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“The Love You Save” is a 1970 number-one hit single recorded by The Jackson 5 for the Motown label. It held the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from June 27 to July 4, 1970, replacing “The Long and Winding Road” by The Beatles, and replaced by “Mama Told Me (Not To Come)” by Three Dog Night. It is the third of four Jackson 5 number-ones released in a row (the others are “I Want You Back”, “ABC”, and “I’ll Be There”). “The Love You Save” also features side vocals of Jackie Jackson singing along-side Michael in the final “Stop! The love you save may be your own.” besides Marlon and Tito.

While “The Love You Save” is the least-known of the four Jackson 5 number-ones, it has one of the most distinctive melodies and is the most musically complex of the four singles. The song’s lyrics feature Michael and Jermaine Jackson warning a “fast” girl to slow down and “stop!” because “the love you save may be your own!”

The opening exclamation of “stop” and the footstomps that complement the rhythm during the latter part of the song are allusions to the 1965 number-one Motown single by The Supremes, “Stop! In the Name of Love”. The Jackson 5 essentially replaced The Supremes as Motown’s main focus in the early 1970s, although Diana Ross, who left the group for a solo career not long before the release of this single, was publicized as having discovered the Jackson 5.

Like most of the other early Jackson 5 hits, “The Love You Save” was written and produced by The Corporation, a team composed of Motown chief Berry Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, and Deke Richards and recorded in Los Angeles, California, away from the old Motown studio at Hitsville USA in Detroit, Michigan.
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  • dpbaul

    So if this rang true for women then.... why do women NOW think things have changed? Seriously.... MJ as a kid got it.... Ladies, get with it...

    January 2012

  • linzi76

    ☆☆☆☆☆

    January 2012

  • LeeLand13

    i like this song

    December 2011

  • tarikfiner

    Look both ways!!

    September 2011

  • straw4uberry

    "Darling take it slow or one day you'll be all alone"

    June 2011

  • mightykendar

    Incredible song.

    June 2011

  • WarrenJudkins

    As great as ABC and I Want You Back are.. The Love You Save is the best of their upbeat songs.. it's too bad it takes a backseat to those two.

    April 2011

  • MimiJak1

    Momento Nostalgia!!! Bommmm!!!!

    April 2011

  • amilton2

    <3

    April 2011

  • B-Dawk20

    I remember listening to this song all day when I was a kid <3

    March 2011

  • YukiInTokyo

    Love it!!!

    March 2011

  • oOChildhoodOo

    You better stop the love you save may be your own! <3

    March 2011

  • halenarella

    I'm the one who loves you! I'm the one you need!

    February 2011

  • jay516

    stop!!! your headed to a danger zone.

    January 2011

  • poppa7

    CLASSIC!~~!!! 4 EVER!!!

    December 2010

  • pupaboy

    Justin Bieber can't compare to Michael Jackson no matter what age...

    December 2010

  • marcusoul

    O inicio de tudo!

    October 2010

  • daisy757

    love it

    October 2010

  • PattyCakes7

    S is for Saving T is for Take it slow O is for Oh no P is for Please Please don't go! God, The Jacksons are so freaking Talented, I think they're the most talented Family in the WORLD, & Michael, wow, He's something special, He's Magic!

    October 2010

  • broncodevil

    .......and the jackson 5 sing..........

    September 2010
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