He made the Show and his talent was obviously - He was always the Sensation on Stage - so beautiful, I can watch it on and on. Embedded in his familiy - so sad he has gone to soon.
Michael was THE SHOW, born a true artist . With 10 years old and we can see clearly the same steps that he always did as an adult. Awesome. Irreplaceable!
I am so grateful for this posting! I actually saw this on television. I remember being a 7 year old Black kid who was watching a 10 year old performance master who looked like me! In 1969, you didn't see that. It was a life changing moment for me, and soon to be world changing phenomenon!
This was before they blew up and one of their first big gigs. The crowd was unaware of a legend that was before them. Michael rocked the crowd like someone who was here before in another lifetime. The way he performed was just amazing. He performed as if the stage was his. You can't find grown performers who don't show nervousness. You never see it in Michael.
BLACK POWER!!!!!!! BLACK POWER!!!!!! JAMES BROWN TALENT! YEAH BABY!:)))
SAY IT LOUD!!!!! I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD!!!!! DIANA ROSS; MISS BLACK AMERICA GLORIA O. SMITH; NEW YORK1969; JANELLE COMMISSIONG MISS UNIVERSE, TERRY WASHINGTON,TUPAC SHAKUR; I'M TRUELY PROUD TO BE BLACK; SING BABY! GO HEAD LIL MICHAEL! BLACK POWER IN YOUR BLOOD! MAKE YOU WANT TO SCREAM! OOOOH!!!
@balotelli456 it actually was August of 1969 and it was on television. This was the very first time I laid eyes on them and have been with them ever since.
Michael is greatly missed, however, he will live on forever in the hearts of his millions of fans thru~out the world! His music is timeless and will be around for many many years to come. God rest his soul <3
i LOVE IMSTATED, DRESSED SAGE IDLELIZED AND YES WANTED TO BE MIKE. UNTIL I WAS ABOUT 15 AND I GOT TO START KNOWING THAT I NEEDED GOD & SO DID MIKE. i PRAY GOD WILL HAVE MERCY ON HIS SOUL, BUT I OR ANYONE ELSE HAS NO SAY IN THE MATTER nO ONE GOES TO THE FATHER BUT THROUGH CHRIST I PRAY THAT SOMEHOW SOMEWAY SOMEONE LEAD HIM T THE LORD!!! PEAC E MY BROTHER
feel all you all feel but it's sad he never sang a song for Christ. He gave & gave but if you don't have Christ you are still lost. jUST THINK OF WHAT HE COULD HAVE DONE FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD?
@KWhamm what the hell? you need to go take some time from your miserable life & listen to more MJ music. He most definitely had Christ. you sound very dumb smfh.
I wish that they were all born like 15 years later so the technology and quality would be better... And that I would be alive when he was taking the world off of it's feet
@magzterz i agree, but the timing was perfect for them so i guess i can't complain =/ if it had been any sooner or later things would've been different.
He was born to be an entertainer...thee Greatest Entertainer...that's a Pure Soul & Genius natural unlimited talent. A truly gift from God to the world! Long live the King♥
WOW...OMG ONLY MJ, KING OF ENTERTAINMENT!!! He could beat any adult to this performance!...if the crowd only knows..the boy who turned KING in the future.
Amazing!!! He was workin the crowd even at that tender age. He was put on this planet to do this he would not have been happy if he had not been able to do this. He has such talent it is unbelievable. There will never be anyone even close to his talent ever. I love you Michael please come back to us the world is a much darker place without your sweet spirit to light the way.
Let me preach for a minute... taking nothing away from the talent of them men I'm about to mention.. but truth is truth.
Take Usher... Bobby Brown.. Ralph Tresvant... Chris Brown...Justin Timberlake... and multiply them by 1000.. and you wont have HALF of what the Jackson 5 were. Never before.. and never again will we see a group like this. Self contained... polished... and the standard for what came after them....
Can you believe it? a VETERAN by this age showing. He was definitely workin that camel walk!! And one can sure say that musically mike always knew what the hell he was doin!
The heir apparnt to James Brown. Ttio and Jermaine doing their best Bootsy Collins and Jimmy Nylon. An absolut GEM!!!!! Many thanks for this excellent post.
so beyond brilliant. even during the instrumental his body and movements embodied the song, you just can't look anywhere else. ain't gonna live to see the next time we get a next michael...sigh. try understand, not rush to judge/bash/persecute the different. vitiligo, allegations...the lost ppl who only hate in their hearts killed him and still keep on distorting the truth, slandering everything of his name & brainwash the masses...
Mike never ceases to amaze me. Such a genius! He is so frickin talented. I'm just in AWE!!! Like, I swear, his command of that stage in UNBELIEVABLE for someone his age. I've never seen a kid with that much charisma and power.
A true prodigy. Men twice his age wishes they perform as well as him. Haha!
It's really your thing to sing such beautiful songs as no one other can do - and that in the age of 10 - you were a superstar from the beginning - great, simply great!
.. and the bad, who molested you, they are really nothing, maybe they will get a good treatment by the death-doctor for their sickness.
my world michael was not ramping!!!! his voice, moves,dance,aura touches every inch of my SOUL! i can not imagine how the people then must of felt... you are a billion times more then a genius... wish u never slipped away alone it hurts.
@carmelb76 ..I am one of the people who experienced Michael (Michael and I are 2 years apart) as a youngster singing tunes like it's your thing...The experience is difficult to put into words...all I can tell you is...I fell in love from the very first note and time they debuted on T.V. in 1969..We literally grew up together...their record sales went off the charts and my ambition was to become a Jackson! ;))
OMG!!! mike in only 10 years old!! and has so much presence!!! he's 10!! and he can make that a whole adult and dull audience begin to sing with him!! he was born to be a star!!! i love you mike!!!
leave it to the amazing michael jackson to get the WORLDS DULLEST crowd to clap and sing WOW amazing boy and man his voice is AMAZING!!! here! love u mike rip
This is absoloutly incredible, the singing, the dancing, the entertaining, all that from a little 10 year old boy. I don't know what is wrong with that audience I would have been screaming.
@Lannielst I feel you on the audience not being very lively! But you gotta remember that was their first time seeing little Michael! I just think they were stuck in their seats and speechless! They couldn't believe what they were seeing. Mike had to do a soul clap to make them snap out of it! LOL! At least I hope that's why they weren't jumping and screaming!
That little child with that big voice. I know Mike had a lot of adults shaking their heads at Motown. If I was famous entertainer at motown and J5 had made one of my songs over and Mike snapped like how he did Whos Loving You, I would have been walking past Mike sticking my feet out tryin to trip his lil ass :) It's all love MJ miss you a bunch. But you aint about to make my song over and do it better than me LOL!
No wonder people caleed him a 40 year old midget. It's like he'd been performing for decades and yet he's probably still 10 there! On most of the Jackson5 songs it does sound like a child is singing but the incredible thing is he's got the vocal control of decades work. It's like he was born an entertainer with all the tools inbuilt already
the crowd suck..dude...but mj was killling..idk if they realized they were looking at greatness..because i don't know kids to day that can dance and just basically entertain like he did during this peformance..to be is to misunderstood...
this is like some very experienced entertainer caught in a little boy's body...his talent gets me everytime,he is incredible ! and what presence on stage...amazing. may he rest in peace.
Who wouuld have belieived that this young musical genuis would grow up to be the king of music by the tender age of 30 RIP MJ you always will be loved
@BACforMJ You said it so beautifully, that's everything I wanted to say.
Michael Jackson was a beautiful gift from GOD that inspired so many people, me especially. I thank GOD for 2 artists that really touches me with their music and really has GOD's hand on them, MJ is one of the 2. I see him and it's like GOD is speaking to me through Michael. MJ represented everything that music, beauty, and love should be. I will L.O.V.E. Michael Jackson for the rest of my life!! Praise the LORD!!!
Michael is the greatest, what kid at 9 or 10 can not only sing but dance like Michael, that's what set him apart from other child performers, he combines the 2 better than anyone,he could sang and dance is ass off
I dont even think they even signed with Motown yet. The video quality is poor but this may be the ONLY version of this performance. The group is still very RAW but you can see the talent. Apparently Motown saw it and cultivated it and the rest was HISTORY!!! R.I.P. MIKE 1958--2009
you think you missed out? i was born in 96. i missed out! my generation's music and today's entertainers suck. i wish that i was born in the seventies.
he's not gone to soon he had a great career and life he got totravel and see the world he had every thing he ever wanted god was just calling for him to come home and thats how i like to think of it.and by me only being 20 50years is a long life
Look at him falling in line with his brothers' steps at 2:39!
I keep coming back to this video because I feel both awe and a little discomfort. My jaw drops everytime I watch it but at the same time, ali0015 said: "did he know what he was singin?"
This is the discomfort part. Judging from his moves and the audiences reaction to the pelvic thrusts, it seems so to me. And assuming he did know, I think no 10 year old is supposed to be that sexually aware...
if you read the moonwalk book he wrote him self he said when he was around this age he did not know what he was singing about he just sung what he was told
I haven't read Moonwalk. I saw an interview with 11-12 year old Michael however and he was very convinced "he wouldn't sing what he didn't mean". Oxymoron yes, I'm sure this was what he was told to say but when I consider his extraordinary ability to interprete a song his own way from very very early ages, I have a hard time understanding how one "interpretes" and channels the right emotions when he does not understand the meaning of it.
@barisms and they say there's nothing sexual about michael as a person..but then as an artist he can always do what he wants to portray on stage whether its trying to be bad, sexy, cool, smooth, kind, innocent..he can portray anything and anyone..as they said michael can be anything he wants to be, because he does anything on a higher level..it was said that he can mimic anyone's moves and vocal style even..with michael there are no limitations..that is why he's colorless
I was as surprised as the audience when he did his little pelvic thrust. XD I didn't know he was doing that even when he was young... Oh, you're so cute, Mike.
I think about him at age 5 with 200 soul classics mastered - listening to the radio and watching TV in that tiny house. C'mon now!
parisinfrance13 3 weeks ago
Only King MJ can make a bad quality video Awesom.
rip MJ...still miss you
NuMii4lyfe 3 months ago
He made the Show and his talent was obviously - He was always the Sensation on Stage - so beautiful, I can watch it on and on. Embedded in his familiy - so sad he has gone to soon.
darkchildilikeit59 4 months ago
Michael was THE SHOW, born a true artist . With 10 years old and we can see clearly the same steps that he always did as an adult. Awesome. Irreplaceable!
1959soalma 5 months ago
This is why no one can replace him, no one has the same stage presence he had with the voice to match.
ProudtobeaCanuck 5 months ago
It was His thing, no doubt. I Love it.
Even though the quality is a bad one, what does it matter, He was a Genius!
darkchildilikeit59 7 months ago
Lemme hear you say!!!!
Phenomenon58 7 months ago
I am so grateful for this posting! I actually saw this on television. I remember being a 7 year old Black kid who was watching a 10 year old performance master who looked like me! In 1969, you didn't see that. It was a life changing moment for me, and soon to be world changing phenomenon!
unclekipper 7 months ago 5
wow little Mike what a showmanship! he OWNS it
AbabyThatWasntAbortd 8 months ago
Little Michael was a rare Gem!! Thanks for sharing this footage.
ChloeWildeMusic 9 months ago 2
This was before they blew up and one of their first big gigs. The crowd was unaware of a legend that was before them. Michael rocked the crowd like someone who was here before in another lifetime. The way he performed was just amazing. He performed as if the stage was his. You can't find grown performers who don't show nervousness. You never see it in Michael.
nomibe2911 9 months ago 2
BLACK POWER!!!!!!! BLACK POWER!!!!!! JAMES BROWN TALENT! YEAH BABY!:)))
SAY IT LOUD!!!!! I'M BLACK AND I'M PROUD!!!!! DIANA ROSS; MISS BLACK AMERICA GLORIA O. SMITH; NEW YORK1969; JANELLE COMMISSIONG MISS UNIVERSE, TERRY WASHINGTON,TUPAC SHAKUR; I'M TRUELY PROUD TO BE BLACK; SING BABY! GO HEAD LIL MICHAEL! BLACK POWER IN YOUR BLOOD! MAKE YOU WANT TO SCREAM! OOOOH!!!
christsake100 9 months ago 2
What a poor quality vid. Did you drop the tape in the bath or something? Great song and great version.
kmp3000 1 year ago
@kmp3000 its 1968, and it was a live show that was not on tv, what do you expect, VEVO ?
balotelli456 4 months ago
@balotelli456 it actually was August of 1969 and it was on television. This was the very first time I laid eyes on them and have been with them ever since.
MrsGarrett81603 3 weeks ago
Incredible, the Talent ran out of His ears - everybody can See it
darkchildilikeit59 1 year ago 3
Michael we will miss you always,the magic has gone xxxxxx
hitothecamera 1 year ago 2
Prince Of Motown - King Of Pop
Thank you Michael for all the wonderful memories I'll cherish them always <3
jasmin11263 1 year ago
Michael is greatly missed, however, he will live on forever in the hearts of his millions of fans thru~out the world! His music is timeless and will be around for many many years to come. God rest his soul <3
jitterbug121 1 year ago
what r u talkin about? Michael sang for the world, the children, the people, the poor....
if that aint for God, I don't know hat is. Please..
cherrymusique 1 year ago
WOW!!! And @ 2:21 He had that move back then too???
Michael...Mannn... God bless you!
earthlyme 1 year ago
history at the beginning....the one and only MJJ
InaD1985 1 year ago
good on Michael, not giving up on a tough crowd
freddogtgj 1 year ago
i LOVE IMSTATED, DRESSED SAGE IDLELIZED AND YES WANTED TO BE MIKE. UNTIL I WAS ABOUT 15 AND I GOT TO START KNOWING THAT I NEEDED GOD & SO DID MIKE. i PRAY GOD WILL HAVE MERCY ON HIS SOUL, BUT I OR ANYONE ELSE HAS NO SAY IN THE MATTER nO ONE GOES TO THE FATHER BUT THROUGH CHRIST I PRAY THAT SOMEHOW SOMEWAY SOMEONE LEAD HIM T THE LORD!!! PEAC E MY BROTHER
KWhamm 1 year ago
feel all you all feel but it's sad he never sang a song for Christ. He gave & gave but if you don't have Christ you are still lost. jUST THINK OF WHAT HE COULD HAVE DONE FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD?
KWhamm 1 year ago
@KWhamm correction.. there are songs for his lord.. will you be there, in the new album, another day
bluedonkeycat 1 year ago
@KWhamm what the hell? you need to go take some time from your miserable life & listen to more MJ music. He most definitely had Christ. you sound very dumb smfh.
Cutesweetyuna 1 year ago
@Cutesweetyuna Micheal Had Christ as much as you do.
KWhamm 1 year ago
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Cutesweetyuna 1 year ago
@KWhamm I'm very sure you're right. thanks for proving my point, idiot, because I most definitely have Christ also :)
Cutesweetyuna 1 year ago
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KWhamm 1 year ago
first live performance???? (in tv)
alljacksonfamily 1 year ago
I wish that they were all born like 15 years later so the technology and quality would be better... And that I would be alive when he was taking the world off of it's feet
magzterz 1 year ago
@magzterz i agree, but the timing was perfect for them so i guess i can't complain =/ if it had been any sooner or later things would've been different.
Cutesweetyuna 1 year ago
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trn17 1 year ago
3 people don't know how to get their groove on...
ilovemusicalot07 1 year ago
@ilovemusicalot07 They also know how to whip their hair back and forth more than getting their groove on.
timmy841212 1 year ago
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jazzyetta 1 year ago
He was born to be an entertainer...thee Greatest Entertainer...that's a Pure Soul & Genius natural unlimited talent. A truly gift from God to the world! Long live the King♥
aside77 1 year ago
@aside77 all his brothers vwere born with pure soul, all black people back then were
balotelli456 4 months ago
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aside77 1 year ago
WOW...OMG ONLY MJ, KING OF ENTERTAINMENT!!! He could beat any adult to this performance!...if the crowd only knows..the boy who turned KING in the future.
aside77 1 year ago
Amazing!!! He was workin the crowd even at that tender age. He was put on this planet to do this he would not have been happy if he had not been able to do this. He has such talent it is unbelievable. There will never be anyone even close to his talent ever. I love you Michael please come back to us the world is a much darker place without your sweet spirit to light the way.
xenaslave69 1 year ago
Let me preach for a minute... taking nothing away from the talent of them men I'm about to mention.. but truth is truth.
Take Usher... Bobby Brown.. Ralph Tresvant... Chris Brown...Justin Timberlake... and multiply them by 1000.. and you wont have HALF of what the Jackson 5 were. Never before.. and never again will we see a group like this. Self contained... polished... and the standard for what came after them....
megavega4 1 year ago 3
looked like he was crip-walking at 1:18
Argee11 1 year ago
@Argee11 he was
mommy632 1 year ago
What's funny is that none of those people in the audience knew that they were watching a future legend...
LINY65 1 year ago
Why isn't this in HD or color?
Hayeshacker1 1 year ago
@Hayeshacker1 idk !! maybe it is to old ?? hm idk
SuperStigmata 1 year ago
Can you believe it? a VETERAN by this age showing. He was definitely workin that camel walk!! And one can sure say that musically mike always knew what the hell he was doin!
DMob888333 1 year ago
WOW, WOW, WOW... this small boy is a GREAT PERFORMER!!!
LOVEMESOMEMICHAEL 1 year ago 8
wow where did you get this? This really has a James Brown feel to it......wonderful!
KSitz77 1 year ago
@Ketren2
man you hould have gtten all of his thumbs up for telling him how it is.
or at least for educating him on it.
ClockworkOrange 1 year ago
this is insane
ClockworkOrange 1 year ago
Wow, what a talent. He's beyond brilliant and look how he was. Michael is a genius. Incredible.
humanx3nature 1 year ago 2
The heir apparnt to James Brown. Ttio and Jermaine doing their best Bootsy Collins and Jimmy Nylon. An absolut GEM!!!!! Many thanks for this excellent post.
GospelMagic 1 year ago
i love watching this and think these peope had no friggin idea what he would become ans what he would mean to the world. INCREDIBLE.
AbabyThatWasntAbortd 1 year ago
so beyond brilliant. even during the instrumental his body and movements embodied the song, you just can't look anywhere else. ain't gonna live to see the next time we get a next michael...sigh. try understand, not rush to judge/bash/persecute the different. vitiligo, allegations...the lost ppl who only hate in their hearts killed him and still keep on distorting the truth, slandering everything of his name & brainwash the masses...
edmame 1 year ago
Mike never ceases to amaze me. Such a genius! He is so frickin talented. I'm just in AWE!!! Like, I swear, his command of that stage in UNBELIEVABLE for someone his age. I've never seen a kid with that much charisma and power.
A true prodigy. Men twice his age wishes they perform as well as him. Haha!
I love you Mike!
MyMelody5 1 year ago 2
Wasn't this their first televised performance?
LMAOisback25 1 year ago
look at him go!! I swear there will never be another!!
Chelly12778 1 year ago 2
Mike the baddest muthafucka EVER!
iam01 1 year ago 4
sang that shit mike!!
27andkickinit 1 year ago 3
Nice Song!
JacksonLoverMJ 1 year ago
It's really your thing to sing such beautiful songs as no one other can do - and that in the age of 10 - you were a superstar from the beginning - great, simply great!
.. and the bad, who molested you, they are really nothing, maybe they will get a good treatment by the death-doctor for their sickness.
darkchildilikeit59 1 year ago
It's so sad thinking that his little blanket maybe can be singing right now at his age or at least the next year
missbkwards2 1 year ago
Little MJ with an ancient soul.
bleuivy 1 year ago 9
mj cant be human, its like hes so perfect.
Redrumhydro 1 year ago
Amazing footage, THANK YOU.
Srhandel 1 year ago 3
is in AWE..had to watch it twice..goosebumps much?...i think these ppl didn't know what 2 think. R.I.P KING<3 we love you
rlooxvye22 1 year ago 4
my world michael was not ramping!!!! his voice, moves,dance,aura touches every inch of my SOUL! i can not imagine how the people then must of felt... you are a billion times more then a genius... wish u never slipped away alone it hurts.
carmelb76 1 year ago 4
@carmelb76 ..I am one of the people who experienced Michael (Michael and I are 2 years apart) as a youngster singing tunes like it's your thing...The experience is difficult to put into words...all I can tell you is...I fell in love from the very first note and time they debuted on T.V. in 1969..We literally grew up together...their record sales went off the charts and my ambition was to become a Jackson! ;))
rockdiva888 1 year ago
OMG!!! mike in only 10 years old!! and has so much presence!!! he's 10!! and he can make that a whole adult and dull audience begin to sing with him!! he was born to be a star!!! i love you mike!!!
sppoky 1 year ago 6
People should stop wondering who's gonna be the next king,
but i'm sorry,
if you don't start like this you can not be the next king of music.
Djlullaby22 1 year ago 5
Good video for the time. MJ was determined to engage that audience. Maybe it the type of event that kept the audience so reserved.
nutothis1 1 year ago
there are no words! his talent will never be paralleled. absolutely amazing.
kdrumsax 1 year ago
OMG, I hope this stays well preserved! It's such a beautiful thing to capture!! Michael had POWER in his voice. He had grace in his steps!
All the while, he was just a little kid!
I could watch footage of him all day! He always amazes me.
"Often IMITATED but never duplicated."
I've seen quite a few interviews where people have said he was well beyond his own age and have seen his childhood interviews.
I'm very sad. =(
aGwEENapple 1 year ago 4
His beautiful, precious little voice. =)
aGwEENapple 1 year ago
Everytime I watch this I am in awe.
Neciy83591 1 year ago
leave it to the amazing michael jackson to get the WORLDS DULLEST crowd to clap and sing WOW amazing boy and man his voice is AMAZING!!! here! love u mike rip
thebigrigtrucker 1 year ago 3
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StephyBatgirl1992 1 year ago 2
This is absoloutly incredible, the singing, the dancing, the entertaining, all that from a little 10 year old boy. I don't know what is wrong with that audience I would have been screaming.
Lannielst 1 year ago 5
@Lannielst I think the audience is probably just to impressed to screem or move haha.....
Manciara 1 year ago 2
@Lannielst I feel you on the audience not being very lively! But you gotta remember that was their first time seeing little Michael! I just think they were stuck in their seats and speechless! They couldn't believe what they were seeing. Mike had to do a soul clap to make them snap out of it! LOL! At least I hope that's why they weren't jumping and screaming!
nicjacksonmusic 1 year ago
That little child with that big voice. I know Mike had a lot of adults shaking their heads at Motown. If I was famous entertainer at motown and J5 had made one of my songs over and Mike snapped like how he did Whos Loving You, I would have been walking past Mike sticking my feet out tryin to trip his lil ass :) It's all love MJ miss you a bunch. But you aint about to make my song over and do it better than me LOL!
parisfi 1 year ago 2
AMAZING CHILD !!!
Love U Mike : )
Lauren78100 1 year ago 2
No wonder people caleed him a 40 year old midget. It's like he'd been performing for decades and yet he's probably still 10 there! On most of the Jackson5 songs it does sound like a child is singing but the incredible thing is he's got the vocal control of decades work. It's like he was born an entertainer with all the tools inbuilt already
LuluLovesYouMore 1 year ago 21
he had more sophistication at 10 than most of these current acts have at 20 or 30!
deathstare7 1 year ago 36
the crowd suck..dude...but mj was killling..idk if they realized they were looking at greatness..because i don't know kids to day that can dance and just basically entertain like he did during this peformance..to be is to misunderstood...
bria129312 1 year ago 4
oh. my. god. HE IS SUCH A GOOD DANCER HOLY BALLS MAN!!!!!! I"M FLABERGASTED HAHAA!!!
danserchique 1 year ago 2
I Love His Voice So Wonderful
MichaelJacksonLuvsMe 1 year ago 2
Already a king. A mature performer. At 10.... goose bumps
Lisboooa 1 year ago 5
man....he clearly was not of this world.....extraordinary from birth
Rest in peace love
dancinqueen09 1 year ago 10
this is like some very experienced entertainer caught in a little boy's body...his talent gets me everytime,he is incredible ! and what presence on stage...amazing. may he rest in peace.
MySharonaxxx 1 year ago 6
This was awesome, thank you for sharing.
dnsimmonsKOTD 1 year ago
lol omg his dance at 2:09 was too cute
jammd05 1 year ago 5
god this is fucking gold hahahahaha, I love it thanks for uploading!
Wally773MTG 1 year ago 3
Hell No, Mike invented the Crip Walk Lol.
205breed 2 years ago 41
YES!!!!!! OMG!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
nadimu143 1 year ago
@205breed I was thinking the same thing, I said is Mike doing the C-Walk!
aqueencee1 1 year ago
@205breed LOL!!!!!! And the camel walk looked like the Moonwalk today.
nutothis1 1 year ago
@205breed lmfao thats what i was thinking
datmixedkid2396 11 months ago
so adorable.
Veo17 2 years ago
Listen to him sayin', "Let me hear you sing!"
He's owning that stage in 1969!
What a little guy!
He reigned for over 40 years on this earth.
And he still reigns even in death.
Long reign our King.
8mycrab 2 years ago 12
did he say soul clap, i love this boy! look how he engages the crowd.damn i can't believe he gone...
7fire7ice7 2 years ago 7
look at him crip walking and camel walking...damn lil man could do it all and he could sing!
7fire7ice7 2 years ago 6
i LOVE the jackson 5!!! micheal was awesome!
sunshinegurl102 2 years ago 3
This is incredible!
Miraculous79 2 years ago 7
Who wouuld have belieived that this young musical genuis would grow up to be the king of music by the tender age of 30 RIP MJ you always will be loved
kris0kel 2 years ago
Look at Michael's timing, listen to his voice, feel his soul!
Mike at 10 controlling the audience.
Mike always did that run and kick well.
The first ever TV appearance and Mike looks, sounds, acts like this is his trillionth time.
Thank you God Almighty for Michael Jackson. What a blessing you bestowed on us! Praise you Father!
And forgive us for what we did to hurt Michael. May we have Yours and his forgiveness.
May your incredibly beautiful soul RIP Michael.
Love you 4 eternity
BACforMJ 2 years ago 78
@BACforMJ hi can someone pleasae explain to me what "kick and run" is please please...
and which one is "crip walk" thanks.....PM me if its okay or reply
dulcerose16 1 year ago
@BACforMJ Just what I was thinking, at 10! No wonder they thought he was a little adult! He's SO groovy+smooth! Thank you God for that gift :}
MJSweetChildofGod 1 year ago
@BACforMJ that was deep i know that if michael heard that he would be very happy
TheOrbitmoonstar 1 year ago
@BACforMJ i agree FORGIVE US, U WERE A BLESS
angelrenny 1 year ago
@BACforMJ You said it so beautifully, that's everything I wanted to say.
Michael Jackson was a beautiful gift from GOD that inspired so many people, me especially. I thank GOD for 2 artists that really touches me with their music and really has GOD's hand on them, MJ is one of the 2. I see him and it's like GOD is speaking to me through Michael. MJ represented everything that music, beauty, and love should be. I will L.O.V.E. Michael Jackson for the rest of my life!! Praise the LORD!!!
daphnerh1984 1 year ago
I LOVE the way he sings this.
itsSarahelizabeth1 2 years ago 2
Michael is the greatest, what kid at 9 or 10 can not only sing but dance like Michael, that's what set him apart from other child performers, he combines the 2 better than anyone,he could sang and dance is ass off
nelvern07 2 years ago 2
I dont even think they even signed with Motown yet. The video quality is poor but this may be the ONLY version of this performance. The group is still very RAW but you can see the talent. Apparently Motown saw it and cultivated it and the rest was HISTORY!!! R.I.P. MIKE 1958--2009
elwin38 2 years ago 2
wow this is amazing!!! thanks for sharing! Michaels vocals are amazing!
Screengems1 2 years ago 3
The funkiest boy ever! MJ is like a mini James Brown.
1996azcpa 2 years ago 5
Little mikey was a little funkster
edavisdavis 2 years ago 5
I always have a good nite video but i could not get online last nite so this is my good morning video...good morning MJ love you always
wanda12003 2 years ago 3
Holy crap! I think I just saw the most breath taking performance as kid from Michael! That was moving. He was such a man already. wow!
ZoRenol69 2 years ago
you can here a little country in mikes voice too.he was a old soul in little boys body.
strawberryiesable 2 years ago 5
you think you missed out? i was born in 96. i missed out! my generation's music and today's entertainers suck. i wish that i was born in the seventies.
mapelleaff 2 years ago 9
i was born in 97 i agree with you
mikejfan1997 2 years ago
94 i agree with you
baseballllll1 2 years ago
@baseballllll1 i was born in 97 2
Mrsbeyonce1 2 years ago
@mapelleaff i do to the music now days is horrible cussing and stuff a shame
Mrsbeyonce1 2 years ago
me 87..still im late..i want 1958 to be exact
dulcerose16 1 year ago
I desperately need a time machine! I was born in 77, and I missed out on a lot!
BermudaEntrepreneur 2 years ago
The Crip walk and a forwards version of the moonwalk at age 10. The King of Pop is a trite title for him. He should just be The Entertainer.
TheVariedEdbanger 2 years ago 10
yo' this audience is not taking these young boy's serious I guess they know now
myfunkyway9 2 years ago 6
"Gone Too Soon" ~A true MJ fan from the heart~
izzyme3 2 years ago 6
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he's not gone to soon he had a great career and life he got totravel and see the world he had every thing he ever wanted god was just calling for him to come home and thats how i like to think of it.and by me only being 20 50years is a long life
strawberryiesable 2 years ago
michael was so sily and funny as a kid
strawberryiesable 2 years ago 2
did he know what he was singing..
blingbling098 2 years ago 4
Such a talent indeed, amazing. Way ahead of his time! Rest in Peace Michael(L)
jackson5fan6 2 years ago 6
do that shit mike!!
27andkickinit 2 years ago 2
Yo Michael KILLED THAT.
DAMN.
RIP.
yserrant 2 years ago 12
Love Mike's camel walk at 2:19-2:25. A true visionary...WAY ahead of his time.
Peace & love, MJJ
GMan6254048 2 years ago 5
Great full song, Thank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
jijitender 2 years ago 3
It's yout thing : The isley brother
lesdjinnes 2 years ago
Look at him falling in line with his brothers' steps at 2:39!
I keep coming back to this video because I feel both awe and a little discomfort. My jaw drops everytime I watch it but at the same time, ali0015 said: "did he know what he was singin?"
This is the discomfort part. Judging from his moves and the audiences reaction to the pelvic thrusts, it seems so to me. And assuming he did know, I think no 10 year old is supposed to be that sexually aware...
barisms 2 years ago 5
if you read the moonwalk book he wrote him self he said when he was around this age he did not know what he was singing about he just sung what he was told
dancinchick33 2 years ago
I haven't read Moonwalk. I saw an interview with 11-12 year old Michael however and he was very convinced "he wouldn't sing what he didn't mean". Oxymoron yes, I'm sure this was what he was told to say but when I consider his extraordinary ability to interprete a song his own way from very very early ages, I have a hard time understanding how one "interpretes" and channels the right emotions when he does not understand the meaning of it.
barisms 2 years ago 3
@barisms and they say there's nothing sexual about michael as a person..but then as an artist he can always do what he wants to portray on stage whether its trying to be bad, sexy, cool, smooth, kind, innocent..he can portray anything and anyone..as they said michael can be anything he wants to be, because he does anything on a higher level..it was said that he can mimic anyone's moves and vocal style even..with michael there are no limitations..that is why he's colorless
dulcerose16 1 year ago 3
rest in peace...
OepsKuki 2 years ago
Such talent :)
loupootoo 2 years ago
outstanding I think this was their 1 st public performance at the black beauty pagent...R>I>P MJ
DJSTARR1709 2 years ago 2
Michael <3
MICHAEL4everKING 2 years ago
You are THE ROCK STAR MJ . . . man, young and gifted . . . bl;essed from above, as you said . . . always thanking God for your gifts!
sanantoniomimi 2 years ago
Mike had incredible stage presence! OMG..can you say mannish!?!?! lolol I see you Mike I see you!
miarjay 2 years ago 17
Amazing ... Just Amazing... Indeed The Chosen One...
Sharonbrownispeciali 2 years ago 17
Was this before they got famous?
atennala 2 years ago
Yes. They were already sined to Motown. But the big audince dind'nt know the yet.
timdutchboy 2 years ago
he was only like 10! OMG he was an amazing lil fella
love u michael, ur always the best!
7fire7ice7 2 years ago 7
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1:50 thru 2:15 he luks so cute i cant stop smilin n playin ova n ova
MzCutie97 2 years ago
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MzCutie97 2 years ago
slick move 2:34-2:35
reesesncreme 2 years ago
In 300 years, if earth still exists, he will be remembered as Mozart of R&B/Pop/Soul/Funk, I promise!
PaulaTracy60 2 years ago 10
Did this little cat just do the Camel Walk? To be that young and be able to do would I just saw. Incredible. Now you GOT to know there is a God.
hmsheppard 2 years ago 7
THE CHOSEN ONE...MICHAEL RIP
rinityt53 2 years ago 4
3:53 & beyond is completely amazing
this kid is 10 dancing like a pimp at a playa's ball, then looks to the rest of the group & falls in line with the steps like its nothing
gangsta
gshock2000 2 years ago 11
The lyric to this song are under the Isley Brothers....
ozziedavis 2 years ago
is this their first televised performance? wow such a historic moment if it is.
v2174230322 2 years ago 4
sang it mike!!! it just blows my mind how he remembers the dance steps while singing he was just a kid. and OMG don't get me started on that voice
27andkickinit 2 years ago 2
I love his lil' southern accent back then.
hervogue 2 years ago 3
what are the lyrics to this i cant find it ANYWHERE!
13mBrigette 2 years ago
LOLS! Oh Mike... <3
I was as surprised as the audience when he did his little pelvic thrust. XD I didn't know he was doing that even when he was young... Oh, you're so cute, Mike.
MySerenity5 2 years ago 2
hahahahaha...that is the crip walk at 1:19. I love him:)
k21im 2 years ago
it was not the crip walk ?
oku12 2 years ago
we're talking about 1:19
TasiaIdol3Fan 2 years ago
lol it do look like da c walk
trap199 2 years ago
it did though lol
peevymo 2 years ago
Is that the crip walk dance at 1:19 or is it my imagination playing tricks on me.
TasiaIdol3Fan 2 years ago 4