This question has been niggling at me for a decade or so. There’s a version of Joe Jackson’s song, “It’s Different for Girls” that has Joe singing a duet with a woman. However on the album I have, he sings both parts. What album contains the duet? As a bonus, who’s the woman?
Damn - I just replied to this but it was lost.
Anyway, I Googled “Jackson different girls duet” and got a response saying it was with Joy Askew off a 1991 album called Stranger than Fiction. There was a Joe Jackson archives site that was the source. Hopefully that meets your needs.
NOW - how about my JJ needs? I have been looking for years to get a copy of a recording that he did for a Ridley Scott-directed Michelob ad - remember their old campaign that RS directed? The pitch was “The Night Belongs to Michelob” and featured Sinatra singing “Just the Way You Look Tonight” and other great music. One was JJ singing “Nighttime” - “I wanna beeee with youuuuuuu - in the Nighttime” and just rockin’ the piano.
I have tried so many places to try to find it and no luck…any ideas?
Nitpick. It was a 1991 CD single, not an album, just to make it even harder to find.
I’m not sure that I’d even want to hear it. Part of what makes the original so wonderful is that you can’t tell whether it’s the man or woman saying each line, and the meaning is entirely different depending on who’s saying what. I wouldn’t want to spoil that by having him make it explicit. I couldn’t ever hear it the same way again.
Wordman, I remember the song and I’ll be damned if I can figure out where it came from. It’s almost criminal that JJ’s catalog is mostly unobtainable. If any of you get a chance to see him live take it. I saw him in Phoenix a few years ago and the audience nearly blew the roof off the Web Theater with the response line in Is She Really Going Out With Him.
I have everything from Look Sharp to Body and Soul if you want to make an offer.
Padeye - well, the song is from a while ago - maybe as early as the '50’s or early '60’s. I know J. Geils had a cover of it on their, what, Love Stinks album? Joe Jackson covered it for this Michelob ad - I remember seeing it a few times and just loving it, but that way way before companies knew how to market themselves by making stuff like that available for purchase. I am pretty certain it was just done for the ad, not on a CD or other special release…
adam yax - if you have a CD with that song on it, count me in!
Well, the original wersion is on I’m the Man and I do have that. However, if the duet came out in the 90’s - that is after I stopped buying Joe Jackson albums.
I think that Padeye might be right about JJ’s stuff not being in print. Look Sharp is, IMO, one of the best Pop\Rock albums ever- every song is good and fun. It never occured to me that it wouldn’t always be available on CD,