When The Jackson 5's "ABC" hit the airwaves in 1970, it didn't just mark a breakthrough moment for the youth group — it was the birth of a Motown classic that would forever remain a cherished bop.
The Motown icon, however ... The music legend shepherded acts like The Jackson 5. After convincing famed founder Berry Gordy to sign the youngsters, de Passe was responsible for “buying them ...
In the heat of Motown’s pressure cooker, Lamont Dozier hurriedly but masterfully penned this mid-tempo classic under pressure to follow up the Supremes' first hit.
While one of Motown's most popular songs ... Meanwhile in the UK, it peaked a No.8. A 1988 remix of another Jackson 5 hit 'I Want You Back' featured samples of 'ABC' and also peaked at No.
T.G. Sheppard gave Motown's country label its first hit with ... “What’s Going On,” and the reunions of the Jackson 5, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and the Supremes.
He also grew up on the Temptations, Jackson 5 and other hit acts from before he was born. “Motown was part of the culture I was raised in,” he said. “I go home now and we’re all still ...
And with gold records by the Supremes, the Temptations and the Jackson 5, this former Motown recording studio became a hit-making machine from 1959 to 1972. The interior has been left much the ...