Hello everybody
This is my way to celebrate all these years I've been his fan.
I imagine that you have lost of beautiful memories about Michael. If you have a nice memory this is the thread.
Can be any question.
The first song you listen to?
Hope you like it :yes:
Aw nice thread! I think of my childhood. Age 8 when the J5 first hit the scene in 1969-70 so that makes 40 years since I heard tell of the lil whippersnapper named Mikuh Jesson, years which have flown and seem just like yesterday.
Before the J5, yes there was great music which was a saving grace from the rather 'boring' quality that life seemed to have, but after the J5 came along, life lost that 'boring' quality. It suddenly seemed always filled with life, no matter whether a new record had come out or not at the given time. We were permanently inspired.
The only records I had of my own were the 5th Dimension, Chi Chi and Pepe (terrific local brother and sister act) and Diana Ross & The Supremes Greatest Hits. They were my hallway companions as I'd sit at the top of the staircase that led up to our walk-up in 1969 in addition to all my mom's albums, that is until
we got Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 at Hollywood Palace. That was borrowed from a cousin but the first album that was actually mine was the Third Album given me by that same cousin for Christmas.
I'd turn on the radio and wait to hear ABC and whenever it came on, I'd go in the house and dance in my stocking feet, and when it got to the part in the song where he says, "sit down Girl!!!" ...I'd let my feet slip from in front of me on the freshly waxed kitchen floor and wait to hear him say, "I thank I luuuuuuv ya!!!" and no sooner than I start to bask in the dumbstruck feeling of wonderment, he shouts, "NO!! Get up Girl!!!" ....I'd scramble real fast up on my feet as he'd say, "SHOW ME WHAT YOU CAN DO"!! and I'd shimmy around the apartment on "Shake it shake it baby, c'mon now shake it shake it baby ooo ooo shake it ...." :lol: was my lil personal ABC 'routine' :lol:
so yeh, that's what I was doing when that 12 year old and his brothers came bursting on the scene giving ALL of us kids (especially African Americans) something no one else ever had nor could ever have given us - it felt as though he and his brothers did it
"all for us" as it was truly a gift from above, for us to have that, especially in the ole' hood, its why they seem so familiar, its largely because we do 'know' them, we were them, unexpressed :lol:
everything else was the same and we had an interminable connection with their experience, which is what's kept so many, faithful and true in the end
so yeh... :better:
:yes: I know the feeling
Sorry
never give 'old' people a chance to tell a story.
Great memories are fun :flowers: Thanks for the refreshing lil ole' thread topic.