No Janet. In no particular order:

The Finest
Optimistic
A Broken Heart Can Mend
Human
Sensitivity

5. What's missing - Alexander
4. The heat of heat - Patti Austin
3. Never knew love like this - Alexander/Cherelle
2. Tender Love - The Force MD's
1. Encore - Cheryl Lynn

Never heard this one, the strings!

it in the late 80's.


It was too fitting to my R&B sensibilities.

Cherrelle

No One’s Gonna Love You
The Finest
Saturday Love
What’s Missing
Crucial (Dance Remix)

This was TOUGH to do.

Tender Love - Force MDs
Human - Human League
Saturday Love - Cherrelle & Alexander O'Neal
Can You Stand the Rain? - New Edition
Tell Me If You Still Care - SOS Band

I was tempted to list a gang of honorable mentions but that started to feel like I was cheating.

Selfishly I’m hoping folks will post something I’m not familiar with or make me revisit a record I haven’t heard in a while.

>Selfishly I’m hoping folks will post something I’m not
>familiar with or make me revisit a record I haven’t heard in
>a while.

^^^ This is always the best thing about list posts on OKP. Someone always mentions something I've never heard before or something I haven't heard in a long time.

My honorable mentions...

Usher - Can U Help Me?
Alexander O'Neal - Sunshine
Alexander O'Neal - Criticize
Johnny Gill - Giving My All To You
Mary J Blige - No More Drama
SOS Band - Just Be Good To Me
SOS Band- No One's Gonna Love You
SOS Band - The Finest
Herb Alpert - Making Love in the Rain
Ralph Tresvant - Sensitivity
Ralph Tresvant - Rated R

Maybe a top 20. Five ain’t cutting it.

I hadn’t heard this one and didn’t know they produced the Johnny Gill.

Both are dope!

'Rain' is the quintessential ballad (so much so they redid the same formula on Rewrite The Memories), but Johnny took them to church and back on 'Heartbreak'

<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up...
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Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect.
Game: Like Gladys Knight.
Jay: Aretha Franklin.
Game: Word, I like her too.
Jay: Nigga...

even when you take Janet out of the mix

especially after Leon Sylvers III hyped it himself. Jimmy and Terry talked about how the recorded version didn't have the "chili sauce".

Miss U Much - Janet (That bridge makes me lose my damn mind)
A Broken Heart Can Mend - Alex O'Neal
All True Man - Alex O'Neal
Tender Love - Force MDs
Lonely - Janet (Off of Rhythm nation)

Lonely
Making Love In the Rain
Saturday Love
Tender Love
Wrap My Body Tight

Innocent (Alex O'Neal)
What Have You Done For Me Lately (Janet)
Encore (Cheryl Lynn)
You're Not My Kind of Girl (New Edition)
Rub You The Right Way (Johnny Gill)

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The first 5 that popped up:
Optimistic - Sounds of Blackness
No One’s Gonna Love You - SOS Band
Human - Human League
Money Can’t Buy You Love - Ralph Tresvant
Encore - Cheryl Lynn

Next random 5
Just Be Good To Me - SOS
Warm - Change
Tender Love - Force
What’s Missing - Alexander Oneal
Making Love In the Rain - Herb Alpert

I could give another 20 easy

It's hard to imagine as a kid jamming to the music of Flyte Tyme that Jimmy Jam would eventually become my follower on Twitter today.

Cherelle's Encore was one of those songs that really stood out to me as a kid and started my love for music. That's one hell of a groove.

Optimistic is so uplifting

Human is as well and one of the reasons why I delved deep into 80's Pop

I love Alexander O'Neal's What Can I Say To Make You Love Me

S.O.S. Band's The Finest

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1. Just Be Good To Me (SOS)
2. I Didn't Mean To Turn You On (Cherelle)
3. Tender Love (Force MDs)
4. If It Isn't Love (NE)
5. Optimistic (SOB)

I like when top 5 producer posts go up because it gives me an excuse to look through the discography.

I always look at the stuff I own first, and yeah I didn't know Jam & Lewis did this for Gwen Stefani's first solo album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HjCAvzeY-E

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When I first saw this post I wanted to avoid it cause I knew that it would be kind of hard to chose just a top five of James & Terry; but after weeks of seeing this post I decided to sit down and come up with a list, but after a few days I couldn't do just a top five, so I decided to do a top ten list of songs written & produced by them that isn't a Janet Jackson song; so here you go...

(1) New Edition "If It Isn't Love"
(2) Sounds Of Blackness "Optimistic"
(3) Alexander O'Neal feat. Cherrelle "Never Knew Love Like This"
(4) S.O.S. Band "No One's Gonna Love You"
(5) Human League "Human"
(6) Ralph Tresvant "Sensitivity"
(7) Mariah Carey "Petals"
(8) Cherrelle feat. Alexander O'Neal "Saturday Love"
(9) Ralph Tresvant "Money Can't Buy You Love"
(10) New Edition "Can't You Stand The Rain"

and a bonus goes to: Luther Vandross & Janet Jackson "Money Can't Buy You Love" (sorry but I had to put this on the list, plus it's not just a Janet song, it's got Ralph Tresvant, Mike Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe singing on it as well).

https://tinyurl.com/y4ba6hog

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"We in here talking about later career Prince records
& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak

And idk how or why lol. I DO like the version I have better but really no clue where I got it from

Also I know there are UK single & double disc versions of Janet's "Design Of A Decade" compilation that have "Best Things In Life Are Free (CJ Mackintosh Remix)" on it but isn't on any of the US versions, maybe that's the version you have.

https://tinyurl.com/y4ba6hog

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"We in here talking about later career Prince records
& your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine
trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak