For other uses, see Rock with You (disambiguation).
"Rock with You"
Side-A label of US 7" vinyl single
Single by Michael Jackson
from the album Off the Wall
B-side
"Working Day and Night"
Released
October 1979
Recorded
December 1978 – June 1979
Genre
Disco
funk
Length
3:38 (album version)
3:20 (single/video version)
Label
Epic
Songwriter(s)
Rod Temperton
Producer(s)
Quincy Jones
Michael Jackson singles chronology
"Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" (1979)
"Rock with You" (1979)
"Off the Wall" (1979)
Music video
"Rock with You" on YouTube
"Rock with You" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson, written by Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones. It was first offered to Karen Carpenter, while she was working on her first solo album, but she turned it down.[1] It was released in October 1979, by Epic Records as the second single from Jackson's fifth solo studio album Off the Wall (1979). It was also the third number-one hit of the 1980s,[2] a decade in which the pop singles chart would quickly be dominated by Jackson.
It reached number one on both the US pop (Jackson's third number-one on this chart) and R&B charts (Jackson's second number one on that chart). It spent a total of four weeks at the top position on the former chart from January 19 to February 9, 1980, and six weeks (from January 5 to February 9, 1980) on the latter chart. According to Billboard, the song was the fourth biggest single of 1980.[3] It is also considered one of the last hits of the disco era.[4]
It was re-released as a single on February 27, 2006, as part of the Visionary: The Video Singles box set. In 2021, Rolling Stone placed it at number 354 on its list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time·[5]
^"Karen Carpenter Avenue: Behind The Music: Karen Carpenter (Solo)". Karenannecarpenter.blogspot.com. April 21, 2013. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
^"Billboard" (PDF). Americanradiohistory.com. 1980. Retrieved April 23, 2021.
^[1] Archived May 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^"50 Best Michael Jackson Songs". Rolling Stone. June 23, 2014. Archived from the original on June 26, 2014.
^"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. September 15, 2021.
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