The quintet's Third Album (1970) continued the trend with another huge crossover smash. The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage (4:19)ĭuring the fall of 1970, pop music lovers remained in the grip of Jackson 5 fever. However, the cuts credited to "the Corporation" with Bobby Taylor and instrumentalists Deke Richards (guitar), Freddie Perren (keyboard), and Fonce Mizell (keyboards), as well as Motown founder Berry Gordy, were of primary significance not only on the ABC album, but within the entire Jackson 5 oeuvre.ġ0.
There are also a few contemporary nuggets from beyond the boundaries of Detroit, as "La-La (Means I Love You)" is derived from the up-and-coming Philly soul movement and "I'll Bet You" was gleaned from George Clinton's incipient incarnation of Funkadelic. As was customary, Motown's cache of house composers provide the lion's share of the songs, most notably the Holland-Dozier-Holland-penned "(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need", brought to prominence by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and Stevie Wonder's "Never Had a Dream Come True," which Wonder himself had recently included on his own Signed, Sealed & Delivered (1970). Granted, the familiar tunes are undeniably the focal point, making it easy to overlook some of the other stellar selections.
Not too shabby for a group whose oldest member was barely in his teens. The Jacksons' collective (and respective) talents, coupled with exemplary material and the finest behind the scenes crew Motown had to offer, were directly responsible for the enormous success that placed the LP at the crest of the R&B chart and into the Top Five of the pop survey, while the title track and the double-sided hit single "The Love You Save" b/w "I Found That Girl" all went directly to the number one position across the board. Not even six months after the Jackson 5, Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael, and Tito, issued their debut long-player, Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 (1969), the vocal quintet returned with ABC (1970), arguably the brothers' most solid effort of the early '70s.
(Come 'round Here) I'm The One You Need (2:40)ġ2. Ross did, however, introduce the group to the public both in concert and on television.Īll songs produced by Bobby Taylor except for "Nobody" and "I Want You Back", produced by The Corporation™.ĥ. Ross' alleged discovering of the Jackson 5 was in fact part of Motown's marketing and promotions plan for the Jackson 5 Motown artists Bobby Taylor and Gladys Knight were the ones who had actually discovered the Jacksons. The album title suggested that Motown star Diana Ross had discovered the group, as do the Ross-penned liner notes on the back cover.
Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5's only single, "I Want You Back", became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 within weeks of the album's release. The Jackson 5's lead singer, a preteenage boy named Michael Jackson, and his older brothers Marlon, Jermaine, Tito, and Jackie, became pop successes within months of this album's release. Born To Love You (2:26)Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 was the debut albumįrom Gary, Indiana-based soul family band The Jackson 5, released on the Motown label in December 1969. Standing In The Shadows Of Love (4:05)ġ2.