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Saturday Night Music, June 27: Michael Jackson, “Get It Together,” with the Jackson Five on “Soul Train,” 1973

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Tags: "Corner of the Sky", "Looking Through the Windows", "Never Can Say Goodbye", "Soul Train", Berry Gordy, Billboard, Bubblegum Soul, CBS, Clifton Davis, Dancing Machine, Disco, Growing Up, Hal Davis, Mainstream, Melba Moore, Michael Jackson, Norman Whitfield, Pop, R&B, The Jackson 5, The Jackson 5ive, The Jackson Five, The Robot, The Seventies, The Sixties


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