Dancing Machine

"Dancing Machine"
Single by The Jackson 5
from the album G.I.T.: Get It Together and Dancing Machine
Released	February 3, 1974
Format	7" single
Recorded	April - May 1973 Hitsville West, Los Angeles
Genre	Funk, disco
Length	3:30 (album version) 2:43 (single version) 4:25 (alternate version)
Label	Motown M 1286
Writer(s)	Hal Davis Don Fletcher Dean Parks
Producer	Hal Davis
The Jackson 5 singles chronology
"Get It Together" (1973) "Dancing Machine" (1974) "Whatever You Got I Want" (1974)

"Dancing Machine" is a 1973 song recorded by The Jackson 5, released as a single in 1974. The group's first US Top Ten hit since 1971's "Sugar Daddy", "Dancing Machine" reached number two on the Billboard pop music charts in May 1974, and number one on the R&B charts.^[1] It bought The Jackson 5 their second Grammy Award nomination in 1975 for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, losing to Rufus and Chaka Khan's "Tell Me Something Good".

Background

The song, which sold over three million copies,^[2] popularized the physically complicated Robot dance technique, devised by Charles Washington in the late 1960s. Michael Jackson first performed the dance on television while singing "Dancing Machine" with the Jackson 5 on an episode of Soul Train.

"Dancing Machine", originally recorded for the group's 1973 album G.I.T.: Get It Together, was also the title track of their 1974 album Dancing Machine released in 1974 as a remix for a response to the success of the single.

Cover versions

• "Dancing Machine" was covered by Suburban Legends on their Japan-only EP, Dance Like Nobody's Watching: Tokyo Nights.

The song was most notably sampled by MC Hammer on his 1990 album Please Hammer, Don't Hurt 'Em (for the song "Dancin' Machine"), again in 1990 by Vanilla Ice on the album To The Extreme, later on by Too $hort (featuring Bun B) on the song "Shout It Out", and more recently in 2008 by Q-tip on the album The Renaissance ("Move") and Yung Wun for his song "Tear It Up" on his album The Dirtiest Thirstiest (in which the sample was uncredited).

• An alternate longer version (4:25) appears on the "Jackson 5 - I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters" released in 2009.

• A remix by Polow da Don was featured in a commercial for Svedka.

Personnel

• Lead vocals by Michael Jackson and Jermaine Jackson
• Background vocals by Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jackie Jackson and Marlon Jackson.
• Instrumentation by assorted Los Angeles musicians including James Gadson and Charles Wright

Notes

1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 287. 
2. ^ Sales statistics for Jackson 5 singles. Retrieved March 17, 2008

Preceded by "The Payback (Part 1)" by James Brown

Billboard Hot Soul Singles number one single May 11, 1974

Succeeded by "I'm in Love" by Aretha Franklin

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