Track Listing
THE JACKSONS' STORY:
1. I Want You Back - (with The Jackson 5)
2. ABC - (with The Jackson 5)
3. Love You Save, The - (with The Jackson 5)
4. I'll Be There - (with The Jackson 5)
5. Mama's Pearl - (with The Jackson 5)
6. Never Can Say Goodbye - (with The Jackson 5)
7. Got to Be There - (with Michael Jackson)
8. Rockin' Robin - (with Michael Jackson)
9. Ben - (with Michael Jackson)
10. Dancing Machine - (with The Jackson 5)
11. Let's Get Serious - (with Jermaine Jackson)
12. Enjoy Yourself
13. Show You the Way to Go
14. Blame It on the Boogie
15. Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)
16. Lovely One
17. This Place Hotel
18. Can You Feel It
19. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough - (with Michael Jackson)
20. Billie Jean - (with Michael Jackson)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | MFSB | | Producer: | Hal Davis, Harry Weinger (Compilation), Jeff Moskow (Compilation), Mel Larson, Stevie Wonder, The Jacksons | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Jacksons: Jermaine Jackson (vocals, bass instrument); Marlon Jackson, Michael Jackson (vocals); Tito Jackson (guitar, background vocals); Jackie Jackson (background vocals).
Additional personnel: MFSB.
Liner Note Author: Amy Linden.
Recording information: 1969 - 1982.
One of the finest retrospectives of the Jackson brothers available, this 20-song collection impresses with its sheer comprehensive reach. The set spans from the group's earliest hits for Motown--including, of course, 1970's stupendously joyful "I Want You Back," the simple love lesson of "ABC," and the plaintive ballad "I'll Be There"--straight through to "Billie Jean" from Michael Jackson's 1982 opus, THRILLER. Between are Michael's earliest solo efforts, including the funky "Rockin' Robin," and "Ben" (the world's only love song to a rat), along with Jermaine's 1980 single "Let's Get Serious."
"Dancing Machine," the last track recorded under the name Jackson 5, shows the brothers edging toward a more streamlined, disco-oriented sound, a direction they continued when they began to record as the Jacksons. The group's latter incarnation is well represented on the Philly soul-influenced "Show You the Way to Go" (Philadelphia soulsters Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff wrote and produced the Jacksons's first albums for Epic), and on the Jacksons-written-and-produced singles "Blame It on the Boogie" and the eminently grooving "Shake Your Body." The set winds up at the dawn of Michael's spectacularly successful solo career, closing out the final chapter on this superb pop-soul ensemble.
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