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Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5 would emulate great acts like GK and The Pips. Click here to see Tito Jackson and Gladys Knight in concert in 2009.
Life After Motown
“Midnight Train to Georgia” is a 1973 number-one hit single by Gladys Knight & the Pips, their second release after departing Motown Records for Buddah Records. Written by Jim Weatherly, and included on the Pips’ 1973 LP Imagination, “Midnight Train to Georgia” won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance By A Duo, Group Or Chorus and has become Knight’s signature song.
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The Jackson 5 in Africa, A never-before-seen documentary chronicling the J-5’s concert tour to Senegal . Equal parts propaganda film, time capsule, and jam session. Just seconds off the plane, the Jacksons are surrounded by Sabar dancers in regal attire. It continues on in that peculiar mysticism as the family tours the National Palace, a primary school, on Gorée Island, and the Medina, where candle lights in tin-roofed huts are likened to “twinkling stars” in the night sky.
The boys were captured at a rare point in their lives—not yet jaded by fame, still young enough to be awestruck by skyscrapers in the capital. Decked in royal beads, they move with a grace and carriage typically reserved for older men.
What was evident from their first sold out performance at Demba Diop stadium, was not only how wide the J-5’s international appeal was, but also how plugged in to contemporary African-American culture the Senegalese—and indeed all Africans—were. From their clothes to their style, hair, and swagger, the Africans could have been jamming in a stadium in Detroit.
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This review was taken from www.jamati.com. Someone who has actully seen this mysterious documentary.
Laura Adibe writes…
Jackson 5 In Africa almost did not the see the light of day, however, someone affiliated with the unfinished film, which was shot in Senegal, recently mentioned to ImageNation that the footage had been sitting around untouched for decades.
The film chronicles the Jackson brothers’ visit to Senegal in 1974, a time when Pan-Africanism was the Zeitgeist, or spirit of the time. In one poignant scene (one of many), after the Jackson brothers, along with their father, touch down in Dakar, Senegal, they are welcomed by Senegalese dancers. There is a clip of Randy Jackson, who is about 12 at the time, joining in with the dancers, moving his feet feverishly back and forth. Michael joins in for a moment at some point.
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The Silence Truth writes:
Michael Jackson visits 5-year old Leslie Robinette at a hospital, after she had undergone a bone-marrow transplant, leaving her with post-surgery depression; the patient has later on credited the famous visitor in person and publicly with enhancing her the will to live.
MJTHEBEST.com Investigates….
We found this picture…
An old photograph shows Michael Jackson visiting Leslie Robinette in the hospital in Seattle, Washington, in 1973. Robinette, now 42, of Greeneville, Tenn., was hospitalized as a child with aplastic anemia
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Lookin’ Through the Windows The Jackson 5
Label: Motown
Billboard Debut Date: June 3, 1972
Billboard Peak: #7
Billboard Weeks: 33
Buy iTUNES Click: 
Buy Amazon Click: Goin’ Back To Indiana / Lookin’ Through The Windows
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Born Sigmund Esco Jackson in Gary, Indiana on his mother’s 21st birthday, May 4, 1951, he is the second child of Joseph and Katherine and the oldest male child. He was given the name “Jackie” by relatives.
Aspiring to be a professional baseball player, Jackson forsook that dream when he and his four younger brothers formed the Jackson 5 in 1966.
Jackie and his two younger brothers Tito and Jermaine were part of an early incarnation of the group as The Jackson Brothers in 1964.
Jackie married Enid Spann (died 20 December 1997) in November 1974 at the age of 23. They divorced in 1987. He has two children – daughter Brandi (adopted), and Sigmund “Siggy”, who performs under the name DealZ.
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REMOVE THAT SCARF! YOUR HANDSOME!
Awww…
