On this day in music history: December 27, 1971 - Greatest Hits by The Jackson 5 is released. Produced by The Corporation, Hal Davis, and Bobby Taylor, it is recorded at The Sound Factory, Hitsville USA West Studios in Hollywood, CA and Motown Studio A in Detroit, MI from July 1969 - October 1971. The eleven song LP is the first hits compilation of the groups work released on Motown Records from 1969 to 1971. It also features the newly recorded track Sugar Daddy (#3 R&B, #10 Pop) which will become another million selling single for the superstar family group. Original LP pressings will also contain a stereo mix of the single Mamas Pearl featuring the re-recorded vocals used for the mono single version. However, at some point, this version will be replaced by the original LP version from the Third Album on later repressings. The LPs cover art features a portrait of the Jacksons with initial pressings featuring embossing on the portraits frame and is perforated so that it can be punched out of the cover and framed. Greatest Hits will also be issued as a quadraphonic stereo LP in 1975 (in Japan only), featuring noticeably different mixes of the tracks. Highly sought after by collectors, copies of this very rare version can sell for up to $500 today. The compilation will go in and out of print over the years as more comprehensive collections of the groups hits are issued in its place. It will be remastered and reissued on CD one final time in 1998 before being deleted again in the mid 2000s. Greatest Hits will peak at number two on the Billboard R&B album chart, number twelve on the Top 200, selling over four million copies in the US alone.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 21:00:06 +0000
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