Do What You Do (Jermaine Jackson song)

"Do What You Do"
European release cover
Single by Jermaine Jackson
from the album Jermaine Jackson
B-side	"Tell Me I'm Not Dreamin' (Too Good to Be True)"
Released	October 1984 (US) January 1985 (EU) February 1, 1985 (UK)[1]
Recorded	1984
Genre	R&B
Length	4:46
Label	Arista
Songwriter(s)	Larry Ditommaso, Ralph Dino
Producer(s)	Jermaine Jackson
Jermaine Jackson singles chronology
"Dynamite" (1984) "Do What You Do" (1984) "When the Rain Begins to Fall" (1985)
Music video
"Do What You Do" on YouTube

"Do What You Do" is a song by American R&B singer Jermaine Jackson, sibling of singers Michael and Janet Jackson and former member of The Jackson 5. It was released as the second US-single from his 1984 album, entitled Jermaine Jackson in the United States but marketed as Dynamite in the United Kingdom and other countries. The song was released as the fourth single in Europe, as follow-up to the successful When the Rain Begins to Fall single.

This was one of Jermaine's first releases with Arista Records after a long recording career with Motown Records, first as a member of The Jackson 5, then later as a solo artist. Although Jermaine Jackson never achieved the same level of solo success as sister Janet or brother Michael, "Do What You Do" was one of six top 20 solo hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the singer. The song peaked at No. 13 on the Hot 100,^[2] No. 14 on the Billboard R&B chart, and spent three weeks atop the Billboard adult contemporary chart.^[3] In Canada it peaked on the RPM Top Singles chart at No. 29. The song was one of Jackson's biggest hits in the UK, where it reached No. 6 on the UK Singles Chart.^[4]

In the ballad, Jackson is requesting that his lover continue with certain enjoyable events they have both experienced in the past: Why don't you do what you do / when you did what you did to me?