Soulsation!

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Soulsation!
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Compilation album by
The Jackson 5
ReleasedJune 20, 1995[1]
Recorded1969–75[2]
Length4:34:10
LabelMotown
ProducerThe Corporation
Bobby Taylor
Hal Davis
Norman Whitfield
The Jackson 5 chronology
The Jacksons: An American Dream
(1992) 		Soulsation!
(1995) 		Jackson 5: The Ultimate Collection
(1995)
Alternative cover
UK design
UK design
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Soulsation! is a 4-CD box set of music recorded by The Jackson 5 during their tenure at Motown Records from 1969 to 1975, when they left Motown for CBS Records. The box set was released in 1995 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Jackson 5 becoming the first group to have its first four singles go straight to #1 on the Billboard charts. Soulsation! included an introduction from the group's youngest sister Janet, liner notes from David Ritz and an essay from the brothers' first producer, Bobby Taylor. The fourth disc features 17 previously unreleased songs, most recorded from mid-1969 to early 1972. The set also includes solo numbers from brothers Michael, Jermaine, and Jackie.

Songs from all of The Jackson 5's studio albums from 1969 to 1975 are included here, as well as half of the 1976 album of unreleased material Joyful Jukebox Music (though nothing from the similar Boogie album of 1979 and no live recordings). ABC (1970) and Skywriter (1973) are the two most prominent albums, both having seven tracks on Soulsation!. The Jackson 5 albums with the fewest songs included are Jackson 5 Christmas Album (1970) and Maybe Tomorrow (1971), with two and three tracks respectively. The only solo Jackson albums not represented from that time period are Jermaine Jackson's Come into My Life (1973), and two from Michael Jackson - Music & Me (1973) and Farewell My Summer Love, which although released by Motown in 1984, was actually recorded in 1973.

Track listing[]

Soulsation! - Disc One[]
No. Title Length First appeared on
1. "I Want You Back" 3:03 Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 (1969)
2. "Who's Lovin' You" 4:06 Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5
3. "You've Changed" 3:16 Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5
4. "Stand!" 2:30 Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5
5. "Can You Remember" 3:10 Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5
6. "ABC" 2:56 ABC (1970)
7. "The Love You Save" 3:01 ABC
8. "I Found That Girl" 2:57 ABC
9. "La-La (Means I Love You)" 2:52 ABC
10. "I'll Bet You" 2:26 ABC
11. "(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need" 2:46 ABC
12. "The Young Folks" 2:50 ABC
13. "I'll Be There" 3:59 Third Album (1970)
14. "Goin' Back to Indiana" 3:32 Third Album
15. "Can I See You in the Morning" 3:09 Third Album
16. "Mama's Pearl" 3:09 Third Album
17. "Reach In" 3:28 Third Album
18. "Christmas Won't Be the Same This Year" 2:31 Jackson 5 Christmas Album (1970)
19. "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 2:24 Jackson 5 Christmas Album
20. "Never Can Say Goodbye" 2:57 Maybe Tomorrow (1971)
21. "Maybe Tomorrow" 4:41 Maybe Tomorrow
22. "She's Good" 2:59 Maybe Tomorrow

Soulsation! - Disc Two[]
No. Title Length First appeared on
1. "Got to Be There" (Michael Jackson) 3:23 Got to Be There (1972)
2. "People Make the World Go 'Round" (Michael Jackson) 3:15 Ben (1972)
3. "Teenage Symphony" 2:45 Looking Back to Yesterday (1986)
4. "Sugar Daddy" 2:33 Greatest Hits (1971)
5. "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" 2:30 Lookin' Through the Windows (1972)
6. "Lookin' Through the Windows" 3:46 Lookin' Through the Windows
7. "Doctor My Eyes" 3:12 Lookin' Through the Windows
8. "Little Bitty Pretty One" 2:48 Lookin' Through the Windows
9. "If I Have to Move a Mountain" 3:20 Lookin' Through the Windows
10. "Rockin' Robin" (Michael Jackson) 2:30 Got To Be There
11. "I Wanna Be Where You Are" (Michael Jackson) 3:00 Got To Be There
12. "Ben" (Michael Jackson) 2:42 Ben
13. "Skywriter" 3:08 Skywriter (1973)
14. "You Made Me What I Am" 2:50 Skywriter
15. "Hallelujah Day" 2:46 Skywriter
16. "Touch" 3:00 Skywriter
17. "Corner of the Sky" 3:33 Skywriter
18. "The Boogie Man" 2:56 Skywriter
19. "Get It Together" 2:48 G.I.T.: Get It Together (1973)
20. "Dancing Machine" (single version) 2:35 G.I.T.: Get It Together
21. "It's Too Late to Change the Time" 3:59 G.I.T.: Get It Together
22. "Whatever You Got, I Want" 2:58 Dancing Machine (1974)

Soulsation! - Disc Three[]
No. Title Length First appeared on
1. "The Life of the Party" 2:35 Dancing Machine (1974)
2. "I Am Love" 7:29 Dancing Machine
3. "If I Don't Love You This Way" 3:28 Dancing Machine
4. "Mama I Got a Brand New Thing (Don't Say No)" 7:11 G.I.T.: Get It Together (1973)
5. "Forever Came Today" 6:23 Moving Violation (1975)
6. "Body Language (Do the Love Dance)" 4:07 Moving Violation
7. "All I Do Is Think of You" 3:17 Moving Violation
8. "Moving Violation" (listed as "It's a Moving Violation") 3:37 Moving Violation
9. "(You Were Made) Especially for Me" 3:28 Moving Violation
10. "Honey Love" 4:40 Moving Violation
11. "That's How Love Goes" (Jermaine Jackson) 3:27 Jermaine (1972)
12. "Daddy's Home" (Jermaine Jackson) 3:03 Jermaine
13. "Just a Little Bit of You" (Michael Jackson) 3:14 Forever, Michael (1975)
14. "Love is the Thing You Need" 3:05 Joyful Jukebox Music (1976)
15. "The Eternal Light" 3:13 Joyful Jukebox Music
16. "Pride & Joy" 3:13 Joyful Jukebox Music
17. "You're My Best Friend, My Love" 3:24 Joyful Jukebox Music
18. "Joyful Jukebox Music" 3:15 Joyful Jukebox Music
19. "Love Don't Want to Leave" (Jackie Jackson) 3:10 Jackie Jackson (1973)

Soulsation! - Disc four (Rare & Unreleased)[]

  1. "Can't Get Ready for Losing You" (also recorded by The Miracles) - 3:48
  2. "You Ain't Giving Me What I Want (So I'm Taking It All Back)" - 4:23
  3. "Reach Out I'll Be There" (originally performed by The Four Tops) - 3:44
  4. "I'm Glad It Rained" - 4:02
  5. "A Fool for You" (originally performed by Ray Charles) - 4:33
  6. "It's Your Thing" (originally performed by The Isley Brothers) - 3:40
  7. "Everybody Is a Star" (originally performed by Sly and the Family Stone) - 3:01
  8. "I Need You" (Jermaine Jackson) - 3:25
  9. "Ooh, I'd Love to Be with You" (*) (from the album Skywriter) - 2:46
  10. "Just a Little Misunderstanding" (originally performed by The Contours) - 2:40
  11. "Jamie" - 3:30
  12. "Ask the Lonely" (originally performed by The Four Tops) - 3:24
  13. "We Can Have Fun" - 3:21
  14. "I Hear a Symphony" (originally performed by The Supremes) - 2:32
  15. "Let's Have a Party" - 3:10
  16. "Love Scenes" - 2:40
  17. "LuLu" - 2:39
  18. "Money Honey" (originally performed by The Drifters) - 2:55
  19. "Coming Home" - 3:04

Total length: 63:36

(*) Track 9 was originally supposed to be "You're the Only One" (as on the original back cover art), but was replaced at the last minute.

"Ooh, I'd Love to Be with You" originally appeared on Skywriter, and a longer, alternate version of "I Hear a Symphony" was included on the Michael Jackson compilation album Looking Back to Yesterday. All 17 other tracks from disc four are new releases, making this the single largest number of archival Jackson 5 studio recordings released between 1975 (when they left Motown Records), and the 2012 album Come and Get It: The Rare Pearls, which includes 29 previously unreleased Jackson 5 songs.

A remix of "It's Your Thing" called "The J5 In '95 Extended Remix" (5:57) was included on the one-disc condensed version of this box set called Jackson 5: The Ultimate Collection (1995).

A different remix of "It's Your Thing" called "The J5 in '95 House Remix" (4:47) appears only on the original 1995 UK version of The Ultimate Collection where it was titled The Very Best of Michael Jackson with the Jackson Five. When the UK album was reissued in 2001, this was the only track removed from the compilation.

References[]

  1. ^ William Ruhlmann. "Soulsation!: 25th Anniversary Collection". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  2. ^ Fred Thomas. "Soulsation!". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-11-10.


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