As President of American Artists Records, Promotions Giant John Dote' and his partner and good friend Olen Harrison launched What Have You Done For Me Lately by JANET JACKSON which charted at number 2 in BILLBOARD Magazine. Oakland Tribune

Former Bakersfield record store owner and record promoter launched Janet Jackson

In 1986, Janet Jackson released an album titled "CONTROL" on A&M RECORDS. "What Have You Done For Me Lately" was the first single from the LP. It was her third album and the first two fared poorly. This one, though, was about to launch her like a moonshot.

The single was brought to Olen Harrison by RECORD PROMOTER JOHN DOTE' and Harrison owned Advance Music in San Francisco, a one stop shop with distribution. From there, the disc, promoted by Dote' and Harrison, climbed near the top of the local music charts and went on to become a nationwide hit credited with launching the bigtime career Jackson was seeking.

Harrison, a southerner by birth, was living in Palo Alto, Calif., when, in the early 1950s, he made a move to Bakersfield, Calif., where he worked as a disc jockey at radio stations KBIS and KAFY while owning a retail record store called The Record Shop. In 1955 he went to SAN FRANCISCO and continued in the music business until the 1989 earthquake. He died in 2000. 

Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 30 years. The youngest child of the Jackson family, she began her career with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976 and went on to appear in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times and Fame.