Jackson 5 - 'Medley: Stand!, Who's Loving You, I Want You Back' On The Ed Sullivan Show REACTION!! 

it's wild when you realize that MJ spent 45/50 years of his life singing and performing and gave 40/50 years of his life to the music industry.

Michael Jackson became the lead singer of the group at age 5 after he brought the school falculty to tears when he sang "Climb Every Mountain" at a school recital. Once he joined the group he was rehearsing every day and joining local competitions, others in further cities and many in other states. He never had formal vocal training. It just came natural to him. He was the very definition of "prodigy".

Mrs. Jackson said she knew Michael was special while she was pregnant. She said he was dancing in her belly. She said Michael showed rhythm and melody when he was under a year old and couldn't even walk.

puberty was hard for michael because - as he said himself - everyone still wanted little michael. he felt a lot of pressure. noone knew what would happen to his voice. as a grown up he had a (lyrical) very flexible and colorful tenor voice with a lot of strength in the height.

What’s so crazy to me is the way he was always able to emote the lyrics in any song. At such a young age even if I could sing it sure wouldn’t come across as so heartfelt. He was truly passionate for music because he couldn’t possibly understand the realities of the song yet the way he always delivers is just astounding.

I remember when they broke into the scene. They were something else! Yes, I’m that old.

GOAT!!!!!!!! Please react to his Grammy award performance in 1988!!! Fun fact: Michael had to show his birth certificate to prove that he was a 11 year old kid because nobody believed that a human being would be that talented at this age. He was gifted from start to finish. Goat goat goat

Michael Jackson's talent was purely God given. When you are chosen, you are simply chosen! People train their whole lives to delivery that level of soul and power in a song. It always came naturally to him. A true musical talent gone way too soon. 💕

There will NEVER be another like the Jackson 5 & there DAMN SURE will NEVER be another like Michael Jackson. Enjoyed you guys' reaction to these classic performances. There's a reason why this family is so LEGENDARY.

Little Michael always make me smile. He was so adorable

MJ was truly out of this world

The Greatest Boy Band Of All Time! The Others Don’t Stand A Chance And It Doesn’t Hurt To Have The Greatest Music Artist To Ever Live Michael Joseph Jackson With You😇🙌🏽👑❤️🔥💫(And to answer your questions I suggest you React to The Jackson 5 1972 or 1974 performances that’s when you can tell MJ was going through puberty but he always had a natural talent he never got taught how to dance or sing he was born with it truly React to Jackson 5 On The Sonny And Cher Comedy Hour Full 1972 Performance it’s phenomenal and shows that MJ adapted to his post puberty voice MJ dominated from Childhood to Adulthood MJ was already popular before the 80’s he just skyrocketed with Thriller in the 80’s and throughout his entire career Long Live The King Of Music Forever!)

btw Who's loving by little MJ is EPIC. This is the version everybody tries to emulate ever since. I wonder how you've never heard of it...

He was 11 at that time (that particular show took place on December 14, 1969), and he had already been singing and dancing for 6 years at that age. Most of what you’re hearing is insane natural talent plus the long harsh rehearsals by a strict father every day. That’s the reason why he always kept stressing that he had no childhood. After he went through puberty, he tried to sing in a heady mixed voice at first (Rock With You, Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough), so the fans would still make the connection between the child star and the grown-up. It didn’t take him long to create his own singing style with his trademark gasps, his raspy belting, and his hee hee’s, and people loved it. As for your questions how you teach a kid to sing like that at such a young age - if there’s no natural talent, then you don’t. You can’t. I’ve worked with kids for almost 20 years, and among other things I taught them music - if you want to teach them rhythm and how to clap or stomp different beats, you usually cannot do it properly before the age of seven. They’re simply not ready earlier, developmentwise. As for singing, I find that many still struggle with hearing and singing on pitch at age 11, the age Michael was in this video. There are exceptions, obviously, but these facts just to help you appreciate his god-given musical genius even more. The 60’s through 80’s, and part of the 90’s, before the invention of autotune in ’97 and heavily computer processed voices that have nothing to do with singing skills anymore, was a fantastic era with many great artists and fantastic live concerts. That was still real music back then that you could enjoy, and I was happy to see that you both did. Thank you for a great reaction! Oh, and btw, anyone that likes to bash Michael for singing playback during some live performances, and particularly the ’97 leg of the HIStory tour - they should watch this video of the Ed Sullivan Show to be reminded that he already had perfect pitch, perfect technique, and total vocal control at age 11, you don’t lose that as you get older. Most of the time he would use playback for parts of a song only, but do ad-libs and endings live, and he was so good that people barely noticed the difference, and had a hard time telling what bits were live and which weren’t. The reason for the playbacks wasn’t that he couldn’t deliver - it was his perfectionism. His dancing was always live after all, but in ’97 he was almost 40, and at that age, despite the many years of training, your body’s stamina simply isn’t the same anymore as it was in your twenties. He still wanted people to have the perfect experience, so he saved his energy by not singing live AND dancing for two hours straight anymore for an average of 80-120 shows per tour. Who can blame him? So I hope after seeing this reaction and especially ”Who’s loving you”, people will give him a break and remember what a one-of a kind genius he was.

I miss Michael. He was exactly 2 weeks older than me so in a way we grew up together even though I never saw him in person. I watched him on tv and listened to his songs all the time we were growing up.

When his voice changed they just lowered the key half a step to match his new singing register so that he could still hit all of the notes. The beauty about Michael is that even as an adult, he still could sing really high and also had a falsetto register that he could use to hit some of the higher notes.

Back when you needed actual talent to be on television.

God's talent jar must have been almost empty after he made MJ..that voice coming out of that little guy? Perplexing, enthralling magic... wonderful

How cute Michael looks!!!

Great reaction guys. The crazy thing is you can literally watch MJ's evolution as an artist..childhood, teen, young adult and then boom Icon. He would still perform some of those J5 songs out of respect to where he began.

By far the best child singer I’ve ever heard! For real!

Michael was a sensation because of his age and he had an amazing voice and he was singing love songs while still in elementary school.

This the Reason Why He Is 👑.

Ya'll should check out Michael performing the Jackson 5 medley as an adult on the dangerous tour, or maybe with all the Jacksons in 2001. It's so amazing to see how much the dances and songs evolved on stage over the years.

First, all Jacksons have soft voices. Listen to Jackie or Jermaine. Michael's voice wasn't so high, as you indicated. He CHOOSE to speak in a higher register, but his singing voice was different. He could sing high and LOW.

Starting in the music industry since the age of 5, performing onstage live since a kid and died at 50 before going back to live stage again. So sad that he died at 50. 50 is kinda young

The Goat!!!!!

MJ🐐 Please react to more MJ

His mother said he was born with that talent. Great.

He was born with the GIFT!!

The Jacksons, J5 are Music Royalty! MJ is and always be the Greatest Entertainer of All Time!

Michael was born in 1958. He started singing and practicing with his brothers when he was 5 years old in 1963. I was born before The Jackson 5 got signed with Motown in 1968 when Michael was 10 years old. This video clip on The Ed Sullivan Show is from 1970 when they hit big. Michael was 12 by then.

Insane!!!!

Albums by MJ and the J5. 1969 (J5) Diana Ross and The Jackson 5 1970 (J5) ABC / (J5) Third Album / (J5) Jackson 5 Christmas Album 1971 (J5) Maybe Tomorrow / (J5) Goin' Back To Indiana (live concert album) / (J5) Lookin' Through The Windows 1972 (MJ - 14) Got To Be There / (MJ - 14) Ben 1973 (J5) Skywriter / (J5) G.I.T.: Get It Together / (J5) The Jackson 5 In Japan (live concert album) / (MJ - 15) Music & Me 1974 (J5) Dancing Machine 1975 (J5) Moving Violations / (MJ - 16) Forever Michael 1976 (Jacksons) The Jacksons 1977 (Jacksons) Goin' Places 1978 (Jacksons) Destiny 1979 (MJ - 21) Off The Wall 1980 (Jacksons) Triumph 1981 (Jacksons) The Jacksons Live! 1982 (MJ - 24) Thriller / E.T. The Extra Terrestrial Storybook Album 1984 (Jacksons) Victory 1987 (MJ - 29) Bad 1989 (Jacksons) 2300 Jackson Street 1991 (MJ - 33) Dangerous 1995 (MJ - 37) HIStory: Past, Present & Future Book I 1997 (MJ - 39) Blood On The Dance Floor: HIStory In The Mix 2001 (MJ - 43) Invincible

Checkout the Motown 25 Jackson 5 performance! its in the 80's,michael is older and in the thriller Era singing those songs! performs Billie jean and moonwalks for the very for time in the same video! give it a watch boys !

React Michael Jackson "Bad" and "Remember The Time"

Ed Sullivan made everyone famous!! He brought a huge range of people on his show. He did very little talking. He let everyone do their acts.

12 Years old in this video, men, MJ the GREATEST of All time, MJ forever

Michael was a natural born singer. Nobody taught him how to sing.

Michael sweetheart baby, my biggest love - forever missed!

Well, Ed Sullivan was not much of an announcer, but he got all the talent every week! Everyone watched this show. We used to call him little Michael Jackson....

Please do more Jackson Five and Michael Jackson reactions. MJ 1988 Grammy performance. MJ is the GOAT of GOATS 👑❤

I am so happy to see you reacted to this!! Epic!!! The king!! He was amazing, a genius, a talent from God!!🥰🥰🇷🇴🇷🇴🤴🤴🤴🤴 r.i.p M.J the real king 😢😢

When he could really sing. He is so smooth in his singing and dancing. Pure unexplainable talent. Magic!

The G.O.A.T entertainer of all time. did it on top for 50YRS..

Attended my first Jackson 5 concert at the age of 5 in 1970.

You guys are killing me !!! 😆 🤣 😂 !! No Ed Sullivan was like that ... ALWAYS !

Love this since I’m named after MJ

great to see you guys reacting to these type of music 🥺 love it

When Michael was in his late teens, The Jackson 5 had 2 hits songs, Blame it on the Boogie and Dancing Machine. That will give you an idea of how his voice sounded then. When he was 21, he released his first solo album in 1979, Off the Wall.

Stand is a Sly & Family Stone cover and Who’s Loving You was a Smokey Robinson cover. I remember watching this…it was 1968 and I was 5.

He even started in 1969. So he was in the 60's too !! Crazy

Please react to man in the mirror live

Michael jackson and the jackson five were sent to us by god for sure

MJ !!💕💕💕 Musical Protégé!!! 💕 Jacksons 5 !! Gifted !! Like ya reactions!!

Original song Sly and the Family Stone. “Stand” “Who’s Loving You” Originally written and performed by Smokey Robinson. Michael out the song on the map. Last 60s-early 70s.

The shade to Jimmy Fallon got me 😂. On point!

Great reaction. I would like to see your reaction to 'Man In The Mirror' Moonwalker version and the official video to 'Another Part Of Me'.

It's still weird to me that we live in a world without Michael... For 25 years of my life he was EVERYWHERE and he had already been big for 20 years when I was born.. It's inane.. I'm Norwegian but I was in Amsterdam on holiday when he died.. After babysitting my friends tripping on shrooms I went for a walk and In the park at 5am I found a Norwegian newspaper with Michael's death on the Frontpage.. We had just learned about it a few hours earlier..

Now you see why Michael was considered a genius.

I am 2 years to late for this, but I do wonder if you ever checked out Jackson 5 stuff from when he was a teenager. Cause his voice is actually just as wonderful. Deeper, obviously but still wonderful. He basically sounds like the Michael Jackson WE know just in a group. I know they had a variety show at one time, that was probabaly another reason why didn't release as much music in the later years. Their Destiny album is amazing though (I think that was their last album as a group). If you haven't yet, check out "blame it on the boogie" and "Can you feel it."

Re: Ed Sullivan's "lack of charm". That's why his show was so successful. He allowed the stars to shine!!!!

Michael Jackson was and will always be the GOAT of pop music.

From England ..Donny Osmond and Michael Jackson adorned my room 70s I'm now 61 yrs ...thanks for the memories x

This brings back so many memories 😁 in my generation you had to have raw talent because it was no machines to help you out no one playing your song no lip sync.

Twice have a song cover "i want you back" by MJ

Pensar que entre esos niños estaría el futuro Astro musical, compositor y bailarín más grande del milenio

06:34 you reaction - the same- his move was so cool so natural so passionate. and 08:14 the jimmy fallon impression oh man lol in all, this is just treasure of in the history of humanity

Michael actually sang and performed through puberty with the Jackson 5/The Jacksons. You should check those performances out!

There were 10 Jackson siblings, Rebbie the eldest sister and child, Jackie the eldest brother, Tito, Jermaine, LaToya, Marlon and his twin brothers Brandon who died at birth, Michael, Randy(not the same from American Idol and then a following a five year gap Janet. Rebbie was all ready married when her brothers made ir. It's the five eldest boys who make up the Jackson 5, when they left Motown Jermaine stayed and Randy took his spot and they became the Jacksons. Janet was 2 when her brothers became famous and made her first tv appearance at 5. She doesn't remember life before they were famous. Since her dad was always on the road she didn't suffer the same abuse the rest of her siblings did

Michael Jackson was known for occasionally slurring his words in certain parts of his songs, but still managing to sound good. He did this to add his own unique style or sometimes simply because he didn't care. This is my personal observation.

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Yup, my hometown. They lived two miles from me. We all loved to watch them so much. He was truly VERY GIFTED. When I go and visit Gary I stop by their home. It was sooooo small and to think 9 kids and two parents lived in that shoebox.

60s 70s 80s 90s 2000s number 1ns all over the world.

You should also listen to the song " Ben" sing by Michael Jackson is amazing ..won a golden globe ..and imagine to be for sooo manny years no 1 in music ... insane 🥰👏👏🤴🤴🤴🤴

the group was together through Michael's teens, after his voice changed. after awhile the group wasn't doing very well, but Michael solo was on fire. if you want to see him do the old songs as an adult watch their performance on the Motown 25 anniversary special. All five brothers get together and do a medley of their early hits.

Ed Sullivan: His non-charisma was his charisma

❤ Ready or not was my favorite J5 song

That so called charismatic host was Ed Sullivan one of the monsters of late night television back in the 50's and 60's.

THANK YOU, GUYS!!

Hey guys - watch the Motown 25 medley of Jackson 5 songs to see how MJ performed their songs as an adult ☺️

It's mindboggling, sad & other worldly impressive that from this age right here he was performing pitch perfect music while killing choreography and did so without ceasing or break literally until the day he died. And he only got obscenely better. That's crazy to me.

God gave him special talent that no one can be match. Bruce sweiden said that MJ IS SPECIAL.There will never be another MJ. THE GREATEST ENTERTAINER AND MUSICIAN.

You don't learn to sing like that; he was born with that ability. And of course daily rehearsals with his brothers.

A couple of things to say. Ed Sullivan was always a stoic host, but he was extremely powerful in the entertainment business, and his show reached millions of households around the world, so he could be still look like that. Secondly, how they addressed Michael’s voice changes that they wrote songs that matched all of their voices, and whenever they performed the old songs when they were grown men, they of course would change the key.

Host Ed Sullivan had that same persona whether he was introducing somebody spinning plates on a stick or was introducing the Beatles to America.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Michael then,now and Forever...rip King👑❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

This appearance on the Ed Sullivan show was in the early ‘70s, not the “60s. I know this because I was born 1 year before Michael Jackson and witnessed his entire career in real time. I learned how to dance because I was so inspired by the Jackson 5.

Lol haha yesss ed Sullivan was really wooden to us

Puberty didn't hurt Mike's voice he simply changed his singing style which changed because of the style of music you young guys have to understand singers back then were home-grown

Mike's a Virgo...he wuz born grown!🤣

i like them

Love all your reactions, the MJ videos. And the Britney reactions the most and just a thought, just like you've reacted to Deep Dive #FreeBritney, you should look at Michael and his tribulations later on in life with the allegations watch square one MJ. The parallels between Michael and Britney and their treatment by the world and the media is very similar.. Michael is the Goat!! always enjoyable videos, keep up the awesome work!

Thats how the shows were.

James Brown Tami Show Performance

Stand is a cover of a Sly and the Family Stone song.

Stand written by Sly Stone Who's Loving You by Smokey Robinson

He started singing and performing at 6 yes old

Dat switch tho lol when Jackie and tito be actin up lol

the best medley