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Joyful Jukebox Music | 
 enlarge | Artist: The Jackson 5
Label: Hip-O Select
Category: Music
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 186785
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602498630860
EAN: 0602498630860
ASIN: B000BQ4NI8
Publication Date: 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Joyful Jukebox Music - The Jackson 5, Bee, Tom | | • | Window Shopping - The Jackson 5, Drayton, Clay | | • | You're My Best Friend, My Love - The Jackson 5, Brown, Sam III | | • | Love Is the Thing You Need - The Jackson 5, Mizell, Fonce | | • | The Eternal Light - The Jackson 5, Larson, Mel | | • | Pride and Joy - The Jackson 5, Whitfield, Norman | | • | Through Thick and Thin - The Jackson 5, Larson, Mel | | • | We're Here to Entertain You - The Jackson 5, Davis, Hal | | • | Make Tonight All Mine - The Jackson 5, Perren, Freddie | | • | We're Gonna Change Our Style - The Jackson 5, Drayton, Clay | | • | Love's Gone Bad - The Jackson 5, Holland, Brian | | • | I Ain't Gonna Eat My Heart out Anymore - The Jackson 5, Sawyer, Pam | | • | ABC - The Jackson 5, Corporation [2] | | • | I Was Made to Love Her - The Jackson 5, Wonder, Stevie | | • | One Day I'll Marry You - The Jackson 5, | | • | Never Can Say Goodbye - The Jackson 5, Davis, Clifton | | • | Oh, I've Been Bless'd - The Jackson 5, Wilson, Frank | | • | Penny Arcade - The Jackson 5, Larson, Mel | | • | Just Because I Love You - The Jackson 5, Hutch, Willie | | • | Dancing Machine - The Jackson 5, Davis, Hal | | • | Hum Along and Dance - The Jackson 5, Whitfield, Norman |
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Product Description
With the release of this collection, the Jackson 5 album catalog on CD is finally complete. Two hard-to-find albums return, with a bonus track to boot!After the J5s explosive success at Motown, the group left to join Epic Records in 1975. When their new label debuted The Jacksons, Motown did what any smart label would: issue tracks from the vaults. Joyful Jukebox Music came out in 1976. The bulk of Joyfuls tracks were cut in 1972-1973, around the Skywriter and Get It Together sessions.In 1979, the Jacksons jumped back into the Top 10 with Destiny, just as Michael was beginning his ascent to solo super-stardom with Off TheWall. Motown again dipped into its archive and issued Boogie on its Natural Resources label. J5 fans were ecstatic - the seven unreleased tracks werent throwaways, but great finds. It was only out in the market for a very brief window before being withdrawn.This disc closes with a previously unheard, uncut version of Hum Along And Dance. Originally an 8:36 album track from Get It Together, Hum has been restored to its original near-15 minute length.Both Boogie and Joyful Jukebox Music have long been highly sought by collectors, and were elated to have them available for the first time on CD. No mere sweeping of the dusty corners of the vaults, this.
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No superlative good enough for this found in my thesaurus March 16, 2006
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
This selection does not have a song list, but in case it's any use to you in deciding the check out the Jackson 5 in general....
Below you will find a lengthy analysis of the opening song on this record "I want you back." If a single song can generate this kind of response, imagine the musical content of the entire 21 song record.
This song obliterates me. All the performances are incredible, including, to quote a friend, Michael's astounding, dumbfounding lead vocal.
The bass part sounds to me as if it came straight from the composer and arranger, but in any matter it's stuffed full with inventive ideas and super fonky! Given the calculated nature of this recording I would expect the arranger to have worked out the bass part note for note. The recording is a careful tapestry of many sounds that blend together to give the overall effect. The intro is a good example. The melody played by the bass is wonderful, but that melody is doubled by other instruments plus other things are woven around that melody, all indicating that the arranger wrote it all out note for note, the bass player serving to faithfully play the arrangement.
(Un)fortunately, any excellence in other portions of this song is obscured by Michael's unbelievable vocal. So much stuff, so much soul, so much range and flexibility. This vocal is way in the unbelievable range for any artist. But to come from a brand new 11 year old is, as my friend put it so well, "dumbfounding." (If this selection does not feature sound clips, look at other Jackson 5 records here on Amazon to hear the mentioned snippets.)
*He sounds a little hoarse and that increases the authority.
*The way he uses subtle, rhythmic vibrato on the word "me" in the phrase "won't you please let me back in your heart." (Hear this on the Amazon snippet.)
*The pause and surprise attack on the word "back" in the same phrase. (Hear this on the Amazon snippet.)
*The screaming with 100% authority.
*The drifting out of tune on the words "now, baby, yeah" in the phrase "Yes I do now, Oh oh baby, yeah yeah yeah yeah, Nah Nah no no." (Is there a technical term for this "drifting out of tune" vocal technique?) (Hear this on the Amazon snippet.)
*The authority and inventiveness and soul of the scatting on that same phrase and other scats in the song, including the various fun "Huh"s.
*The natural way he does the call and response sections with his brothers.
*The perfect timing all over the place, including jumping on some of the responses a little early.
*The exciting vocal build on the phrase "All I want, all I need, all I want, all I need!" with the fantastic atonal exclamation on the second "all I want."
And on and on. You could almost analyze every single note the guy sings. The fact that this guy could do this at 11 years old shows beyond any question that singing at this level requires talent given to you directly by God. You can't get it and you can't learn it. God either gave it to you or He didn't. My guess is that some genius worked out most of this stuff and recorded a track for Michael to sing along with during the session. I mean God given talent or not, Michael could not have come up with that stuff on his own, atonal, drifting out of tune, etc. But to even sing along and get these results....incredible. Plus, who was that singing genius that came up with all that stuff?
Other great parts of the song are the pervasive background vocals, the excellent call and response, the subtle, almost inaudible use of strings and background vocalizing, and the various guitar parts that weave an interesting tapestry.
One thing that I think is ground breaking but at the same time takes away from this arrangement is the calculated, restrained drum part. The drum part sounds completely canned, written out and played note for note. It's not exuberant; instead it's carefully restrained. To my ears it sounds too mellow for this joyous, raucous romp. But it's groundbreaking because this style of drumming became prevalent later and today in the 2000s you rarely hear any drum pyrotechnics in favor of a steady drum beat that does not break the flow of the song.
I wonder if all the vocals on this recording are Jacksons? I assume they are and that shows the talent of this family and the quality of this product.
Excellence and analysis of each individual part aside, the real value of this song, besides Michael's vocal which you simply can not retire to the background, is the overall sound. Each part is carefully calculated and blended to create a unique, exuberant, joyful, new, and instantly recognizable sound that's unlike anything that had been heard before. Though each part is worthy of study, perhaps the best way to listen to this song is with a 6 inch speaker through an AM radio in your car. And isn't that the way it was meant to be?
Larry Brown
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