The Jackson 5
Joyful Jukebox Music (Motown) 1976
by Wax Poetics
Joyful is another greed-motivated Motown record, compiled from Skywriter and Get It Together outtakes and rushed out before the J5 released anything on Epic. Fonze Mizell tickles the keyboards and makes it worth seeking out. The Brothers M provide pop perfection with the frenzied, shadowy “Love,” with deft vocal interplay between Michael and Jermaine. Don’t sleep on the stony cover of the Whitfield/Gaye tune “Pride and Joy.”







