Hip-o Select has begun quite the marketing push for their upcoming release of The Jackson 5’s Live at The Forum. They have set up an entire site devoted to it, featuring pictures, anecdotes and (best of all) streaming excerpts from the album (“Who’s Lovin’ You” is the first previewed track). The folks at the label have also made the mind-blowing decision to link to us on the site, so if you’re a J5 fan who clicked through to The Second Disc, a special welcome to you! A very interesting tidbit from…
Jackson 5 in Fine “Forum”
The Second Disc is pleased to pass along the long-awaited track list for Hip-o Select’s upcoming Live @ The Forum by The Jackson 5. This two-disc set, to be released June 22 – almost a year to the day since Michael Jackson passed away – collects two previously unreleased shows recorded at the legendary Los Angeles venue: one taken from a week before the J5 scored their third consecutive No. 1 with their third single (“The Love You Save”), and another just days before Michael turned 14. The Second Disc can attest, from our…
J is Indeed for Jackson 5
Awhile back I’d posted on the existence of a “new” Jackson 5 title, J is for Jackson 5. My guess was that, like the similarly titled B is for Bob set done for Bob Marley, the CD would be a kid-friendly compilation of J5 tunes (not that they really recorded that many kid-unfriendly tunes). Thanks to an Amazon listing, my beliefs have been proven correct. The tracklist offers nothing new for J5 acolytes, unless you don’t have any of the officially-released, now out-of-print Motown karaoke CDs. Some of the instrumental backing tracks…
J is for What Now?
Among the many releases on MusicTAP‘s calendar today is a new Motown title for The Jackson 5, rather simply titled J is for Jackson 5. What could this possibly entail? My educated guess comes from elsewhere in the Universal Music Group back catalogue. Last summer, UMe released B is for Bob, a kid-friendly compilation of newly-remixed Bob Marley songs supervised by Ziggy Marley. (Fear not, purists: four of the tracks were presented in their original mixes.) J is for J5 might go over easier since the group in question already has a mass…
At a Glance: Motown Never Can Say Goodbye to The Jackson 5
In posts marked “At a Glance,” I’m going to try to assess any particular movement among a particular artist’s back catalogue. To start, here’s a look at one of the most recently popular catalogue artists – Michael Jackson – as seen through his early work for Motown. It is now nearly seven months since Michael Jackson died. His passing shocked the world enough to pay attention to his prodigious discography – the compilations Number Ones and The Essential Michael Jackson, both released by Epic, were hard to find in any record store that…
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