And to my knowledge no published account has ever mentioned that “Big Boy” was cut in Chicago. The 1992 miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream fictionalizes the session, placing it in 1966 and pretending, probably for licensing reasons, that the Jacksons recorded a cover of “Kansas City.” Even Michael’s 1988 autobiography, Moonwalk, gets most of the details wrong-not surprising given that he was nine at the time. But most of the rest of the information out there is flawed or incomplete. Though every last recording by Elvis and the Beatles-the only other pop stars of Jackson’s magnitude-has been meticulously documented, not even the most obsessive collectors have the whole story behind “Big Boy,” the Jackson Five’s first single.ĭie-hard fans know it was recorded in late 1967 and released early in ’68 on Gary’s Steeltown Records. When the world paused this summer to look back on Michael Jackson’s extraordinary career, one chapter was missing from all the retrospectives, which skipped straight from the Jackson Five’s formation in Gary, Indiana, to their explosive rise to stardom on Motown Records.
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