December 2010
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Closing Night in Mobile, Alabama, 1971 →
Caught on Tape in Jacksonville, Florida →
Midway through the Jackson 5’s Holiday Tour, an ABC News crew caught up with them to get some footage for a news feature on the rising popularity of the Jackson 5. I’ve never seen the final report that was made in late December of 1970, but the raw footage has been circulating among fans for years. It’s kind of maddening to watch because it jumps from scene to scene, in no...
Beach Boys →
If you’ve got an extra £2300 in your pocket, you can buy a limited edition print of this wonderful photo taken by Lawrence Schiller in 1969 of the Jackson 5 dancing on the beach. Or, if you’re poor like me, you can just be satisfied that someone verified the year this was taken and enjoy the jpg
J5 in Music City in 1970 →
You think that with a city the size of Nashville, there’d be more of a trail of the Jackson 5’s first concert there on December 29, 1970. All I could find was a grainy image from a publication called The Kaleidoscope, announcing the Jackson 5’s upcoming concert. Pat Adams, the website owner, was a young reporter who had just started writing for the publication. I wrote to Pat,...
39 years ago...
On Dec. 24th, 1971, the Jackson 5 gave a charity concert for the Foundation for the Junior Blind, Los Angeles, CA.
36 years ago..."I Am Love"
On Dec. 23th, 1974, Motown released “I Am Love”, one of the last J5 singles on Motown.
I AM LOVE (Mel Larson / Jerry Marcellino / Don Fenceton / Roderick H. Rancifer)
the eyes of love will watch you as you go from day to day the hands of love will catch you when you fall along the way my arms will hold and be with you your whole life through ’cause i am love and i’m in love with...
Song of the Week: Give Love on Christmas Day →
A J5 Christmas Portrait →
A Christmas Memory →
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And the winners are...
Congratulations to Jérôme Chaverot, Alain Ragondet, JB Swidurski, Alain Egat, Laura Munroe. They win a box set of “The Very Best Of Michael Jackson & Jackson 5/ Diana Ross & the Supremes”.
38 years ago... Daddy's Home
On Dec. 15th, 1972, “Daddy’s Home”, Jermaine Jackson’s first hit, was released by Motown.
More details on jackson5abc.com
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41 years ago...
On December 14th, 1969, the Jackson 5 appeared for the first time on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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Happy Birthday Jermaine ! @jermjackson5
Today is Jermaine’s Birthday!! jackson5abc.com wishes him a great day!!
Jermaine’s biography on jackson5abc.com Jermaine Jackson’s Discography on iTunes
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"I'll Be There", inducted into the Grammy Hall Of...
“I’ll Be There” is one of the the 30 songs that will be inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2011. It joins “I Want You Back,” which was inducted back in 1999, making it the second J5 song to make it into the Hall of Fame. Full press release here. For the record, “I’ll Be There” has been in my own personal Hall of Fame since September 1,...
Don't Ever Give Anyone Your Microphone...... →
I’m not sure why a local dinner theater would want to reenact scenes from The Jacksons: An American Dream, and I’m even less sure why they’d put it up on YouTube. Even though this is my favorite…
Rare Photos of Michael in the Motown Studio →
Photos of the Jackson 5 at work in the Motown studio are hard to come by, which is surprising when you consider how many hours they spent there. Here are a couple of early photos that I just came…
Just How Rare is ABC on Gold Vinyl? →
This eBay auction makes an interesting claim about the gold vinyl ABC promo with the original printed sleeve:ABC GOLD VINYL PROMO w/CUSTOM SLEEVE~Michael Jackson 5ONLY 150 PRODUCED ~ ONLY 26 IN…
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"Jermaine" 30th anniversary!
30 years ago, Motown released “Jermaine”, the 7th Jermaine Jackson’s solo album. After the success of “Let’s Get Serious”, Jermaine came back with his most consistent album ever, with amazing songs like “All Because Of You” and “First You Laugh And Then You Cry”.
Jermaine produced the album and wrote several songs, including “You Like Me Don’t You Worry” and “You...
November 2010
18 posts
When in Detroit, You Better Shop Around →
On my way home from Tampa today, I had just enough of a layover to stop at the Motown Music Review shop. Nestled between a Brookstone and a DTW in the middle of Terminal A, you can hear the classic…