RELEASE DATE : May 8, 1970
RECORDING SESSIONS : 1969–1970
LENGTH : 38:45
LABEL : Motown Records
PRODUCERS : The Corporation, Hal Davis, Bobby Taylor
TRACKLISTING :
The Love You Save
One More Chance
ABC
2-4-6-8
(Come ‘Round Here) I’m the One You Need
Don’t Know Why I Love You
Never Had a Dream Come True
True Love Can Be Beautiful
La-La (Means I Love You)
I’ll Bet You
I Found That Girl
The Young Folks
PEAK ON BILLBOARD 200 : 4
SINGLES
ABC (February 24, 1970/Peak on Hot 100 Billboard : 1)
“The Love You Save” (May 13, 1970/Peak on Hot 100 Billboard : 1)
COMPILATIONS/SPECIAL EDITIONS/SOUNDTRACKS
NONE
TV PERFORMANCES
January 31, 1970 : The Jackson 5 perform I Want You Back on the Andy Williams Show.
February 21, 1970 : The Jackson 5 perform I Want You Back, ABC and a medley of Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah/There Was A Time on American Bandstand hosted by Dick Clark.
June 10, 1970 : The Jackson 5 perform The Love You Save & ABC on the Groovy Show TV program in Los Angeles.
SHORT FILMS/COMMERCIALS/MOVIES
NONE
PRESS
June 1, 1970 : The Jackson 5 are on the cover of Soul Magazine.
PHOTOSHOOTS
NONE
TV/RADIO INTERVIEWS
NONE
PUBLIC APPEARANCES (EXCEPT CONCERTS)
PRIVATE/FAMILY EVENTS
CONCERTS
TOUR DATES 1970
April 1970 : The J5 rehearse for their first concert tour.
May 2 : The J5 kick off their first national tour at the Civic Auditorium in Philadelphia.
June 19 : The J5 give a concert at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.
June 20 : The J5 give a concert at the Forum in Inglewood before an audience of 18 000. At one point in the show, teenage girls invade the stage forcing the group to run for safety! Diana Ross & the Jackson family attend the show including Joe, Katherine and Michael’s grandparents.
Set list from June 20, 1970 (concert at the Forum, Inglewood)
“Introduction” – 0:41
“I Want You Back” (The Corporation) – 3:08
“Feelin’ Alright” (Dave Mason) – 4:51
“Who’s Lovin’ You” (William “Smokey” Robinson, Jr.) – 4:56
“Walk On” (Suzanne de Passe, Jackson 5) – 2:21
“Don’t Know Why I Love You” (Don Hunter, Stevie Wonder, Lula Hardaway, Paul Riser – 3:40
“Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah” (Ray Gilbert, Allie Wrubel) – 2:55
“ABC” (The Corporation) – 3:33
“Intro/It’s Your Thing” (Rudolph Isley, O’Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley) – 4:55
“I Found That Girl” (The Corporation) – 4:45
“There Was a Time” (James Brown) – 3:14
“Intro/Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin” (Sylvester Stewart) – 7:08
“The Love You Save” (The Corporation) – 3:32
“Mama’s Pearl” (Bonus Track) (The Corporation) – 3:10
LIVE ALBUMS/TV BROADCASTS/COMMERCIAL RELEASE
To this day, no full Jackson 5 concert from this era has ever been officially released on video (VHS, DVD, Bluray or YouTube).
Live at the Forum (The Jackson 5 album) : Released on June 21, 2010
Live at the Forum is a live album by American family musical group the Jackson 5. It was released on June 21, 2010. The live tracks contained in the album were mostly recorded on June 20, 1970 and August 26, 1972, during concerts at The Forum, in Inglewood, California. The 1970 concert was a record-breaking show of over 18,000 attending, with the group only having released two studio albums and a couple of singles out up to that point. This concert is an example of the group’s very early part of their career, on their first tour.
PREVIOUS ERA : “DIANA ROSS PRESENTS THE JACKSON 5” ERA (1969)
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