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The Love You Save

Field	Value
name	The Love You Save
image	The love you save by jackson 5 UK vinyl solid centre.webp
alt	side-A label
caption	Solid center variant of the UK single
type	single
artist	the Jackson 5
album	ABC
B-side	I Found That Girl
released	May 13, 1970
recorded	March 1970
studio	Hitsville West, (Los Angeles)
genre	Bubblegum-soul
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length	3:00
label	Motown
writer	The Corporation
producer	The Corporation
prev_title	ABC
prev_year	1970
next_title	I'll Be There
next_year	1970

| B-side = I Found That Girl "The Love You Save" is a song recorded by the Jackson 5 for Motown Records. It was released as a single on May 13, 1970, and held the number-one spot on the soul singles chart in the US for six weeks and the number-one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from June 27 to July 4, 1970 and sold over 2 million copies in the United States. In the UK top 40 chart, it peaked at number 7 in August 1970. The song is the third of the four-in-a-row Jackson 5 number-ones released (the others were "I Want You Back", "ABC" and "I'll Be There"). Billboard ranked the record as the No. 16 song of 1970, one place behind the Jackson 5's "ABC".

Description

"The Love You Save" features side vocals of Jermaine Jackson singing alongside Michael in the final "Stop! The love you save may be your own", beside Marlon, Tito and Jackie. The song's lyrics feature Michael and Jermaine warning a "fast" girl to slow down and "stop!", because "the love you save may be your own!" The lyrics are also unusual because of the historical references—according to the song, the girl in question was under the apple tree with "Isaac" (a reference to Isaac Newton); felt electricity with "Benjie" (a reference to Benjamin Franklin); "Alexander" (a reference to Alexander Graham Bell) called her and "rang her chimes"; and "Christopher" (a reference to Christopher Columbus) "discovered" that she was "way ahead of her time".

Bobby Taylor, who produced the Jackson 5's first album at Motown and was lead singer of Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, discovered the Jackson 5 and brought them to Berry Gordy's attention. Taylor had shepherded them through their first couple of hits in L.A., but Gordy (according to Taylor) felt the material was too adult given the age of the performers, and like the remainder of the early Jackson 5 hits, "The Love You Save" was written and produced back in Detroit by the Corporation, a team comprising Motown chief Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, and Deke Richards, and recorded in Los Angeles, 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. Record World called it "another big one."

The song was covered by 90s American pop rock band Hanson on their demo album, Boomerang.

The song was remixed by DJ Cassidy for the 2009 release The Remix Suite.

Personnel

Lead vocals by Michael Jackson and Jermaine Jackson
Background vocals by Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Tito Jackson and Jackie Jackson
Instrumentation by Los Angeles area session musicians
- Freddie Perren – keyboards
- David T. Walker – guitar
- Louis Shelton – guitar
- Don Peake – guitar
- Wilton Felder – bass guitar
- Gene Pello – drums

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1970)	Peak
position
Australia Kent Music Report	59
Canada RPM Top Singles	8
UK Singles Chart	7
U.S. Billboard Hot 100	1
U.S. Billboard R&B	1
U.S. Cash Box Top 100	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1970)	Position
U.S. Billboard	16
U.S. Cash Box	12

References

"The Jackson 5 | Biography & History".
Whitburn, Joel. (2004). "Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004". Record Research.
Johnson, April. (2023-03-17). "10 Best The Jackson 5 Songs Of All Time - Singersroom.com".
[[Billboard Year-End Hot 100 singles of 1970]]
Gest, David. "Michael Jackson: The Life Of An Icon".
(May 30, 1970). "Single Picks of the Week".
(2018). "Michael Jackson All The Songs". Cassell.
[http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=35092 australian-charts.com - Forum - 1970 (ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts)]
(1970-07-18). "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada".
[http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/13914/jackson-5/ JACKSON 5. full Official Chart History. Official Charts Company]
[http://www.musicoutfitters.com/topsongs/1970.htm Top 100 Hits of 1970/Top 100 Songs of 1970]
[http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/70s_files/1970YESP.html Cash Box YE Pop Singles – 1970]

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