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#"Make Tonight All Mine" ([[Freddie Perren]], Christine Yarian) - 3:19 <small>(''G.I.T.: Get it Together'' sessions, June - July 1973)</small> |
#"Make Tonight All Mine" ([[Freddie Perren]], Christine Yarian) - 3:19 <small>(''G.I.T.: Get it Together'' sessions, June - July 1973)</small> |
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#"We're Gonna Change Our Style" (Clay Drayton, Judy Cheeks) - 2:46 <small>(''Moving Violation'' sessions, February 1975)</small> |
#"We're Gonna Change Our Style" (Clay Drayton, Judy Cheeks) - 2:46 <small>(''Moving Violation'' sessions, February 1975)</small> |
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==Review== |
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<center>by Lindsay Planer (All Music)</center> |
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Although technically credited to "The Jackson Five featuring Michael Jackson," Joyful Jukebox Music (1976) was actually issued after the quintet split from Motown, their home for five years and a total of 11 long-players. The majority of the contents had been cut several years earlier circa the sessions that yielded Skywriter (1973) and Get It Together (1973). As Tito, Jackie, Marlon, Randy and Michael had yet to surface with any new material from their freshly-inked deal with Epic Records, Motown was understandably eager to get their platters on the air and in the racks before the competition. One primary correlation connecting tracks on this collection to those aforementioned LPs and many of the band's earlier successes is the involvement of Freddie Perren (keyboard) and Fonce Mizell (keyboards). The pair were part of the Corporation, Motown's team of producers, musicians and composers whose elite membership also consisted of Bobby Taylor, Deke Richards (guitar) and the label's co-founder Berry Gordy. While certainly releasable, enthusiasts will be able to tell why the majority of the selections had originally been delegated to the cutting-room. That certainly shouldn't suggest that the entire affair is a washout as the lovely ballad "Through Thick and Thin," and the Perren co-penned up-tempo jiver "Make Tonight All Mine" are arguably better than anything that had turned up on either Skywriter or Get It Together. When dipping into the incalculably voluminous Motown back catalog, they only come up with an interesting, though ultimately dissatisfying, if not excessive overhaul of Marvin Gaye's "Pride and Joy." Worse still are the self-serving schmaltzy "We're Here to Entertain You" and the equally unnecessary closer "We're Gonna Change Our Style." Granted, compilers may have considered it as a fitting harbinger to the next stage in the Jacksons career, however modern ears will probably dismiss it as extraneous filler. |
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Joyful Jukebox Music is a 1976 album by The Jackson 5 released on the Motown label. It was released after The Jackson 5 broke their contract with Motown; Michael and his brothers had already released the album The Jacksons when Joyful Jukebox Music landed in the bins. Before this break, the Jackson 5 were working hard, dozens of songs per album; Motown gathered some that had been recorded around the years 1972-1975, for recording sessions and albums: Skywriter, Get It Together, Dancing Machine and Moving Violation. Those years were very prolific for the Jackson brothers, since in addition to the aforementioned two albums and tracks, Jermaine, Michael and Jackie each had a solo album at that time (respectively Come Into My Life, Music & Me, Jackie Jackson and Forever, Michael), Tito also recorded instrumental solos.
The albums Joyful Jukebox Music and Boogie were distributed for a very short period, and the album is one of the rarest albums of the Jackson 5, though not as scarce as Boogie. In 2004, it was available for a limited time from Hip-O Select, to complement Motown's 2001 "2 Albums on 1 CD" re-issue set of the Jackson 5's albums, on which some of these songs were issued as bonus tracks. Although only 5,000 copies were pressed, the album contains the previously unreleased full 15+ minute take of the song "Hum Along and Dance."[1] It is currently available for purchase on iTunes.[2]
Track listing
- "Joyful Jukebox Music" (Tom Bee, Michael Edward Campbell) - 3:15 (Dancing Machine sessions, March 1974)
- "Window Shopping" (Clay Drayton, Tamy Smith, Pam Sawyer) - 2:47 (Dancing Machine sessions, December 8, 1973)
- "You're My Best Friend, My Love" (Sam Brown III, Christine Yarian) - 3:24 (Forever Michael/ Moving Violation sessions, December 1974)
- "Love Is The Thing You Need" (Fonce Mizell, Larry Mizell) - 3:05 (Skywriter sessions, November 1972)
- "The Eternal Light" (Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino) - 3:13 (Dancing Machine sessions, May 1974)
- "Pride and Joy" (Norman Whitfield, Marvin Gaye, William Stevenson) - 3:13 (Marvin Gaye cover, G.I.T.: Get it Together sessions, May 1973)
- "Through Thick and Thin" (Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino) - 2:42 (Moving Violation sessions, November 1974)
- "We're Here To Entertain You" (Hal Davis, Nita Garfield, Charlotte O'Hara) - 3:02 (Dancing Machine sessions, March 1974)
- "Make Tonight All Mine" (Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian) - 3:19 (G.I.T.: Get it Together sessions, June - July 1973)
- "We're Gonna Change Our Style" (Clay Drayton, Judy Cheeks) - 2:46 (Moving Violation sessions, February 1975)
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