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Dancing Machine" is a 1973 song recorded by
The Jackson 5The Jackson 5 were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
, released as a single in 1974. The group's first US Top Ten hit since 1972's "Sugar Daddy", "Dancing Machine" reached number two on the Billboard pop music charts and number one on the R&B charts. . It bought
The Jackson 5The Jackson 5 were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
their second
Grammy AwardThe Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...
nomination in
1975The 17th Grammy Awards were presented March 1, 1975, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1974.- Award winners :*Record of the Year...
for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, losing to
RufusRufus was a 1970s American funk band, from Chicago, Illinois; best known for launching the career of their lead singer Chaka Khan. They had several hits throughout their career, including "Tell Me Something Good" , "Sweet Thing", and "Ain't Nobody".-Career:One of the most commercially successful...
and
Chaka KhanChaka Khan, born Yvette Marie Stevens on March 23, 1953, is a Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter best known for such hit songs as "I'm Every Woman", "Ain't Nobody", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire". She sang a modernized theme song for the popular children's TV show Reading Rainbow...
's
Tell Me Something Good"Tell Me Something Good" is Rufus and Chaka Khan's first single. It was a big hit peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, though it didn't chart in the United Kingdom...
.
The song, which sold over three million copies, popularized the physically complicated
RobotThe ROBOT is an illusionary dance style - often confused with popping - that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin...
dance technique, devised by Charles Washington in the late 1960's.
"
Dancing Machine" is a 1973 song recorded by
The Jackson 5The Jackson 5 were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
, released as a single in 1974. The group's first US Top Ten hit since 1972's "Sugar Daddy", "Dancing Machine" reached number two on the Billboard pop music charts and number one on the R&B charts. . It bought
The Jackson 5The Jackson 5 were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
their second
Grammy AwardThe Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry...
nomination in
1975The 17th Grammy Awards were presented March 1, 1975, and were broadcast live on American television. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1974.- Award winners :*Record of the Year...
for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, losing to
RufusRufus was a 1970s American funk band, from Chicago, Illinois; best known for launching the career of their lead singer Chaka Khan. They had several hits throughout their career, including "Tell Me Something Good" , "Sweet Thing", and "Ain't Nobody".-Career:One of the most commercially successful...
and
Chaka KhanChaka Khan, born Yvette Marie Stevens on March 23, 1953, is a Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter best known for such hit songs as "I'm Every Woman", "Ain't Nobody", "I Feel for You" and "Through the Fire". She sang a modernized theme song for the popular children's TV show Reading Rainbow...
's
Tell Me Something Good"Tell Me Something Good" is Rufus and Chaka Khan's first single. It was a big hit peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, though it didn't chart in the United Kingdom...
.
Background
The song, which sold over three million copies, popularized the physically complicated
RobotThe ROBOT is an illusionary dance style - often confused with popping - that attempts to imitate a dancing robot or mannequin...
dance technique, devised by Charles Washington in the late 1960's. Jackson first performed the dance on television while singing "Dancing Machine" with the Jackson 5 on an episode of
Soul TrainSoul Train is a syndicated, music-related television program. In its 35-year history, the show primarily featured performances by rhythm and blues, soul, and hip hop artists, although jazz musicians and gospel singers have also appeared....
and several other shows for the next three years.
"Dancing Machine", originally recorded for the group's 1973 album
G.I.T.: Get It TogetherG.I.T.: Get It Together was the seventh official studio album by The Jackson 5, released in September 1973 for the Motown label....
, was also the title track of their 1974 album
Dancing MachineDancing Machine was the eighth official studio album released by Motown quintet The Jackson 5 in 1974. The album's title track was a #2 pop hit and a #1 R&B hit in the United States, and the album sold over 2.6 million copies worldwide briefly returning the group to their former prominence...
released in 1974 as a remix for a response to the success of the single.
"Dancing Machine" was covered by
Suburban LegendsSuburban Legends is a six-piece pop/rock/third wave ska band that formed in Huntington Beach, California, in 1998, and are currently based out of Santa Ana, California.- History :...
on their
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-only EP,
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. The song was most notably sampled by
MC HammerStanley Kirk Burrell , best known by his stage names MC Hammer, Hammer and Hammertime, is a rapper, entertainer and dancer most popular during the late 1980s until the mid-1990s...
on his 1990 album
Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em, again in 1990 by
Vanilla IceRobert Matthew Van Winkle , best known by his stage name Vanilla Ice, is an American rapper. Born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Texas and South Florida, Van Winkle released his debut album, Hooked, in 1989 through Ichiban Records, before signing a contract with SBK Records, which released a...
on the album
To The ExtremeTo the Extreme is the major label debut studio album of American rapper Robert "Vanilla Ice" Van Winkle. Released in 1990, it is Van Winkle's best selling album. The album was initially released in 1989 by independent record label Ichiban Records under the title Hooked. Van Winkle signed to SBK...
, later on by
Too $hortTodd Anthony Shaw , better known by his showbiz name Too $hort, is an American rapper who started his career at the age of fourteen in Oakland, California...
(featuring
Bun BBernard Freeman , better known by his stage name Bun B, is an American rapper and was one half of the southern hip hop duo UGK.-UGK and Mddl Fngz:...
) on the song "Shout It Out", and more recently in 2008 by
Q-tipKamaal Ibn John Fareed , better known by his stage name Q-Tip, is an American hip hop artist, producer, singer, and actor from Queens, New York City, part of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest.-Personal life:...
for the album
The RenaissanceThe Renaissance is the second studio album by American hip hop artist Q-Tip, released November 4, 2008 on Universal Motown Records in the United States...
("Move") and
Yung WunJames Anderson, better known by his stage name Yung Wun is an American rapper from Atlanta, Georgia.-Biography:Yung Wun was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Yung Wun was raised in Eastlake Meadows housing projects, otherwise known as "Little Vietnam". Yung Wun was very quickly exposed to the effects of...
for his song "
Tear It Up"Tear It Up" is the second single from rapper Yung Wun's debut album, The Dirtiest Thirstiest. It features DMX, Lil' Flip and David Banner.The song samples "Dancing Machine" by The Jackson 5 without credit....
" for his album
The Dirtiest ThirstiestThe Dirtiest Thirstiest is the debut album of rapper Yung Wun. It took an exceptionally long span of time to be released, almost eight years....
, in which the sample was uncredited.
Credits
- Lead vocals by Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson , known as the "King of Pop", was an American musician and one of the most commercially successful and influential entertainers of all time...
and Jermaine JacksonJermaine La Jaune Jackson is an American singer, bassist, composer, former member of The Jackson 5 and older brother of American pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.-Early life:...
,
- Background vocals by Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Tito Jackson
Toriano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson is an American singer and guitarist and original member of the Jackson 5.-Early life and rise to stardom:...
, Jackie JacksonSigmund Esco "Jackie" Jackson is an American singer and musician, a former member of The Jackson 5, and the second child in the Jackson family.-Biography:...
, Marlon JacksonMarlon David Jackson is an American singer, dancer, former member of The Jackson 5, and elder brother of American pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.-Personal life:...
, and Randy JacksonSteven Randall "Randy" Jackson is an African American singer and musician, a member of the Jacksons. Nicknamed "Little Randy", he is the youngest of the Jackson brothers, and the second youngest of the nine performing Jackson siblings, before sister Janet.Randy was only three when the Jackson 5...
- Instrumentation by assorted Los Angeles
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musicians