Jermaine Stewart was an American singer and dancer who scored one bright, knowing hit in the mid-1980s. "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off", released in 1985, is a cheerful, danceable pop-soul song with a famously wholesome message about taking romance slowly, and it became an international hit, the record that defines him.
Stewart had a couple of smaller hits, but nothing approached the reach of that one breezy single before his life was cut short in 1997.
On streaming, "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off" sits near 50 million plays, while his next most-streamed track trails at under two million. That sends the ratio above 32, far past our 5.0 line.
By our measure Jermaine Stewart is a certified one-hit wonder. His one big hit found a second life decades later when Ella Eyre took her cover of it into the charts, a neat echo of the song's enduring appeal. It is simply that this one cheerful, message-driven single stands far ahead of everything else he recorded. Decades on, its wholesome refrain remains an instantly quotable piece of 80s pop, far better remembered than the singer who first delivered it.