Boogie (album)

Boogie
Compilation album by The Jackson 5
Released January 16, 1979
Recorded May 1969 – April 1973
Genre Bubblegum pop and soul
Label Natural Resources and Motown
Producer Hal Davis and The Corporation
The Jackson 5 chronology

Destiny
(1978)		 Boogie
(1979)		 Triumph
(1980)

Boogie is a compilation album of both previously released and unreleased tracks by the American band The Jackson 5. It was released after the release of the Jacksons studio album Destiny in 1979. Boogie is considered the rarest of all Jackson 5 or Jacksons releases, as not many albums were pressed and fewer were sold at the time.

Background and composition

In 1979, the Jacksons moved up in the Top 10 with the album Destiny, released by Epic, and the hit "Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)". Michael Jackson began recording Off the Wall that year, and Motown wanted to cash in on the newfound success with Boogie on the Natural Resources label.

Five of the seven songs are unpublished productions by Hal Davis; some are in the line of "Pride and Joy" on "Joyful Jukebox Music" as "I Was Made To Love Her" and "Love's Gone Bad". The sweetness of "One Day I'll Marry You", following the sessions for "Never Can Say Goodbye", might have its place in albums like Maybe Tomorrow and Got to Be There. "Oh, I've Been Blessed" is produced by Bobby Taylor, recorded in the early beginnings of Motown group. "Penny Arcade" is the vein of Lookin' Through the Windows.

Boogie, along with Joyful Jukebox Music, were distributed for a very short period, and the album remains the rarest of the Jackson 5. 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

Side A
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Love's Gone Bad" (Originally by "Chris Clark", Skywriter Sessions, Recorded August 1972, mixed in Early 1973)Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Edward Holland, Jr. 3:19
2. "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Out Anymore" (Maybe Tomorrow sessions; recorded January 1971)Laura Burton and Pam Sawyer 3:00
3. "ABC" (Released on the ABC album, recorded December 1969)Berry Gordy, Jr., Alphonso Mizell, Freddie Perren and Deke Richards 2:58
4. "I Was Made to Love Her" (Originally by "Stevie Wonder" , ABC (album) sessions; recorded December 1969)Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy and Stevie Wonder 4:16
5. "One Day I'll Marry You" (Third Album sessions; recorded June 1970)Pam Sawyer and LaVerne Ware 2:58
Side B
No. TitleWriter(s) Length
6. "Never Can Say Goodbye" (Released on the Maybe Tomorrow album, Third Album Sessions Recorded June 1970)Clifton Davis 2:57
7. "Oh, I've Been Bless'd" (Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 Sessions, Recorded May 17 - 19, 1969)Lena Manns and Frank Wilson 2:50
8. "Penny Arcade" (Lookin' Through the Windows Sessions, Recorded October 1971)Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino and Deke Richards 2:41
9. "Just Because I Love You" (Maybe Tomorrow Sessions, Recorded February 1971)James W. Alexander and Willie Hutch 3:14
10. "Dancing Machine" (Released on the Get It Together album, Recorded April - May 1973)Hal Davis, Don Fletcher and Dean Parks 2:36

Personnel

Side A on "Love's Gone Bad"

on "I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore"

on "ABC"

on "I Was Made To Love Her"

on "One Day I'll Marry You"

Side B on "Never Can Say Goodbye"

on "Oh, I've Been Blessed"

on "Penny Arcade"

on "Just Because I Love You"

on "Dancing Machine"

References

  1. ↑ HIPO
  2. ↑ Joyful Jukebox Music / Boogie - iTunes

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