(02-28-2019 12:14 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Funny, Hog, I was listening to this the other morning while working out and thought about posting it. From the earlier album before he really blew up as an (alleged) adult and changed his natural looks.

Real piano, real electric guitars, real bass guitar, real drums, real horns. Even real spoons on bottles (courtesy of Michael and his siblings). Oh, and his real voice. No auto-tune. Recorded when he was about 20 years old. Oh, and he wrote it and produced it, too.

Artist: Michael Jackson
Album: Off The Wall
Song: "Workin' Day and Night"
August 10, 1979 Epic Records

I hadn't picked up any MJ in over a year when I was looking for something upbeat for my workout. Just saw today that there is/was some kind of TV show concerning his rather unsavory-sounding predilections. I think of MJ as a musician and an enormously talented person who because of the way he was raised and developed never grew into a man psychologically. Coupled with his enormous wealth and popularity it opened the door for some disappointing choices and possibly mu8ch more. I certainly wouldn't let my kid have been alone with him on a "visit." But we do listen to his songs once in a while, and I use it as a parable of what can happen when one loses touch with normality, reality and God in today's world in favor of worshiping fame, money and themselves or their own perceived success.

I will enjoy MJ, especially his earlier years as a tremendously talented artist.