BEST perfunctory superstar collab of the early 80s - 'Ebony & Ivory' vs 'Say Say Say' vs 'Just Good Friends' vs 'The Girl Is Mine'

there's also "get it"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKdQPDZ63DA

“Say Say Say” and it’s not even close.

ah yes i always forget about "get it"

"Say Say Say" is so good.

I accidentally listen to get it because I like the song before it on the album - "skeletons", a real jam.

Imagine the perfunctory John Lennon/Stevie Wonder collaborations there would have been had John lived.

Say

i like "say say say" when i hear it but hardly remember anything about it until the next time it comes around

Re : "Just Good Friends", it's obviously a very "light" song but I've always liked it. Maybe because it's basically the only moment with some joy on Bad and to me, the best MJ songs radiate joy (with some exceptions).

The Way You Make Me Feel is pretty joyful

Yes, that would be the other one (and also a better song than "JGF").

"State of Shock" is mia in this (mostly miserable) mix. Weird Al even covered it in (iirc) one of his polka medleys.

If we're including 'State of Shock' we could also have 'Dancing In The Street' and 'Under Pressure'.

Voting Just Good Friends. Not amazing but Say Say Say is the only other one i like but Paul doesn't fit on it

You know what I never knew existed until a few months ago?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAnVRbF2dUw

This is some sophisticated schlock (from 1979).

(That's MJ on backing vocals, plus Richard Page, later of Mr. Mister!)

"Say Say Say" has a super-sleek production -- I thought for years Q had produced it.

Imagine the perfunctory John Lennon/Stevie Wonder collaborations there would have been had John lived.

― Guayaquil (eephus!),

Lennon was producing Harry Nilsson's latest album, Pussy Cats, when Paul and Linda McCartney dropped in after the first night of the sessions, aka "the Jim Keltner Fan Club Hour", at Burbank Studios on 28 March 1974. They were joined by Stevie Wonder, Harry Nilsson, Jesse Ed Davis, May Pang, Bobby Keys and producer Ed Freeman for an impromptu jam session.

Lennon was in his "lost weekend", separated from Yoko Ono and living in Los Angeles with Pang. Although he and McCartney hadn't seen each other in three years and had lashed out at each other in the press, according to Pang they resumed their friendship as if nothing had happened. The jam session proved not very productive musically. Lennon sounds to be on cocaine and is heard offering Wonder a snort on the first track, and on the fifth, asks someone to give him a snort. This is also the origin of the album title, where John Lennon clearly asks: "You wanna snort, Steve? A toot? It's goin' round". In addition, Lennon seems to be having trouble with his microphone and headphones.

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