Released September 5, 1974 Length 32:32 Release date 5 September 1974 Label Motown/Universal Records | Recorded 1973–1974 Artist The Jackson 5 Producer Hal Davis | |
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Dancing Machine
(1974) Moving Violation
(1975) Genres Soul music, Pop music, Funk Similar The Jackson 5 albums, Soul music albums | ||
The jackson 5 i am love the long version
Dancing Machine is the eleventh studio album released by Motown quintet The Jackson 5 in 1974. The album's title track was a #2 pop hit and a #1 R&B hit in the United States, and the album sold over 2.6 million copies worldwide briefly returning the group to their former prominence. The group released two additional singles from the album: the funky "Whatever You Got, I Want" and the group's last top twenty hit for Motown called "I Am Love".
Contents
- The jackson 5 i am love the long version
- Jackson 5 dancing machine
- Track listing
- Re release
- Songs
- References
Although the Jacksons were back on the charts, the brothers still complained of their artistic direction, most notably Michael. Nonetheless, the album became another disco concept album for the group, and showcased lead singers Michael and Jermaine Jackson. This album also marks the first time that all the brothers sang in their natural voices on the same song, which was entitled "It All Begins and Ends with Love." The order is Tito, Jackie, Michael, Marlon and Jermaine, who closes the song out. Around this time, the Jacksons were performing in Las Vegas with the rest of the family leaving this album with low promotion. According to an interview with Don Cornelius on R&B TV show Soul Train, Michael said that his favourite songs were "If I Don't Love You This Way" and "What You Don't Know".
The album was arranged by Arthur G. Wright, Jerry Marcellino, Mel Larson, John Bahler, James Anthony Carmichael and Sam Brown III.
Jackson 5 dancing machine
Track listing
Side One
- "I Am Love" (Don Fenceton, Jerry Marcellino, Mel Larson, Ronnie Rancifer) – 7:29
- "Whatever You Got, I Want" (Gene Marcellino, Jerry Marcellino, Mel Larson) – 2:58
- "She's a Rhythm Child" (Clarence Drayton, Hal Davis, Ruth Talmage) – 2:39
- "Dancing Machine" (Don Fletcher, Hal Davis, Weldon Dean Parks) – 2:43
Side Two
- "The Life Of The Party" (Clarence Drayton, Hal Davis, Tamy Smith) – 2:35
- "What You Don't Know" (Gene Marcellino, Jerry Marcellino, Mel Larson) – 4:25
- "If I Don't Love You This Way" (Leon Ware, Pam Sawyer) – 3:28
- "It All Begins and Ends with Love" (Don Fenceton, Jerry Marcellino, Mel Larson) – 3:07
- "The Mirrors of My Mind" (Charlotte O'Hare, Don Fletcher, Nita Garfield) – 3:08
Re-release
In 2001, Motown Records remastered all J5 albums in a "Two Classic Albums/One CD" series (much like they did in the late 1980s). This album was paired up with Moving Violation. The bonus tracks were the outtakes "Through Thick and Thin" and the Disc-o-Tech #3 Remix of "Forever Came Today".
Songs
1I Am Love7:29
2Whatever You Got I Want2:57
3She's a Rhythm Child2:39