50sand60smusic: The Jackson 5 – I Want You Back Things I…
The Jackson 5 – I Want You Back
Things I remember when listening to this:
- My first bicycle. It was green, with a banana seat.
- Listening to my transistor radio (9V battery, single earplug, 93 KHJ).
- Being, like, 8, in a world of complex, fully realized people my own age, with an overlay of alien others who were old. Like, 12.
Fun fact: I didn’t actually research when “I Want You Back” was on the radio. I just went with my inner feeling and wrote “like, 8” because that’s what it felt like.
Then I checked:
“I Want You Back” is a 1969 song, and the debut major-label single for The Jackson 5 which became a number-one hit for the band and the Motown label in early 1970.
My eighth birthday was on March 22, 1970.
When you start digging around in 44-year-old memories, a lot of it is fuzzy. But not everything.
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