Dancing Machine

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"Dancing Machine" is a 1973 song recorded by The Jackson 5, 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. ^[1]. It bought The Jackson 5 their second Grammy Award nomination in 1975 for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, losing to Rufus and Chaka Khan's Tell Me Something Good.

[edit] Background

The song, which sold over three million copies^[2], popularized the physically complicated Robot 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 Train and several other shows for the next three years.

"Dancing Machine", originally recorded for the group's 1973 album G.I.T.: Get It Together, was also the title track of their 1974 album Dancing Machine released in 1974 as a remix for a response to the success of the single.

"Dancing Machine" was covered by Suburban Legends on their Japan-only EP, Dance Like Nobody's Watching: Tokyo Nights. The song was sampled by MC Hammer on his 1990 album Please Hammer Don't Hurt 'Em, again in 1990 by Vanilla Ice on the album "To The Extreme" and more recently in 2008 by Q-tip for the album The Renaissance ("Move") and Yung Wun for his song "Tear It Up" for his album The Dirtiest Thirstiest, in which the sample was uncredited.

[edit] Credits

• Lead vocals by Michael Jackson and Jermaine Jackson,
• Background vocals by Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Marlon Jackson, and Randy Jackson
• Instrumentation by assorted Los Angeles musicians

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