| "The Love You Save" | ||||
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| Single by the Jackson 5 | ||||
| from the album ABC | ||||
| B-side | "I Found That Girl" | |||
| Released | May 13, 1970 (U.S.) | |||
| Recorded | March 1970 | |||
| Studio | Hitsville West, (Los Angeles) | |||
| Length | 3:00 | |||
| Label | Motown M 1166 | |||
| Songwriter(s) | The Corporation (Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, and Deke Richards) [1] | |||
| Producer(s) | The Corporation | |||
| The Jackson 5 singles chronology | ||||
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"The Love You Save" is a 1970 number-one hit single recorded by the Jackson 5 for Motown Records. It held the number-one spot on the soul singles chart for six weeks[2] and the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from June 27 to July 4, 1970 (in the UK Top 40 chart, it peaked at number 7 in August 1970). The song is the third of the four-in-a-row Jackson 5 number-ones released (the others were "I Want You Back", "ABC", and "I'll Be There"). Billboard ranked the record as the No. 16 song of 1970, one slot behind the Jackson 5's "ABC".[3]
Description
"The Love You Save" features side vocals of Jermaine Jackson singing alongside Michael in the final "Stop! The love you save may be your own", beside Marlon, Tito and Jackie. The song's lyrics feature Michael and Jermaine warning a "fast" girl to slow down and "stop!", because "the love you save may be your own!"
The opening exclamation, "Stop!", and the foot stomps that complement the rhythm during the latter part of the song are allusions to the 1965 number-one Motown single by the Supremes, "Stop! In the Name of Love".
Others claim that Bobby Taylor, who produced the Jackson 5's first album at Motown and was lead singer of Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, discovered the Jackson 5 and brought them to Berry Gordy's attention.[4] Taylor had shepherded them through their first couple of hits in L.A., but Gordy (according to Taylor) felt the material was too adult given the age of the performers, and like the remainder of the early Jackson 5 hits, "The Love You Save" was written and produced back in Detroit by the Corporation, a team comprising Motown chief Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, and Deke Richards, and recorded in Los Angeles, away from the old Motown studio at Hitsville USA in Detroit, Michigan.
"The Love You Save" was the second single from the second Jackson 5 album, ABC.
The song was remixed by DJ Cassidy for the 2009 release The Remix Suite.
Personnel
- Lead vocals by Michael Jackson and Jermaine Jackson
- Background vocals by Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Tito Jackson and Jackie Jackson
- Instrumentation by Los Angeles area session musicians[5]
- Freddie Perren – keyboards
- David T. Walker – guitar
- Louis Shelton – guitar
- Don Peake – guitar
- Wilton Felder – bass guitar
- Gene Pello – drums
Chart performance
See also
- "The Life You Save May Be Your Own"
References
- ^ ASCAP entry for song ASCAP, accessed 28 May 2011
- ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 286.
- ^ Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1970
- ^ Gest, David. "Michael Jackson: The Life Of An Icon". DavidGestOnline.
- ^ Lecocq, Richard; Allard, Francois (2018). Michael Jackson All The Songs. London: Cassell. ISBN 9781788400572.
- ^ australian-charts.com - Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)
- ^ JACKSON 5 | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company
- ^ Top 100 Hits of 1970/Top 100 Songs of 1970
- ^ Cash Box YE Pop Singles - 1970