#jackson 5ive

[stone-cold-groove]

Step inside the magical world of ABC. TV Guide magazine ad promoting ABC-TV’s new Saturday morning lineup - 1972.

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cartoon michael i love you

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I Want You Back but it's in Japanese.

[thecoparoom]

Jackson 5 in Money Earnin' Mt. Vernon, 1975

[gregorygalloway]

The Jackson 5ive's 9th studio album was released on 5 September 1974.

While Michael had released 3 solo albums (Got to Be There, Ben, and Music & Me), he continued to record with his brothers, despite their waning popularity (their 1973 album, G.I.T.: Get It Together had only peaked at #100 in the US, their worst performing album to date). The Jacksons and producer Hal Davis decided to develop a concept album around the emerging dance music that would become disco.

The lead single, "Dancing Machine" (co-written by Davis with Don Fletcher and Dean Parks), released in February 1974, would go on to sell more than 3 million copies and peak at #2 in the US (and was the group's first Top Ten hit in 3 years). Dancing Machine, the album, would peak at #16, restoring the group's popularity.

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[moonwalkerizzy84]

The Jackson's 1984 Pepsi Commercial "Concert" Directed by: Bob Giraldi

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