1. It won a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance in 1980. However, Jackson was disappointed at this. He said, "It was totally unfair that it didn't get Record of the Year and it can never happen again".

Off the Wall was Jackson's first album produced by Quincy Jones. In 2001, a special edition of the album was released by Sony Records with 9 extra tracks. Rolling Stone put the album at number 68 on their list of the 500 greatest albums of all time in 2003. In 2008, the album became part of the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Track listing

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough"	Michael Jackson	Quincy Jones Jackson (co.)	6:05
2.	"Rock with You"	Rod Temperton	Jones	3:40
3.	"Workin' Day and Night"	Jackson	Jones Jackson (co.)	5:14
4.	"Get on the Floor"	Jackson Louis Johnson	Jones Jackson (co.)	4:50

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
5.	"Off the Wall"	Temperton	Jones	4:06
6.	"Girlfriend"	Paul McCartney	Jones	3:04
7.	"She's Out of My Life"	Tom Bahler	Jones	3:38
8.	"I Can't Help It"	Stevie Wonder Susaye Greene	Jones	4:30
9.	"It's the Falling in Love" (feat. Patti Austin)	Carole Bayer Sager David Foster	Jones	3:48
10.	"Burn This Disco Out"	Temperton	Jones	3:42

Notes

The original LP, cassette pressings and some early CD issues pressed in Japan contain the original mixes of "Rock with You" and "Get on the Floor".
Every song on the album is available either as A or B sides of single releases both in 7 or 12 inch format. Seven of the songs out of ten saw US release either as A or B sides and the UK had the remaining three songs available also as A or B sides of singles. As of 2000 the singles are available in both 7 and 12 inch formats and few different mixes, even though some releases have been more targeted to a UK/Europe audience. The original album mix of the title track is not available as a single and the original mix was kept for future reissues of the album, unlike the two songs mentioned in the upper note, the single mix did not replace the title track on all future reissues.

References

↑ "Virgin TV Edit - TV, Sport, Movies & More". Virgin Media. Archived from the original on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2013-11-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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[1] "Virgin TV Edit - TV, Sport, Movies & More". Virgin Media. Archived from the original on 2019-04-28. Retrieved 2019-02-14.

[2] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-04-10. Retrieved 2013-11-15.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)