My Special Love is the second studio album by American singer La Toya Jackson

La Toya Jackson

La Toya Yvonne Jackson is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, television personality, actress, businesswoman, philanthropist, activist and former model. She is the fifth child of the Jackson family...

. The album is one of Jackson's more successful, peaking at #175 on the Billboard Hot 200 charts. After the album's limited success, it fell into obscurity, receiving a limited re-release on CD in Japan in the early 1990s, which was quickly deleted. This was the last Jackson

The Jacksons (musical family)

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 album released with Polydor Records

Polydor Records

Polydor is a record label owned by Universal Music Group, headquartered in the United Kingdom.-Beginnings:Polydor was originally an independent branch of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft. Its name was first used as an export label in 1924, the British and German branches of the Gramophone...

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Allmusic called it "the defining album of Jackson's career." stating that "Though her voice isn't particularly strong, Jackson makes up for what she lacks in power with an energetic, uninhibited approach to the music. Benefiting from solid R&B-funk arrangements and the well-rounded production of Ollie E. Brown, her second album is a flavorful mixture of lively uptempo romps and smooth-sailing slow jams"

The first single from the album was "Stay the Night

Stay the Night (La Toya Jackson song)

"Stay the Night" is a 1980 song by Billy Ocean taken from his album City Limit. It was released as the follow-up to his hit single "Are You Ready?", and was also released as the b-side to this single in some countries...

", a cover of the 1980 Billy Ocean

Billy Ocean

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 single, and was moderately successful. The second and final single was "I Don't Want You to Go", which had a very small release and failed to chart. The album also includes "Giving You Up", a duet with brother Randy, and "Camp Kuchi Kaiai", which features background vocals by sister Janet

Janet Jackson

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Track listing

1. "Stay the Night
   Stay the Night (La Toya Jackson song)
   "Stay the Night" is a 1980 song by Billy Ocean taken from his album City Limit. It was released as the follow-up to his hit single "Are You Ready?", and was also released as the b-side to this single in some countries...
   
   " – 5:32
2. "Fill You Up" – 5:09
3. "Love Song" – 4:03
4. "Giving You Up" (with Randy Jackson) – 3:05
5. "I Don't Want You to Go
   I Don't Want You to Go (Lani Hall song)
   -La Toya Jackson version:"I Don't Want You to Go" is the second single from American singer La Toya Jackson's second album My Special Love....
   
   " – 4:18
6. "Camp Kuchi Kaiai" – 3:30
7. "Summertime with You" – 5:44
8. "Special Love" – 5:02