Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah/Nobody/I Want You Back/Can You Remember/Standing In The Shadows Of Love/You’ve Changed/My Cherie Amour/Who’s Lovin’ You/Chained/(I Know) I’m Losing You/Stand/Born To Love You
Debut album from Motown’s youthful Jackson 5, whose lead singer would become a mega star during the last two decades of the 20th Century. Diana Ross Presents includes the Grammy winning US No. 1, and UK No. 2, hit single I Want You Back. Whisper it quietly but many of Michael Jackson’s best tunes were recorded with his brothers during this early period. (US:5 UK:16)
“The Jackson 5 exploded on to the music scene in late 1969 with one of the greatest singles of all time, I Want You Back. The song is as perfect a three minute single as you could record.”
“The band does their mentor proud with a stellar debut mostly made up of cover tunes that show off the brothers’ picture perfect vocals. I Want You Back is the centrepiece of the album and the song shot to number one on the charts. Their cover of The Miracles' Who's Lovin' You shows off young Michael's impressive vocal skills while their take on Stevie Wonder's My Cherie Amour allows Jermaine to shine.”
“The majority of the songs on this album were uninteresting and same-y. It was a struggle to get through the entire record. I Want You Back is a fantastic song and I also didn't mind Chained and My Cherie Amour but this album just felt manufactured and soulless.”
“How on earth was Motown able to make a pop album by a bunch of little kids so good? Or perhaps the question should be if these kids could do it then why aren't there more kiddie pop albums this good?”
“An impressive debut album, made doubly so by the fact that the lead singer of The Jackson 5 is an eleven-year-old kid. Diana Ross Presents is arguably the best of the J5 LPs. It's certainly the most digestible, since Berry Gordy hadn't yet pushed the Jackson brothers into bubblegum territory.”
“Michael does some pretty impressive vocal stunts here, most notably the impressive octave scale descent on the opening track Zip A Dee Doo Dah. Of course it falters in places, but in general its a good start for Michael Jackson and his band.”
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