For the next few weeks, I'm gonna spotlight a different album by The Jackson 5/Jacksons and I want no bashing or negativity. I wanna focus on the music, not the controversy. Everyday, I'll post a new album. Now, the first album I'm gonna shine the light on is...................

LittleBLUECorvette said:

The album featured 10 covers including a cover of themselves in You've Changed.

Motown albums of the time generally had a lot of remakes, sometimes of their own in house material. The Supremes had an entire album of mostly Beatle songs.

MickyDolenz said:

The Supremes had an entire album of mostly Beatle songs.

Which album is it, Micky?

Javi said:

Which album is it, Micky?

They also had a Sam Cooke album.

Outtakes from the sessions include:

Oh, I’ve Been Bless’d
Listen, I’ll Tell You How
You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me
After You Leave Girl
Reach Out (I’ll Be There)
It’s Your Thing
Since I Lost My Baby

Reach Out actually appears on pressings of some of the early jackets in place of 'Born To Love You'. But not the track

MickyDolenz said:

Javi said:

Which album is it, Micky?

They also had a Sam Cooke album.

Thanks! I find the whole cover exchange between Motown and British Invasion bands fascinating. Smokey and The Miracles covered "Yesterday" and "Hey Jude" and The Beatles covered Smokey too, then The Kinks covered "Dancing In The Street", the Stones several from The Temptations and The Miracles. The Supremes covered "Yesterday" too in other album... That's fascinating, it's the open dialogue between the two best pop movements of the 60s! Maybe we should make a thread about it!

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The Stand! cover doesn't get enough love, that tune is downright funky! I remember where I was when I bought this album and that cut came on, I thought I would start dancing around the mall when that instrumental in the bridge started

Good luck! You have to discuss quickly, before some fool comes in again, thinks that a Jackson 5 thread should be discussed in a Michael Jackson thread and locks the damn thing up, successfully killing another great discussion.

Yeah. "Stand" is pretty cool. Even though I prefer the live version. The album version is way to slow.

PatrickS77 said:

Good luck! You have to discuss quickly, before some fool comes in again, thinks that a Jackson 5 thread should be discussed in a Michael Jackson thread and locks the damn thing up, successfully killing another great discussion.

Yeah. "Stand" is pretty cool. Even though I prefer the live version. The album version is way to slow.

I wanted to comment on the fast version from Goin Back to Indiana as well, thanks for mentioning! I think that's where I'd first heard it in fact, on Legend Continues when I first got the vhs. I wonder if vainandy likes it fast or slow :p

I think some of singles were released in mono, but I'm not sure why. Stereo had pretty much taken over by then.

I love the breakdown at 1:05!

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CynicKill said:

The "Diana Ross Special" must've confused me.

alphastreet said:

I think that's where I'd first heard it in fact, on Legend Continues when I first got the vhs.

Yes. Me too. I was a bit disappointed when I finally heard the studio version.

Javi said:

Thanks! I find the whole cover exchange between Motown and British Invasion bands fascinating. Smokey and The Miracles covered "Yesterday" and "Hey Jude" and The Beatles covered Smokey too, then The Kinks covered "Dancing In The Street", the Stones several from The Temptations and The Miracles. The Supremes covered "Yesterday" too in other album... That's fascinating, it's the open dialogue between the two best pop movements of the 60s! Maybe we should make a thread about it!

Some of the invasion acts were also into blues performers.

My favorite track from this album is "Nobody." Why that wasn't a single I have no idea!

thesoulbrother said:

My favorite track from this album is "Nobody." Why that wasn't a single I have no idea!

Yeah, it's downright funky!

PatrickS77 said:

alphastreet said:

I think that's where I'd first heard it in fact, on Legend Continues when I first got the vhs.

Yes. Me too. I was a bit disappointed when I finally heard the studio version.

Just listened to live Stand to compare, still like the album version better. It sounds more like Sly & The Family Stone's sound...all the Jacksons paid homage to them so well, Janet's And On and On is another example

MickyDolenz said:

Javi said:

Thanks! I find the whole cover exchange between Motown and British Invasion bands fascinating. Smokey and The Miracles covered "Yesterday" and "Hey Jude" and The Beatles covered Smokey too, then The Kinks covered "Dancing In The Street", the Stones several from The Temptations and The Miracles. The Supremes covered "Yesterday" too in other album... That's fascinating, it's the open dialogue between the two best pop movements of the 60s! Maybe we should make a thread about it!

Some of the invasion acts were also into blues performers.

That's true. I would say that, in the beginning of their careers, most of them —if not all— were into blues, to a bigger or lesser extent. As the decade went by, they distanced themselves from black sounds, but up until, let's say, 1965-66, they were highly influenced by blues music.

Javi said:

That's true. I would say that, in the beginning of their careers, most of them —if not all— were into blues, to a bigger or lesser extent. As the decade went by, they distanced themselves from black sounds, but up until, let's say, 1965-66, they were highly influenced by blues music.

B.B. King was mentioned in The Beatles' Dig It