Jackson 5 - The Love You Save

The Jackson 5's "The Love You Save" has the same elements used on the group's last two number one records: the super-charged youthful energy of the brothers, the interplay between Michael and Jermaine, Tito's kid-bass voice, and top L.A. session musicians. The formula was foolproof. "The Love You Save" hit number one R&B in the summer of 1970 and parked at the top of the pop charts for two weeks. The lyrics of the song were a play of words of the traffic safety slogan "the life you save maybe your own." Transformed into an admonishment of "fast girl" behavior, the song shares an opening similar in form to the Supremes' "Stop in the Name of Love"; while lead singer Diana Ross' "stop!" opening is '60s cool, Michael and the J-5's "stop!!" stops listeners in their tracks like the seering siren of an full-throttle ambulance. Arguably no other track in the group's catalog attained so much mesmerizing mania. "The Love You Save," along with their other chart-toppers, "ABC" and "I Want You Back," was used in the opening montage for the early-'70s ABC-TV cartoon series based on the group.

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[14liddoshawty]

i juss dont understand how ppl who dislike songs they still choice to hear the song lyk rlly?

[flyingdragons1998]

Will real music ever comeback?!

[taigi98]

Michael's voice is to be jealous off.<3 love u MJ

[BurakkiUmbreonDarkum]

Great song!!:D

[fredferrari18]

michael.......

[hoss4327]

accapella is better

[EspecialMoviesByJohn]

@YaBoiBalla1 U have shamed me! Now I must go and hang myself. Goodbye to all my haters.

[jimmychauv]

Isaac said he kissed you

Beneath the apple tree

When Benjie held your hand he felt

E-lec-tri-ci-tee!

When Alexander called you

He said he rang your chimes

Christopher discovered

You're way ahead of your times!

[YaBoiBalla1]

@EspecialMoviesByJohn Lol...tsk...tsk...tsk...smdh..­.look@ you! Just take a good look at you! Look at what I have broken you down into, and exposed you... to show who and what you TRULY ARE...which is a pathetic, lying, hate-filled, substandard, lowly I.Q. having, hillbilly hating hick...lol. And now you want to tell another lie, and get Oprah involved! Oy vey! What more lies do you have? Rant some more.

[Delpha77]

@flyingdragons1998

There are artists out there that fit into the "real music" category..but sadly they don't make it far in the industry these days.

[EspecialMoviesByJohn]

@YaBoiBalla1 the proof is all that semen dripping from your mouth. STOP MOLESTING CHILDRE OR U WILL GET WHAT U DESERVE SCUMBAG! now u have the last word scumbag. i hope someone puts a knife into your eyes for helping kids get molested. i guess Oprah is lieing too. YOU WILL PAY!

[YaBoiBalla1]

@EspecialMoviesByJohn Like I said before...if MJ was a child molester...why don't you just prove it??? Surely, someone who "knows" so much about MJ's private life, such as you seem to infer you do...would have no problem with such a simple task...no? You're really starting to bore me, you know that? You're just making yourself look more and more foolish by every comment you make. It's so hard to beat logic...isn't it?