{"id":3350,"date":"2006-08-16T21:09:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T01:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2006-08-16T21:09:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-17T01:09:23","slug":"jackson-5-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/jackson-5-abc\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackson 5 &#8212; ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jackson5abc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-723\" title=\"Jackson 5 -- ABC\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jackson5abc.jpg\" alt=\"Jackson 5 -- ABC\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Jackson 5<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> ABC<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1970<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 9<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> Bought it used sometime in the 1990s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I grew up with the Jackson 5 on the radio, and of course TV too. I was just old enough to remember the hits from the album &#8220;ABC.&#8221; Overall, it&#8217;s a pretty energetic and joyous production, but listening to it is a little bittersweet. It&#8217;s hard to believe that Michael would end up so, in a word, strange.<\/p>\n<p>For me, this record is almost a 10, but some of the second side drags it down. That said, my favorite is on that side, &#8220;I&#8217;ll Bet Ya.&#8221; That one was originally by Funkadelic, on their first album I believe, and let me tell you it too is damn good, even though it&#8217;s sung an octave lower. Considering who wrote most of the songs on &#8220;ABC&#8221;, George Clinton, Stevie Wonder, Berry Gordy, Smokey Robinson, et al and it&#8217;s no wonder it&#8217;s so good.<\/p>\n<p>A whole lotta <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Jackson_5\">info about the Jackson 5<\/a> at Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Jackson 5 Title: ABC Year: 1970 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 9 Owner: Tracy Acquired: Bought it used sometime in the 1990s I grew up with the Jackson 5 on the radio, and of course TV too. I was just old enough to remember the hits from the album &#8220;ABC.&#8221; Overall, it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,452,453],"tags":[493,753,841,46,902,921,976,1033],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-493","tag-jackson-5","tag-motown","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-rb","tag-soul","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}