Before Michael and the Jacksons there was Little Dion

[Laidbackman]

And The Jackson 5 had been performing since '64 when Dion was 3 years old. Released 2 singles in '67, THEN went to Motown in '68.​

I was taking about mainstream.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I was taking about mainstream.

Gotcha.​

 

[Laidbackman]

Gotcha.​

Actually it was 1969, when the Jackson Five debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. They also made the afro hairstyle mainstream, however we called it the bush at first. I still do. A lot of us called it the MJ later on.

 

[Laidbackman]

This dude must of had bad management or a bad team around him

I hear you, because I don't remember him. If I did, I forgot. But I remember Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five when they debuted. We haven't stopped hearing about the Jackson Five since.

 

[Laidbackman]

It’s crazy watching Mike here, he was a absolute anomaly probably one of the few kids his age worldwide that could move like that, but today millions of kids even younger than him would blow this out the water. The internet has made the world smaller and people are becoming more skilled and coordinated than in the past. We see this in basketball as well.I don’t say this to shyt on Mike because if he had access to the same tech today he would blow them out the water

You got me remembering when I thought Carlton (Alfonso Ribeiro) when he was a child, did the moonwalk better than Michael, on that Pepsi Commercial with him and the Jacksons. That's why I thought he was going to be more famous than Will Smith when he was on "Fresh Prince", when people still had mixed feelings about rap, and you could hardly get a classy girl if you listened to it. She had to be a hoodrat, or a borderline hoodrat.

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Hell of a gem you found OP

 

[KidJSoul]

He should have been famous but he ain’t touching young Mike with a ten foot pole

After watching the video in the op, yes, I agree. His vocals were to kiddish and unrefined, even if everything else was there.

Kid MJ was a natural singer

 

[FeverPitch2]

It’s crazy watching Mike here, he was a absolute anomaly probably one of the few kids his age worldwide that could move like that, but today millions of kids even younger than him would blow this out the water. The internet has made the world smaller and people are becoming more skilled and coordinated than in the past. We see this in basketball as well.I don’t say this to shyt on Mike because if he had access to the same tech today he would blow them out the water

I see what you gettin at but......where dey at?
Drawing up the blueprint vs. studying the blueprint.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Actually it was 1969, when the Jackson Five debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. They also made the afro hairstyle mainstream, however we called it the bush at first. I still do. A lot of us called it the MJ later on.

Some credit Sam Cooke for bringing the afro mainstream

 

[Laidbackman]

Some credit Sam Cooke for bringing the afro mainstream

Maybe he did, but when I say mainstream, I mean when everybody Black, including male, female, child and adult, and all Black vocalist tried to grow one. It didn't fade all the way out until the late 70's. The Jackson Five had the largest influence because all five off them had one. Btw, I don't remember Sam Cooke wearing an afro. He probably wore his hair natural, while the rest of the singers wore a perm.

 

[Laidbackman]

Some credit Sam Cooke for bringing the afro mainstream

Maybe he did, but when I say mainstream, I mean when everybody Black, including male, female, child and adult, and all Black vocalist tried to grow one. It didn't fade out until the late 70's. The Jackson Five started it because all five off them had one. Btw, I don't remember Sam Cooke wearing an afro. He probably wore it natural, when a lot of Black men were still wearing their hair straight.

Edit: Now that you bought this up, the Jackson Five actually modified the bush, and it took off in the 70's. when we tried to grow it as large as we could, like Jackie Jackson. That's when people started calling it the afro and the bush interchangeably. To give credit to what you said, I almost forgot, but before the Jackson Five, when we were calling it the bush, we use to comb our hair from the bottom, and straight up, then round it towards the top. I think that's were the name bush came from, just like the way you would trim a real bush, from the bottom up, then round it at the top. I completely forgot about that. Some girl who was a troll from another site, argued this with me. She was so bad, they had to ban her. But she was actually half way right on this one. But her hard head tried to tell me we never called it the bush. She was probably taking it as sounding sexually explecative. I had to upload a video of the 68' Dr. King Riots in my old DC neighborhood, to show her nobody was wearing the afro as we knew it in the 70's. She tired to tell me everybody was wearing it like that since 66'. If they wasn't wearing the afro in Chocolate City in 68', then they wasn't wearing it like that in no other city yet, until the Jackson Five debuted in 69'. And that was late 69', which mean the hairstyle really took off in 1970. But that hardheaded sister still came back a month later, saying she was right. I think that's when they had enough, and banned her for a week. She got mad and never returned.

 

[Laidbackman]

Speaking of the bush, the fade was practically the modern day bush from the 60's right before the Jackson Five. Not saying he was the first, but James Brown was the first one I remember wearing the bush.

Come to think of it, even Michael Jackson below wore his hair like this, before they went mainstream. I remember all of us when we were children, trying to wear our hair like that. And like I said, it was called the bush. But it was still hard to grow, especially at the top. And a lot of us struggled even harder when it changed into the afro and bush in the 70's. I didn't know this until a few years ago, but I heard a lot of those R&B groups wearing those large afros from the 70's, were really wearing wigs...even some of the Jacksons did later on. I heard some of the sisters singing in the 70's were wearing wigs too, including Diana Ross, and the Supremes.

 

[CodeKansas]

Got the Partridge Family killin' it behind him too

Honing their skills in the church or chitlin circuit used to pay off

Too bad they don’t do that shyt now

nikkas out here constantly shytting on the church and simultaneously wondering where RNB artists went.

 

[CodeKansas]

double post

 

[Sbp]

This is him now. He lives in Oakland

Spoiler

Great pic of him and the wife. He looks like he can still give a show too.