THE JACKSON 5 - I CAN YOU FEEL IT

I CAN YOU FEEL IT

THE JACKSON 5

SONGWRITERS: MICHAEL JOE JACKSON & JACKIE JACKSON

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: TRIUMPH

LABEL: EPIC RECORDS

GENRE: SOUL MUSIC

YEAR: 1980

Triumph is the fourteenth studio album by the Jacksons, released in 1980 on Epic Records.

It was certified platinum in the US and peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard 200. The Triumph album sold three million copies in its original run. Hit singles from the album were "Lovely One", "Heartbreak Hotel" (which was renamed "This Place Hotel" to avoid confusion with the Elvis Presley song of the same name) and "Can You Feel It".

The Jacksons shared lead vocals and solo spots on some songs, but Michael Jackson, who had recently released his multi-platinum selling album, Off the Wall, handles most of the lead vocal and writing duties. Triumph was the Jacksons' first album to reach number-one on the Billboard R&B Albums chart since Maybe Tomorrow in 1971. The album sold over two million copies worldwide, and the Jacksons did not release another studio LP until Victory in 1984. On December 10, 1980, the album was certified Platinum for the sales of over 1 million copies in the United States.

In 1977, the Jackson 5 were among a small group of artists eligible to receive the newly minted Madison Square Garden Gold Ticket Award for selling over 100,000 tickets to their concerts there. They received the award from Madison Square Garden when they played there as The Jacksons in 1981. On September 3, 1980, the brothers were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as The Jacksons. As the Jackson 5, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. Two of the band's recordings ("ABC" and "I Want You Back") are among the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, while the latter track also included in the Grammy Hall of Fame. On September 8, 2008, the Jacksons were honored as BMI Icons at the annual BMI Urban Awards.

In 1992, Suzanne de Passe, Jermaine Jackson, and Jermaine's then common-law wife Margaret Maldonado, worked with Motown to produce The Jacksons: An American Dream, a five-hour television miniseries broadcast based on the history of the Jackson family in a two-part special on ABC.

Influenced by the Temptations, the Supremes, James Brown, The Teenagers and Sly & the Family Stone, the group eventually served as the inspiration for several generations of boy bands, including New Edition, Menudo, New Kids on the Block, NSYNC, the Jonas Brothers, Backstreet Boys, One Direction, and many more.

The rise of the Jackson 5 in the 1960s and 1970s coincided with the rise of a very similar musical family, the Osmonds. The Osmonds had risen to fame as regular performers on The Andy Williams Show; Jay Osmond would later note: "Michael had a unique sense of humor about him, and told us he was so tired of watching the Osmonds on The Andy Williams Show. He explained this was something their father had them do, and Michael joked he became really tired of it!" The song "One Bad Apple", written by George Jackson, who had the Jackson Five in mind when he wrote it, was originally presented to Motown Record's Chairman of the Board Berry Gordy for the group to record, but he turned it down. It was then presented to MGM Records for the Osmonds. "One Bad Apple", which the Osmonds recorded in a similar style to the songs of the Jackson 5 at the time, reached number one and began a string of several hits for the Osmonds. Both bands followed a similar career trajectory: a string of several hits as a group, which eventually led to a breakout star (Michael for the Jacksons, Donny for the Osmonds) becoming a solo artist, a little sister not originally part of the group also rising to fame (Janet Jackson and Marie Osmond respectively), and eventual decline as a smaller group in the 1980s. The two groups' members eventually became friends, despite public perception of a rivalry between the two and allegations that the Osmonds, White Mormon brothers from Utah, were an imitation of the black Jackson 5.

Can you feel it,can you feel it,can you feel it!

If you look around

The whole world's coming together now.

Can you feel it,can you feel it,can you feel it!

Feel it in the air

The wind is taking it everywhere.

Can you feel it,can you feel it, can you feel it!

All the colors of the world should be

Lovin' each other wholeheartedly.

Yes it's alright,take my message to your brother and tell him twice.

Spread the word who tried to teach the man who is hatin' his brother,

When hate won't do

'cause we're all the same

Yes the blood inside of me is inside of you.

Now tell me!

Can you feel it,can you feel it,can you feel it!

Can you see what's going down, you can feel it in your bones

Every breath you take,

Is someone's death in another place.

Every healthy smile,

Is hunger and strife to another child.

But the stars do shine

And promising salvation is near this time.

Can you feel it now,

So brothers and sisters

Shall we know how.

Now tell me!

Can you feel it,tell me can you feel it,can you feel it!

Talk now can you see what's going down open up your mind.

All the children of the world should be

Lovin' each other wholeheartedly

Yes it's alright

Take my message to your brother and tell him twice.

Take the news to the marchin' men

Who are killin' their brothers,when death won't do.

Yes we're all the same

Yes the blood inside my veins is inside of you.

Now tell me!

Can you feel it,can you feel it,can you feel it!

Can you feel it,can you feel it,can you feel it!