Centipede (album)
Rebbie Jackson album
Centipede is the debut studio album by American singer Rebbie Jackson, released in the fall of 1984 by Columbia Records. It album spawned two top-forty Billboard Hot 100 charting hits, the most famous being the title track.
Background
Despite having worked with her family on the Jacksons' variety TV show and having been a backing singer for the likes of Betty Wright in the late '70s, Jackson was the last Jackson family sibling to release an album at the age of 34, mostly due to wanting to raise her two young daughters, Stacee and Yashi, in a secure family environment, waiting until she felt they were old enough.
The recording of the album was a family affair, as her brother Michael Jackson wrote, produced and sang backing vocals on the title track. Brothers Marlon, Jackie, Tito and Randy co-wrote "Come Alive It's Saturday Night", with the latter two producing the song as well. Tito also co-wrote "Hey Boy" with his wife, the late Delores "Dee Dee" Martes. The rest of the album was produced by Wayne Henderson.
The album includes two covers, the Miracles' "A Fork in the Road" and Prince's "I Feel for You". Chaka Khan, who earned a #1 hit with her well-known cover of the latter song, released it as a single a mere week before Jackson's album was released.
Commercial performance
Three singles were released from the album.
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