Eight Forty-Eight Director Jason Marck: I’ll admit it. I was never a Michael Jackson fan. But I consider myself a pretty big music fan. So I can appreciate the sweet soul/pop of the Jackson 5. Same with the wonderful blend of pop, soul, r & b, rock, and even latin music that he fused together for the “Off The Wall” album. But this segment is called “That song reminds me of…“. So, the song is Billie Jean. And it reminds me of classic Letterman. To make a short story long, I worshiped Dave in the early 80’s, when he was first starting out on NBC. He used to rip his guests, and they would become visibly shaken and angry. It would ‘kill’, as they say in the business. Insane characters would appear, like Larry ‘Bud’ Melman, ‘Super Dave’ Osborne, and ‘Brother’ Theodore. When a joke bombed, watching Dave’s reaction was hilarious. Not like today when everything out of his mouth gets huge applause. Bottom line-I thought Dave was the King of Comedy. When Billie Jean hit the charts, he did this recurring bit where he would play the line “The kid is not my son”. But he swore that Jackson was singing “The CHAIR is not my son”. He would play it over and over, and the more he played it, the more it sounded like Jackson was actually singing “the chair is not my son”! Then Dave would play the song up to that line, stop the tape, and Paul Shaffer would sing “the chair is not my son”. I’m 12 or 13 years old, it’s midnight, (Letterman used to be on at 11:30) I’m up way too late, and I’m falling off the bed dying laughing, and my dad is watching it in the other room, also laughing at the bit and at the same time yelling ‘will ya go ta bed arreddy fer crissakes!‘. And that’s what that song reminds me of.