The Jackson 5

Released: August 28, 2012

Songwriter: Annette Tucker Kathy Wakefield

Producer: Hal Davis

Girl, wishing won’t get you to heaven
If you were meant to be heaven for me
Stop treating me like you do, ooh, angel
Ooh, never love lost may forgiven

Where you been sitting in Sunday school
Show us that old golden rule
You better be good, girl

If you want heaven you gotta make heaven all by yourself (reach out)
If you want heaven you gotta make heaven for somebody else (reach out)
Can’t go around thinking just of yourself love will pass you by if you do

Hey, girl!
You’ve causing your heart lots of trouble
Caught in your own little bubble of love
Wondering why you get blue, ooh baby

So, quiet and shy, yeah, that’s you girl
Sweet as a cake all the way through (reach out)
You can’t have your cake and love to, you know you’ve gotta reach out

If you want heaven you gotta make heaven all by yourself (reach out)
If you want heaven you gotta make heaven for somebody else (reach out)
Can’t go around thinking just of yourself love will pass you by if you do

Oh, reach out, reach out
Ooh, if you want heaven (oh, reach out)
Ooh, if you want heaven (oh, reach out)

If you want heaven you gotta make heaven all by yourself (reach out), oh yes you do now
If you want heaven you gotta make heaven for somebody else (reach out)
If you want heaven you gotta make it heaven all by yourself (reach out), oh, you yes you do now
If you want heaven, yeah, yeah, yeah (reach out)

The Jackson 5 were originally formed in 1963 under the name, The Jackson Brothers. The founding members were Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon. Michael would join the group as the lead singer a year later, a move which pushed Jermaine to sing the backing vocals and play the lead guitar.

After participating in a series of talent shows, they entered the professional music scene in 1967, signing with Steeltown Records and releasing ten singles. In 1969, they left Steeltown Records in order to sign with Motown.

In 1975, most of the Jacksons had opted out of recording any more music for Motown, expressing desires to have creative control over their songs, as well as royalties. Learning that they were earning only 2.8% of royalties from Motown, Joe Jackson, the father and manager of the group, began to negotiate a lucrative contract with Epic records, which offered a royalty rate of 20% per record. The deal was completed in June 1975. As Motown owned the name The Jackson 5, the group simply renamed themselves The Jacksons.

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