Baby Sister
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Single by La Toya Jackson | ||||
from the album Imagination | ||||
Released | 1985 | |||
Length | 3:09 | |||
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"Baby Sister" is a 1985 single by American singer La Toya Jackson, the first taken from her fourth album Imagination; which was released the following year. The single was released in a 7" format in Japan and later in the United States.
Background
Allmusic described the song as "too cute and overdone to be taken seriously" however The Baltimore Afro-American complimented the track as "new waveish" "ear candy".[1][2] The single is most notable for being a winner of the "Outstanding Song Award" at the sixteenth annual World Popular Song Festival on October 27, 1985 in Tokyo, Japan, where Jackson performed the song live with younger sister Janet on backup vocals.[3][4] Jackson brought home a silver medallion and $1000 in prize money.[5] The single includes an instrumental mix of "Baby Sister".
Track listing
- JP 7" single (07SP 927)[6]
- Album version – 3:09
- Album instrumental version – 4:12
Janice Marie Johnson version
The song originally appeared on Janice Marie Johnson's 1984 solo album One Taste of Honey. Johnson is best known as a member of the band A Taste of Honey.
References
- v
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- La Toya Jackson
- My Special Love
- Heart Don't Lie
- Imagination
- La Toya
- Bad Girl
- No Relations
- Formidable
- From Nashville to You
- Stop in the Name of Love
- Starting Over
- La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family
- Starting Over
- "If You Feel the Funk"
- "Night Time Lover"
- "Stay the Night"
- "I Don't Want You to Go"
- "Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'"
- "Heart Don't Lie"
- "Hot Potato"
- "Private Joy"
- "Baby Sister"
- "He's a Pretender"
- "Imagination"
- "Oops, Oh No!" with Cerrone
- "Yes, I'm Ready"
- "(Ain't Nobody Loves You) Like I Do"
- "(Tell Me) She Means Nothing To You At All"
- "You're Gonna Get Rocked"
- "Such a Wicked Love"
- "You Blew"
- "Bad Girl"
- "You and Me"
- "Sexual Feeling"
- "Why Don't You Want My Love?"
- "Oops, Oh No! (Remix)"
- "Sexbox"
- "Let's Rock the House"
- "I Can't Help Myself"
- "Don't Break My Heart" with Tom Beser
- "Just Wanna Dance"
- "Free the World"
- "Home"
- "Feels Like Love"
- "Trouble"
- Jackson family
- The Jacksons
- Life with La Toya
- Jack Gordon
- Gordon v. Gordon
- Category