Let's Get Serious - Single Version

This was written and produced by Stevie Wonder, who also contributed backing vocals to this track. He's also credited on the drums, piano, guitar, and synthesizer.

When The Jackson 5 left Motown for Epic Records, Jermaine Jackson opted to remain with the label as a solo artist as he was then married to Hazel Gordy, the daughter of Motown owner Berry Gordy. He recorded a couple of unsuccessful albums so Berry Gordy became concerned about his son-in-law's waning career. When he heard a track Stevie Wonder was working on called "Let's Get Serious," he thought it would be ideal for Jermaine and persuaded Stevie to let his son-in-law record it.

In this funky love song, Jackson falls for a girl and tries to get her to commit, singing "Let's get serious." It topped the R&B chart for six weeks in 1980, making it the longest-running #1 involving Wonder since "Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours" topped the tally a decade earlier. Both tunes were co-written by Lee Garrett, a former nightclub singer who befriended Wonder at the Michigan School for the Blind.