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"Plaything"
Single by Rebbie Jackson
from the album R U Tuff Enuff
B-side	"Distant Conversation"
Released	January 1988 (1988-01)
Recorded	1987
Studio	The Lab Recording Studios (West Orange, New Jersey), Backdoor Recording Studios (Huntington Station, New York)
Genre	R&B synth-pop new jack swing
Label	Columbia
Producer(s)	David "Pic" Conley, David Townsend
Rebbie Jackson singles chronology
"You Send the Rain Away" (1986) "Plaything" (1988) "R U Tuff Enuff" (1988)

Plaything is a song by American singer Rebbie Jackson, the first single from her third album R U Tuff Enuff. It reached #8 on the US R&B chart, making it her second biggest hit on that chart after 1984's Centipede.

After Centipede and You Send the Rain Away it was the third single of hers that had an accompanying music video (overall she has four, the video for Yours Faithfully was released ten years after Plaything.)

Versions

• Plaything (Album version) –
• Plaything (7" Radio Version) – 3:50
• Plaything (Extended Dance Version) – 5:00
• Plaything (Instrumental)
• Plaything (Play Dub Version) – 5:50

Sources

• The Jackson Family Database

• 1988 singles
• Rebbie Jackson songs
• 1988 songs
• Columbia Records singles
• New jack swing songs