Hear 4 full length tracks exclusively on www.jackson5.com/amazon Stunning Vocals By A Young Michael Jackson Heard For The First Time On Single-CD Set I WANT YOU BACK! UNRELEASED MASTERS LOS ANGELES, Oct. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters (Motown/UMe), issued Nov. 10, 2009, brings to the public for the first time 12 unreleased...
This is, quite simply, the best piece of investigative music journalism I've read in a long, long time: "The Jackson Find" by Jake Austen for the Chicago Reader. Many hardcore fans know that the Jackson 5 released a pre-Motown...
{All photographs belong to Norman's Rare Guitars} If you know the story of the Jackson 5, then you probably know a little something about their breakup, as well. When the family chose to sign with CBS records in 1975, Jermaine opted to stay with Motown. This choice was made mostly due to his marriage [...]
First off, how do slave trade and theme park even end up in the same sentence? Secondly, where exactly do the Jackson 5 fit into this equation? Thirdly, not that things aren't weird enough, did I mention that the creator of the Power Rangers is in on this as well?
Times have changed a bit. It's hard to imagine a boy or girl band in 2008 doing this song, but in 1970 psych was in. Goes a long way in showing how close Motown (Norman Whitfield in particular) was watching the Detroit scene, and how connected George Clinton was to the normally in house Hitsville crew.
A few months back I made a post about Afrika Bambaata's Death Mix, a seminal document in hip hop history from around 1979. The mix features breakbeat tunes early hip hop DJ's were spinning and some party raps. One of the tunes on the Death Mix is It's Great To Be Here from the Jackson 5.Taken from the J5's '71 LP Maybe Tomorrow (their 6th in 2 years), produced by the no longer mysterious Corp...
For some reason this news didn't sound that bizarre and unbelievable. But, then again, in the world of Michael Jackson reaching new bizarre and unbelievable heights might be impossible at the point. The news is that the Jackson 5 are reuniting for a tour according to Jermaine Jackson. The brothers Jermaine, Jackie, Marlon and Randy also are hoping to include baby brother Michael for the jaunt. ...