Track List Blood On The Dance Floor Morphine Superfly Sister Ghosts Is It Scary Scream Louder (Flyte Tyme Remix) Money (Fire Island Radio Edit) 2 Bad (Refugee Camp Remix) Stranger in Moscow (Tee’s In-House Club Mix) This Time Around (D.M. Radio Mix) Earth Song (Hani’s Club Experience) You Are Not Alone (Classic Club Mix) HIStory (Tony Moran’s HIStory Lesson)
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.
August 1969 : The group starts recording its first album with help from Motown producers Freddie Perren, Deke Richards & Fonce Mizell known as “The Corporation”. Suzanne De Passe, a young Motown executive becomes the group’s PR.
October 2, 1969 : Final mixing of the Jackson 5 first single at Motown “I Want You Back.
LENGTH : 37:51
LABEL: Motown Records
PRODUCERS : Bobby Taylor & The Corporation
TRACKLISTING :
Sida A : Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Nobody I Want You Back Can You Remember Standing in the Shadows of Love You’ve Changed
“I Want You Back” / “Who’s Lovin’ You” (October 7, 1969/Peak on Hot 100 Billboard : 1)
PERSONEL
David Blumberg, David Van DePitte, Paul Riser, The Corporation – arrangements Curtis McNair – artwork direction Ken Kim – artwork, design Jim Hendin – cover photography
COMPILATIONS/SPECIAL EDITIONS/SOUNDTRACKS
NONE
TV PERFORMANCES
August 22, 1969 : In their first nationally TV appearance, The Jackson 5 perform “It’s Your Thing” at the Miss Black America Pageant in Madison Square Garden in New York City. The television broadcast of “The Miss Black America Pageant” airs on Sunday, August 24, 1969.
October 18, 1969 : Diana Ross & The Supremes introduce the Jackson 5 on ABC’s Hollywood Palace Special where they perform Sing A Simple Song, Can You Remember, I want You Back and There Was A Time (with Diana Ross & Sammy Davis Jr).
December 14, 1969 : The Jackson 5 appear on The Ed Sullivan Show where they perform Stand, Who’s Loving You and I Want You Back. Diana Ross is in the audience and she takes credit for discovering them.
December 1969 : The Jackson 5 perform I Want You Back on the Joey Bishop Show.
SHORT FILMS/COMMERCIALS/MOVIES
NONE
PRESS
NONE
PHOTOSHOOTS
NONE
TV/RADIO INTERVIEWS
NONE
PUBLIC APPEARANCES (EXCEPT CONCERTS)
NONE
PRIVATE/FAMILY EVENTS
July 1969 : Motown headquarters move from Detroit to California and so do the J5! Joe, Tito, Jack Richardson, drummer Johnny Jackson & keyboards players Ronny Rancifer drive to Los Angeles while Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon & Michael fly out a few days later. The group is accommodated at the Motel Tropicana on Santa Monica Boulevard. Katherine stays in Gary with LaToya, Randy and Janet.
August 1969 : Motown pulls Joe and the boys out of the Tropicana motel and move them to the Hollywood Motel across the street from Hollywood High and closer to Motown headquarters. They have a meeting with Berry Gordy at Diana Ross’s home in Hollywood Hills.
October 1, 1969 : Michael moves to Diana Ross’s Hollywood Hills home and the two of them spend a great deal of time together.
November 1969 : Katherine, LaToya, Janet & Randy join Joe and the Jackson 5 in California and the whole family moves into a house rented by Motown on 1601 Queen Roads in Los Angeles. The family celebrates their new life by driving up to San Francisco for the weekend.
CONCERTS
January 1 + 2 : The Jackson 5 perform at the Apollo Theater in New York City (Sam & Dave headlining).
March 7 + 8 + 9 : The Jackson 5 perform at the High Chaparral Lounge in Chicago.
April 25 + 26 + 27 + 28 + 29 + 30 + May 1 : The Jackson 5 perform at the Met Theater in Chicago (Delfonics headlining).
May 4 : The Jackson 5 perform at the Guys and Gals Club in Chicago.
May 9 + 10 + 11 : The Jackson 5 perform at the High Chaparral Lounge in Chicago.
June 20 + 21 + 22 + 23 + 24 + 25 + 26 : The Jackson 5 perform at the Apollo Theater in New York City sharing a bill with Joe Simon and The Five Stairsteps.
July 11 + 12 : The Jackson 5 perform at the Guys and Gals Club in Chicago (shows at 11:30 pm and 2:00 am).
August 11 : Diana Ross invites 300 of her and Berry Gordy’s closest friends and business associates to meet the Jackson 5 at a private showcase at Daisy’s Disco 326 Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills. The Jackson 5 perform Motown hits such as “Who’s Loving You” and Disney classics like “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah”. Afterwards, a Motown press releasedis distributed to everyone in attendance. Michael and his brothers talk to local reporters and meet Bob Jones, a Motown PR who will prove significant in his solo career.
August 16 : The Jackson 5 perform at The Forum Los Angeles, CA as opening act for Diana Ross and the Supremes.
August 22 : In their first nationally TV appearance, The Jackson 5 perform “It’s Your Thing” at the Miss Black America Pageant in Madison Square Garden in New York City. The television broadcast of “The Miss Black America Pageant” airs on Sunday, August 24, 1969.
August 30 : The Jackson 5 perform Gilroy Stadium in Gary as part of Gary’s festival.
LIVE ALBUMS/TV BROADCASTS/COMMERCIAL RELEASE
None of the concerts from this era were filmed professionnely.
Song listed by MJ on a handwritten list during the Dangerous album sessions in 1989-1991. Lyrics were leaked on Shana Mangatal’s Instagram. It was written and produced by Bryan Loren with Michael Jackson providing background vocals on the chorus.
In 2024, a trove of unreleased Michael Jackson tapes were found in a storage unit deep in the San Fernando Valley. Musgrove’s journey to the tapes began when an associate contacted Greg Musgrove about a storage unit he’d recently bought in Van Nuys. The unit once belonged to Bryan Loren, a music producer and singer. On the tapes are 12 unreleased tracks, music Jackson worked on prior to the Dangerous album, around 1989 to 1991 including the song “Call It Off” (dated March 27, 1991, Loren with MJ on chorus). He and the attorney he brought on approached the Jackson Estate with their findings earlier this year. The estate, who Musgrove says did their own research into the tapes, declined to purchase the tapes for an unknown reason, but did provide him with an official letter stating that the estate does not claim ownership. They make it clear in the letter, however, that he and anyone else who might purchase these tapes down the line do not own the copyright on the recordings or the compositions, the estate does. Essentially, these tapes can never be released publicly. Remains unreleased.
STUDIO(S)
???
SONGWRITER(S)
Michael Jackson
PRODUCER(S)
Unknown
RELEASE DATE :
Unreleased
LABEL
Unreleased
LENGTH
???
ALTERNATE VERSIONS RECORDED BY MJ (covers and remixes by other artists are not included)
The song was recorded in 2001 for his tenth studio album, Invincible, which was released the same year. The song was written by Andre Harris and Marsha Ambrosius, who is one half of the London bred neo-soul act Floetry and was produced by Jackson and Harris.Jackson first met Ambrosius and Natalie Stewart, who is also a member of Floetry, through John McClain, who was DreamWorks’s senior urban executive and Jackson’s manager. Stewart said she was surprised that Jackson invited her and Ambrosius to a studio and asked for their input on the recording of the track. She recalled in an interview with LAUNCH magazine, “It was incredible because he asked, he continually asked, ‘Marsh, what’s the next harmony? Girls, does this sound right? What do you think? Is this what you were looking for? He was so open”.
The song was only released in the United States to radio airplay.
STUDIO(S)
Los Angeles (California)
SONGWRITER(S)
Andre Harris & Marsha Ambrosius
PRODUCER(S)
Michael Jackson & Andre Harris
RELEASE DATE :
October 30, 2001 (Invincible)
November 27, 2001 (single)
LABEL Sony Music
LENGTH
4:40
ALTERNATE VERSIONS RECORDED BY MJ (covers and remixes by other artists are not included)
Michael Jackson – Butterflies (Track Masters Remix) A1. “Butterflies” (Master Mix) (featuring Eve) – 3:47 A2. “Butterflies” (Michael a cappella) – 2:13 B1. “Butterflies” (Eve a cappella) (featuring Eve) – 3:47 B2. “Butterflies” (Master Mix Instrumental) – 3:47
MUSICIANS
Written and composed by Andre Harris and Marsha Ambrosius Produced by Michael Jackson and Andre Harris Lead vocal by Michael Jackson Background vocals by Michael Jackson and Marsha Ambrosius All musical instruments performed by Andre Harris Horns by Norman Jeff Bradshaw and Matt Cappy Recorded by Andre Harris and Bruce Swedien Assistant engineering by Vidal Davis Mixed by Bruce Swedien
Song written by Stevie Wonder in 1974 for The Jackson 5. The demo was recorded in 1974 during the “Dancing Machine” album sessions but remained unreleased until 2009.
STUDIO(S)
Motown Studios in California
SONGWRITER(S)
Stevie Wonder
PRODUCER(S)
Stevie Wonder
RELEASE DATE :
Posthumously on November 10, 2009 (I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters)
I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters is a Jackson 5 compilation released to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s debut on Motown Records; their debut single “I Want You Back” was issued October 7, 1969. The compilation, specifically designed to fit like a regular 1970s-era album, contains previously unreleased songs and alternate versions of some of the group’s hits.
LABEL
Motown
LENGTH
3:54
ALTERNATE VERSIONS RECORDED BY MJ (covers and remixes by other artists are not included)
Bumper Snippet is a very mysterious track, as no info is available about it and it is unknown what was the recording’s purpose. It’s said to be a skit or that it was supposed to evolve into a song, but this is unconfirmed.
In early 2000s, another version of the track was leaked, this time being titled “Bumper Snippet (Kid Part)”. It included an instrumental done by a kid beatboxing. It’s again unknown if it was going to evolve into another song. It was planned to be featured as the 1st track on Dangerous: Special Edition (Bonus Cuts) in 2001 until the project was cancelled.
The original recording leaked sometime in 2000s if not earlier, it was planned to be featured as the 12th track on Bad: Special Edition (Bonus Cuts) in 2001 until the project was cancelled. The “Kid Part” version leaked online along with 21 other Jackson demos on July 7, 2002.
STUDIO(S)
???
SONGWRITER(S)
Michael Jackson
PRODUCER(S)
Unknown
RELEASE DATE :
Unreleased
LABEL
Unreleased
LENGTH
???
ALTERNATE VERSIONS RECORDED BY MJ (covers and remixes by other artists are not included)
