Come Give Your Love To Me

Album: Janet Jackson (1982)
Charted: 58
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Songfacts®:

  • Janet Jackson had two chart hits from her 1982 self-titled debut album: The lead single, "Young Love," at #64, and the second single, "Come Give Your Love To Me," at #58.

    That's pretty impressive, but in Jackson lore it's a mere sidenote to the album her brother Micheal released that year: Thriller, which had seven Top 10 hits and became the best-selling album (worldwide) of all time.

    Janet, though, was just getting started and wasn't all that interested in music at the time. She was 16 and more into acting, with a role on the TV series Diff'rent Strokes. It wasn't until her third album, Control in 1986, that she dedicated herself to music. Over the next 15 years, she rivaled her brother in pop stardom.
  • Unlike Jackson's first single, "Young Love," this song is a little mature for a 16-year-old to sing. She plays the part of a girl who has fallen hard for a guy and is looking to win his affections. "So there's no doubt, I'll spell it, come give it to me," she tells him.
  • The song was written by Charmaine Sylvers and Glen Barbee, and produced by Foster Sylvers and Jerry Weaver.

    Barbee and Charmaine Sylvers previously teamed to write a song for The Whispers called "In The Raw." Charmaine and Foster Sylvers were both members of the family band The Sylvers, who had a hit with "Boogie Fever" in 1976.

    Jackson at this time didn't have much say in what songs she recorded. She did the sessions between tapings of Diff'rent Strokes.

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