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Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis have been working together for 40 years, producing some of the biggest R&B records of all time. In their four decades of working together, the fedora-wearing giants of R&B music have written and produced over 40 top-ten hits. They’ve worked with Prince, Babyface, Usher, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson, and more.
All that producing hadn’t left them a lot of time to write songs of their own, but luckily for us, that changed. When they spoke to Bullseye in 2021, they had just released their first-ever album as recording artists. It’s called “Jam & Lewis, Volume 1,” and it sure was worth the wait. It features vocals from a bunch of their collaborators: Mary J. Blige, Boyz II Men, Morris Day, and more. They talked about the album, the hits they contributed vocals to, and the jaw-dropping synthesizer work they did on the Janet Jackson single “Love Will Never Do.”
A version of this interview aired in August, 2021.
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- Jimmy Jam
- Terry Lewis
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