An old phtograph shows Michael Jackson visiting Leslie Robinette in the hospital in Seattle, Washington, in 1973. Robinette was hospitalized as a child with plastic anemia.

Zu diesem Foto gibt es eine Geschichte, ich habe sie in die Erinnerungen gepostet.






Photos of the Jackson 5 at work in the Motown studio are hard to come by, which is surprising when you consider how many hours they spent there. Here are a couple of early photos that I just came across of Michael in the studio. I like them because they are candid shots, obviously snapped between takes. In the other one, you can see the dent the earphones made in Michael's afro.

Weldon Arthur McDougal III had what amounts to two or three great careers in the business. He did so much that it’s hard to nail down just one contribution. His greatest works came with Motown and Philadelphia International Records.

He passed away earlier this morning after a lengthy illness.

McDougal’s greatest contribution to the Soul world may have come with discovering a young group called the Jackson 5. Though history has muddied up the story a bit, some say it was Gladys Knight, some say it was McDougal and Bobby Taylor, here was McDougal’s side of the story from an interview:

I first met the Jackson 5 at the High Chaparral; it’s a night club in Chicago. They were there to do a talent show. At the High Chaparral, whoever won the talent show would get a paid salary to work on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I was there to see who would be the winner that week. And the winner of that week was the Jackson 5. I was introduced to Joe Jackson as the Motown promotions man and he told me “Hey man we wanna be on Motown” and I said, “Man, that ain’t what I do. I promote records.” I didn’t want to discourage him — I just didn’t want to misrepresent myself with people and tell them that I could get them on Motown.

At that time, I had never gotten anyone on Motown and I never thought of it. My job was to promote records and that was hard enough. When I saw Michael and the guys, I told them that Bobby Taylor, who was a guy I hung out with, got a production deal with Motown. He could produce anybody and they [Motown] would at least listen to the records he produced. Bobby Taylor and The Vancouvers were the headliner for that weekend at the High Chaparral. I told the guys “When you come in on Friday, you’ll see Bobby Taylor and he might be interested in you guys.” I saw Bobby the next day and told him how good I thought they were and they were interested in being on Motown. Bobby said he would see what he could do with them and the rest is history.

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Michael with Charlie Tuna, a Radio DJ, in 1973.



Michael studies with English teacher Mrs. Rose Fine. Photo by Ted Williams, taken as part of a spread for Ebony Magazine - "Family Life of the Jackson Five". Published December 1974.



With Suzanne de Passe, 1970