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Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5

Certain Songs #686: The Jackson 5 – “I Want You Back”

October 31, 2016 by Jim Connelly

jackson-five-i-want-you-back Album: Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5
Year: 1969

One of the greatest career openers ever starts with a piano glissando that explodes instantly into a guitar/bass/piano standoff that’s easily as dramatic as the climax of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

Then, as the percussion and the strings come in and establish what they’re going to do for the rest of the song, that voice — neither young nor old, neither male or female, but utterly bursting with enthusiasm and soul — kicks in, and a star is born.

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