TV PERFORMANCES
June 16, 1976 : The Jacksons tape performances on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show in Burbank. They perform “De De Doo” with Dinah Shore, the host of the show. She interviews the brothers, who talk about their recent trip to the Philippines. Michael sings “One Day In Your Life” and “We’re Almost There,” then he is interviewed alone. He talks about his songs and vacations.
CBS airs the first episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. The show based on their Las Vegas set features The Jacksons + The Jackson Sisters (Rebbie, LaToya & Janet). Special guest star : Sonny Bono. Songs performed :”Forever Came Today”, “Love Will Keep Us Together”, “More Than You Know”/”Am I Blue?”/”For Once in My Life”/ “Try a Little Tenderness”, “Steppin’ Out with My Baby”, “Dancing Machine”.
June 21, 1976 : The Jacksons are guest on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson taped in Burbank. The Jacksons are interviewed by Freddie Prinze, the host, and they sing a medley of “Without A Song/You’ve Got A Friend/Make It With You/Behind Closed Doors/You’ve Made Me So Very Happy/You Are The Sunshine Of My Life/You And Me Against The World.” Michael performs “Happy” in solo.
June 23, 1976 : CBS airs the 2nd episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. Special guest star -: Mackenzie Phillips. Songs performed : “(You Were Made) Especially For Me”,
“Do The Fonz”, “A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock and Roll”/”Deep Purple”Convoy”, “Junkfood Junkie”, “Ben”, “Goin’ Back to Indiana”.
June 30, 1976 : CBS airs the 3rd episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. Special guest star : Ed McMahon. Songs performed :”Rockin’ Robin”, “Flat Foot Floogie”, “World of Sunshine”, “Save The Bones for Henry Jones”, “The Love You Save”.
July 1976 : The Jacksons are guests on The Tonight Show where they give an interview and perform 2 songs.
July 7, 1976 : CBS airs the 4th episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. Special guest star : Joey Bishop. Songs performed :”ABC” “Fever”, “I Got You Babe”,”Down by the Old Mill Stream”, “Never Can Say Goodbye”.
October 10, 1976 : On the Sonny & Cher Show – Bozo Awards, The Jackssons participate in the Bozo Awards segment with Sonny & Cher and Bob Hope, and they perform “Enjoy Yourself” taped at CBS Television City in Los Angeles.
November 12, 1976 : The Jacksons perform “Enjoy Yourself” and “Dreamer” on Dinah TV show (taped in Burbank). Michael talks to Fred Astaire on the show.
December 31, 1976 : Spanish TV channel TVE airs The Jacksons performances on Nochevieja. The performances were taped earlier in Las Vegas. Valerio Lazarov, the producer of the show, had sent a team. The brothers performed “Good Times”, “Enjoy Yourself”, Dreamer, Keep On Dancing & “Think Happy” with an introduction and a “Happy Birthday” sung in Spanish, alongside the presenter Didi Sherman, Lazarov’s wife.
January 19, 1977 : CBS airs the 5th episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. Special guest star : Redd Foxx. Songs performed : “Enjoy Yourself”, “They Can’t Take That Away from Me”/”Puttin’ on the Ritz”, “Blues Away”, “Bei Mir Bist Du Schön (Means You’re Grand)”, “Keep on Dancing”.
January 26, 1977 : CBS airs the 6th episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. Special guest star : Carroll O’Connor. Songs performed : “Hum Along and Dance”,”Get Happy”/”I Got Rhythm”
“I Got You Babe”, “Coconut”,”I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart”/”Don’t Get Around Much Anymore”/”Caravan”/”Take the “A” Train”, “Show You the Way to Go”.
January 31, 1977 : The Jacksons perform “Good Times” at The American Music Awards held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica and Janet presents an award as Mae West.
February 2, 1977 : CBS airs the 7th episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. Special guest stars : Dom DeLuise/
George Miller/Muhammad Ali. Songs performed : “Moving Violation”,”On the Wall” “That’s the Way (I Like It)”, “Style of Life”, “Steppin’ Out”, “Hello, Dolly!”, “Life of the Party”.
February 8, 1977 : The Jacksons are guests on Mike Douglas show Mike Douglas Show (taped in Philadelphia) where they perform “Enjoy Yourself’, “Dreamer’ & “Show You The Way To Go”.
February 9, 1977 : CBS airs the 8th episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. Special guest star : Betty White. Songs performed : “Get It Together”, “On The Wall”, “Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy”, “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree”, “Dreamer”, “Opus No. 1”, “Just a Little Bit of You”.
February 16, 1977 : CBS airs the 9th episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. Special guest stars : Georgia Engel/David Letterman. Songs performed : “Sugar Daddy”, “On The Wall”,”Cisco Kid”/”I Shot the Sheriff”,”One”, “Ben”, “I Am Love”.
February 23, 1977 : CBS airs the 10th episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. Special guest stars :John Byner/Nicholas Brothers. Songs performed : “What You Don’t Know Won’t Hurt You”
“On the Wall”,”Midnight at the Oasis”,”Get Ready”,”Good Times” “I Can’t Quit Your Love”.
February 25, 1977 : The Jacksons tape a 30 minutes long performance on Súper Sábado Sensacional TV show They perform One Day In Your Life, Happy, I’ll Be There, Dancing Machine, Body Language (Do The Love Dance), Enjoy Yourself et Just A Little Bit Of You. (the last two songs are cut from the airing). The show airs on Venevision the day after.
March 2, 1977 : CBS airs the 11th episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. Special guest star : Lynda Carter. Songs performed “Think Happy”, “On The Wall”, “On the Good Ship Lollipop”, “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone”,”Thank God I’m a Country Boy”, “Living Together”, “I’ll Be There”.
March 9, 1977 : CBS airs the 12th episode of The Jacksons Variety Show. Special guest stars : Tim Conway/David Letterman. Songs performed : “Dancing Machine”, “On the Wall” “Behind Closed Doors”, “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby”, “I’m Going To Jackson”, “Flat Foot Floogie”,”World of Sunshine”,”Body Language.
April 1977 : In New York City, The Jacksons perform “Enjoy Yourself” on local NY kids TV show Wonderama and they are interviewed by TV host Bob McCallister.
May 19, 1977 : The Jacksons perform “Show You The Way To Go” on Top Of The Pops in London. The group poses for pictures at Hyde Park Corner in London.
May 21, 1977 : The Jacksons perform “Enjoy Yourself”, “Show You the Way to Go”, “Dreamer”, “Keep on Dancing” on Musikladen, Bremen, Germany.
Late May 1977 : The Jacksons perform “Think Happy” & “Show You The Way To Go” on TopPop taped at AVRO TV Studio, Hilversum, Netherlands (aired on July 19).
May 30, 1977 : The Jacksons tape a performance of “Keep On Dancing” on Numéro Un Joe Dassin taped at the Buttes-Chaumont Studios in Paris, France (aired on French TV on July 2, 1977).
PRESS (interviews/photoshoots)
June 24, 1976 : The Jacksons are on the cover of Jet Magazine.
December 1976 : The Jacksons are on the cover of Rock & Soul Magazine, Jet & Soul Magazine.
February 2, 1977 : Michael meets Andy Warhol for the first time at Regine’s night club on 502 Park Avenue in New York City. “Catherine [Catherine Guinness, Warhol’s assistant] and I went to Regine’s at 11:00 pm. to interview Michael Jackson of the Jackson Five. He’s very tall now but he has a really high voice. He had a big guy with him, maybe a bodyguard, and The Wiz’s girl [Stephanie Mills]. Susan Blond, publicist at Epic at the time, is also present at this event. This interview between Michael Jackson and Andy Warhol will appear in one of the issues of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine soon after (probably in the March 1977 issue).
March 1977 : Michael is on the cover of Rock & Soul Magazine.
May 21, 1977 : In Amsterdam, The Jacksons visit the studios of Claude Vanheye, a Dutch photographer who had made a name for himself in the world of celebrities, for a photo shoot.
May 24, 1977 : In London, The Jacksons make a photoshoot all around London with photographer Tom Sheehan.
TV/RADIO INTERVIEWS
AWARDS SHOWS/RED CARPETS/PRESS CONFERENCES
December 18, 1976 : While on a promo tour in San Francisco, The Jacksons go to local music store “Jax Records” where fans swarm the place and break the windows causing chaos and injuries.
January 31, 1977 : The Jacksons perform “Good Times” at The American Music Awards held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica and Janet presents an award as Mae West.
February 19, 1977 : The Jacksons present an award to Nathalie Cole at the 19th Grammy Awards at Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles. Michael poses for a picture with Aretha Franklin.Later that night, Michael attends an after party at On The Rox, sur Sunset Boulevard with Tatum O’Neal, Susan Blond and Andy Warhol.
March 10, 1977 : Michael and Janet attend the First Annual Rock and Roll Celebrity Sports Classic at the University of California in Irvine.
May 31, 1977 : Michael visits Studio 54 after the Beatlemania concert in New York City.
CONCERTS DATES
February 28, 1977 : The Jacksons give a concert at the Salón Naiguatá del Hotel Tamanaco in Caracas, Venezuela.
April 10, 1977 : The Jacksons perform a concert at Uniondale’s “Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum” during “The Jacksons’ Tour”. While no footage of the tour has ever surfaced, a press article published the day after mentionned that Stevie Wonder was on stage that night.
May 16, 1977 : The Jacksons perform at the Queen Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland.
May 17, 1977 : The Jacksons perform “Forever Came Today”, “Show You The Way To Go” and a Motown medley medley at Kings’s Theatre in Glasgow as part of the Royal Command Performance celebrating the Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee celebrations. The groups meets Queen Elizabeth for the second time.
May 24, 1977 : The Jacksons perform a concert at the Hammersmith Odeon in London.
LIVE ALBUMS/TV BROADCASTS/COMMERCIAL RELEASE
To this day, no full concert from The Jacksons Tour 1977 has ever been officially released on video (VHS, DVD, Bluray or YouTube).
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