"Get It" | ||||
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Single by Stevie Wonder featuring Michael Jackson | ||||
from the album Characters | ||||
B-side | "Get It" (instrumental) | |||
Released | May 5, 1988 | |||
Recorded | September 1987 | |||
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Genre | R&B | |||
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Label | Tamla | |||
Songwriter(s) | Stevie Wonder | |||
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Stevie Wonder singles chronology | ||||
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Michael Jackson singles chronology | ||||
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"Get It" is a song recorded by American singer-songwriter Stevie Wonder with a guest vocal by American pop recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released by Tamla as the third single from Wonder's twenty-first studio album, Characters (1987). At the time of the single's release, and their albums released in the same year, Wonder worked with Jackson on his top-selling Bad album for their first duet "Just Good Friends". "Get It" was a R&B chart hit, peaking at number four. On the US Billboard Hot 100 it peaked at number 80. Overseas, the single became a moderate hit. In the UK, the single reached number 37 on the official UK Singles Chart.
Jackson and Wonder had a history of collaborating with each other over the years. The first dating back to 1974, in which Wonder crafted and produced a Jackson 5 album, which was eventually shelved. [1] (One of those songs recorded, "Buttercup" appears on the 2009 compilation album I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters , released after Jackson's death.)
That same year, Michael and his brothers provided backing vocals to Wonder's hit "You Haven't Done Nothin'" from his parent album Fullfillingness' First Finale . Both Wonder and Jackson were part of an all-star choir included on Donna Summer's 1982 single "State of Independence" and 1985's "We Are the World", which Jackson co-wrote and both singles produced by Quincy Jones.
Jackson worked with Wonder again for the song "I Can't Help It" for Jackson's 1979 breakthrough album Off the Wall , which was written by Wonder and former Supremes member Susaye Greene. Within a year, Jackson also did background vocal work on "All I Do" from Wonder's platinum-selling Hotter than July album.
Cash Box called it a "light dance tune, heavy on groove, low on fat" that is "exciting and accessible" and praised Wonder's "patented skipping base feel and percussive sound" and Jackson's singing. [2] John Tague from NME viewed it as "a half-decent ditty that's more Jacko than Wonder." [3]
Chart (1988) | Peak position |
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Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [4] | 15 |
Finland (Suomen virallinen singlelista) [5] | 22 |
UK Singles (OCC) [6] | 37 |
US Billboard Hot 100 [7] | 80 |
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs ( Billboard ) [8] | 4 |