Love Will Never Do: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An audio cassette of Janet Jackson "Love Will Never Do" b/w "Without You" (1990).

2015.263.15a: An audio cassette tape. The cassette is white plastic with black type on each side. Both sides have headers reading: [PROGRAM ONE 4:32/LOVE WILL NEVER DO (WITHOUT YOU) / (SINGLE VERSION)/JANET JACKSON/CASSETTE SINGLE] on Side 1, and [PROGRAM TWO 4:48/LOVE WILL NEVER DO (WITHOUT YOU) / ("WORK IT OUT" 7" WITH INTRO/JANET JACKSON/CASSETTE SINGLE] on Side 2. The A&M Records logo, copyright information, and the cassette number [75021 1538 4] are featured on both sides.

2015.263.15b: An audio cassette paper jacket. The jacket is portrait orientation and features a color close-up photograph of Janet Jackson's face. White type on sleeve reads: [JANET / JACKSON / LOVE / WILL NEVER DO / without you / cassette single]. The back of the jacket has a black background with white type with production information.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1990
• Created by: Janet Jackson, American, born 1966
• Published by: A & M Records, American, 1962 - 1999
• Type: audio cassettes
• Medium: plastic , magnetic tape , ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W x D (cassette): 2 1/2 × 4 × 1/2 in. (6.4 × 10.2 × 1.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (jacket): 4 × 5 1/2 in. (10.2 × 14 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W x D (case): 2 3/4 × 4 5/16 × 11/16 in. (7 × 11 × 1.7 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Rhythm and blues (Music)
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2015.263.15abc
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Timothy Anne Burnside
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © 1989 A&M Records, Inc Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.