Lookin' Through The Windows - JACKSON 5***

Ain't Nothing Like The Real Thing/Lookin' Through The Windows/Don't Let Your Baby Catch You/To Know/ Doctor My Eyes/Little Bitty Pretty One/E-Ne-Me-Ne-Mi-Ne-Moe (The Choice Is Yours To Pull)/If I Have To Move A Mountain/Don't Want To See You Tomorrow/Children Of The Light/I Can Only Give You Love

The Jackson 5 maintained the high frequency of their album releases with Lookin’ Through The Windows. However, this would be the last to feature Michael Jackson as a child singer. Includes the US top 20 singles Little Bitty Pretty One and the title track, the latter reaching No. 9 in the UK. (US:7 UK:16)

“It's what you might expect from a Motown album, a few well done covers with the hit singles thrown in for good measure. The Jackson 5 weren't really aimed at the album buying market, but that doesn't really mean that the quality suffered as a result.”

“Michael's voice was on the verge of breaking and these recordings amount to the last recordings of him with his childish voice. Don't be put off by that, though, because he was a special case with an extremely soulful and passionate voice, despite his tender years.”

“All in all, most of the songs are in a similar style to each other and it flows nicely into a solid album. There has definitely been some progress made from their first four albums, which had tended to rely on the youth of the group, whereas the later recording were geared toward honing the style of The Jacksons.”

"Children Of The Light is where the J5 meet the Partridge Family, stylistically speaking. This is typical of the shiny happy people early 70s poppy upbeat peace and love songs, that those from the era would have heard on AM radio before going to school, or in the background music of a teenage Saturday morning cartoon.”

“Lookin' Through The Windows was the last top ten album by the band for Motown and it showed a maturation in the band's sound. Michael's voice was changing, so the teenybopper angle that some previous songs took no longer fits.”

“Though the songs on Lookin' Through The Windows were a bit more serious than those that made them stars two years earlier, The Jackson 5 were still frustrated with the soon to be dated songs that were being fed to them. Despite this, it was still a decent album with many of the songs accommodating themselves well to Michael's slightly changing voice.”