Jackson Five- 1974

January 10:

One More Chance, a Jackson 5 TV Special is aired on CBS. The group performs Get It Together + a medley of I Want You Back/ABC/I’ll Be There/Ben/Daddy’s Home/Never Can Say Goodbye/The Love You Save and another medley Up a Lazy River/Opus One (with the Mills Brothers)

January 29:

The Jackson 5 arrive in Dakar ( Senegal ) for their first African tour. They hold a press conference with Senegalise radio

During their stay, they receive an award for the Organisation for African Unity and they visit Goree Island and they shoot a film called Isomin Cross And Son which tells of a family crossing the in 1860 and the problems they encounter.













Jackson 5 in Africa Documentary



February 1/2/3:

Concerts in Dakar.







February 4:

The Jackson 5 fly home.

February 22:

Concert in Houston ( Texas )

January 30:

The Jackson 5 perform Dancing Machine at the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.



February 19:

Michael appears at the first annual American Music Awards to present awards with Donny Osmond to The Temptations and with Donny Osmond, Ricky Segal and Ricky Allen to the Carpenters.



March:

The Jackson 5 appear on the cover of Blues & Soul with a feature on their African trip.

March 2:

The Jackson 5 present an award to Gladys Knight & The Pips at the Grammy Awards.











March 7:

The Jackson 5 are on the cover of Jet Magazine.

March 11:

Michael sings When I Grow Up with Roberta Flack at the Free To Be… You and Me TV show.



March 16:

The Jackson 5 perform Dancing Machine & This Old Man/ABC at the Carol Burnett Show.

Dancing Machine



This Old Man/ABC



April:

The Jackson 5 perform It’s Too Late To Change the Time & Dancing Machine at the Mike Douglas Show.



It's Too Late To Change The Time



Dancing Machine



April 4:

The Jackson 5 perform Let It Be, Never Can Say Goodbye & Dancing Machine at the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

Dancing Machine




April 9:

The Jackson 5 perform It’s Too Late To Change The Time & Dancing Machine at the Merv Griffin Show.

Dancing Machine



April 9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/20/21/22/23:

Joe Jackson arranges for the whole family , including sisters Rebbie, LaToya & Janet to perform twice a day a family show at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas ( Nevada ). Katherine attends every shows.







April 10:

The Jackson 5 perform I Want You Back/ABC at the Sandy in Disneyland TV special.





April 26/27/28:

The Jackson family moves her cabaret set to the Sahara Tahoe Hotel in Lake Tahoe ( Nevada )

May 13:

Concert in Washington D.C.

1974 June

Record Plant Studio Recording

Photographer: Todd Gray

Michael at the Los Angeles Record Plant studio with Stevie Wonder. Stevie is producing Michael's next solo album.

"He (Michael) would always come into the studio curious about how I worked and what I did. ‘How do you do that? Why do you do that?’ I think he understood clearly from seeing various people do the music scene that it definitely took work. He must have been around 9 or 10 then, and I definitely felt that he would be someone. You hear the voice, and all he could do is grow. And that’s what he did."
~ Stevie Wonder







June 22:

Concert at the Forum of Los Angeles .

June 24/25/26/27/28/29/30:

Concerts in Chicago ( Illinois )







July 8/9/10/11/12/13/14:

Concerts in San Carlos ( California )

July 19:

Concert in Pittsburg (Pensylvania)

July 20:

Concert in Trenton ( New Jersey )

July 21:

Concert in Richmond ( Virginia )

July 26:

Concert in Buffalo ( New York )

July 27:

Concerts at the Madison Square Garden of New York.











July 29/30/31/August 1/2/3/4:

Concerts in Cleveland ( Ohio )

August 1:

The Jackson family in on the cover of Jet Magazine.

August 6:

Concert in Huntsville ( Alabama )

August 7:

Concert in New Orleans ( Louisiana )

August 10:

Concert in St Louis ( Missouri )

August 11:

Concert in Kansas City ( Missouri )

August 16:

Concert in St Paul ( Minnesota )

August 17:

The Jackson 5 perform at the World Expo in Spokane ( Washington )

August 19:

The Jackson 5 perform Dancing Machine & a medley of Killing Me Softly with his song/By The Time I Get To Phoenix/Danny Boy at the Tonight Show with Bill Cosby.

Part 1



Part 2



August 21/22/23/24/25/26/27/28/30/31/September 1/2/3:

The Jackson family return to the MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas for another series of shows.













August 30:

Cheryl Terrel, Joe’s lover, gives birth to a baby girl named Joh’ Vonnie.

September:

The Jackson 5 appear at the Jerry Lewis Telethon.



September 3:

The Jackson 5 perform Dancing Machine at the Merv Griffin Show and Janet makes her TV debut playing her Las Vegas act with Randy.

Interview



September 5:

The album Dancing Machine is released by Motown.



September 5-October 1:

The Jackson 5 tour South America

September 22:

The Jackson 5 perform Life Of The Party at the Sonny Comedy Revue.

October:

The single Whatever You Got I Want is released by Motown.



October 4/5/6:

New series of family shows in Sahara Tahoe ( Nevada )

October 7-November 1:

The Jackson 5 tours the Far East with concerts in Japan and Hong Kong

October 19:

Michael performs Whatever You Got I Want, What You Don’t Know & If I Don’t Love You This Way at the Soul Train Show.

Whatever You Got I Want



What You Don't Know



If I Don't Love You This Way



November 3:

Concert in Oakland ( California )

November 15:

The Jackson 5 perform Dancing Machine & It’s Too Late To Change The Time at the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.

It's Too Late To Change The Time



Dancing Machine



November 20/21/22/23/24/25/26/27/28/29/30/31/December 1/2/3:

Last series of family shows at the MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas. Backstage, Michael meets Elvis Presley & his daughter Lisa Marie

November 24:

Jackie marries Enid Spann in Las Vegas .

December:

The single I Am Love is released by Motown. The whole Jackson family is on the cover of Ebony magazine