The Love You Save

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"The Love You Save"
Single by The Jackson 5
from the album ABC
Released	May 16, 1970 (U.S.)
Format	Vinyl record (7" 45 RPM)
Recorded	Hitsville West, Los Angeles; 1970
Genre	Bubblegum pop/Soul
Length	3:00
Label	Motown M 1166
Writer(s)	The Corporation
Producer	The Corporation
The Jackson 5 singles chronology
"ABC" (1970) "The Love You Save" (1970) "I'll Be There" (1970)

"The Love You Save" is a 1970 number-one hit single recorded by The Jackson 5 for the Motown label. It held the number-one spot on the soul singles chart for six weeks.^[1] It held the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from June 27 to July 4, 1970. It is the third of four Jackson 5 number ones released in a row (the others being "I Want You Back", "ABC", and "I'll Be There"). "The Love You Save" also features side vocals of Jermaine Jackson singing alongside Michael in the final "Stop! The love you save may be your own" besides Marlon and Tito Jackson.

"The Love You Save" has one of the most distinctive melodies and is the most musically complex of the four number-one singles by The Jackson 5. The song's lyrics feature Michael and Jermaine Jackson warning a "fast" girl to slow down and "stop!" because "the love you save may be your own!"

The opening exclamation of "stop" and the footstomps that complement the rhythm during the latter part of the song are allusions to the 1965 number-one Motown single by The Supremes, "Stop! In the Name of Love". The Jackson 5 essentially replaced The Supremes as Motown's main focus in the early 1970s, although Diana Ross, who left the group for a solo career not long before the release of this single, was publicized as having discovered the Jackson 5.^{[citation needed]}

Like most of the other early Jackson 5 hits, "The Love You Save" was written and produced by The Corporation, a team composed of Motown chief Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, and Deke Richards and recorded in Los Angeles, California, away from the old Motown studio at Hitsville USA in Detroit, Michigan.

"The Love You Save" was the second single from the second Jackson 5 album, ABC.

[edit] Credits

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• Written and produced by The Corporation: Berry Gordy, Jr., Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, and Deke Richards
• Lead vocals by Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, and Tito Jackson
• Background vocals by Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jackie Jackson, and Marlon Jackson
• Co-lead by Jermaine Jackson, Tito Jackson, and Marlon Jackson
• Keyboards by Freddie Perren
• Guitar by David T. Walker, Louis Shelton and Don Peake
• Bass guitar by Wilton Felder
• Drums by Gene Pello
• Side vocals by Marlon Jackson, Tito Jackson, and Jackie Jackson.

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