Jackobious | A Timeless Michael Jackson Mix

Michael Jackson's music lives in every second of the minute of the hour.

Timeless is he.

Timeless is his music.

Jackobious by yasboogie

Tracklist

01. The ARE + Dem Damb Jacksons - Intro

02. AFTA-1 + Cazeaux OSLO - Marvelous Magical Jackobious Son (A Sweaterless Suite) (A Reinterpretation of "Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough" + "PYT")

03. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough (Demo)

04. Michael Jackson - Working Day And Night (Demo)

05. Michael Jackson - Starlight (Thriller Demo)

06. Michael Jackson - Baby Be Mine (Demo)

07. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (Home Demo)

08. The Jacksons - Give It Up

09. VA - You Can't Win f. Michael Jackson + (Crows) Derrick Bell, Kashka Banjoko, Roderick-Spencer Sibert + Ronald 'Smokey' Stevens

10. Jackson Five - Don't Let Your Baby Catch You

11. Michael Jackson - Ain't No Sunshine

12. Michael Jackson - Everybody's Somebody's Fool

13. The Jacksons - This Place Hotel AKA Heartbreak Hotel

14. VA - Human Nature f. Marcela Mangabeira

15. Michael Jackson - People Make The World Go Round

16. Jackson Five - Lookin' Through The Windows

17. Michael Jackson - Up Again

18. Michael Jackson - Maria (You Were The Only One)

19. VA - I Can't Help It f. Deco Fiori

20. The ARE + Dem Damb Jacksons - ARE Outro

*This is the fir(1)st of many mixes to come.

How Michael Jackson Saved Sesame Street

For all of the musical parodies that Sesame Street produced, very few of them resembled the original song enough to warrant legal action.
 

In the early 1980s, the Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) was sued for $5.5 million by the Northern Songs, owners of the Beatles catalogue, who said the song “Letter B”, performed by the Sesame Street Beetles, had the unfortunate distinction of being too similar to the original “Let It Be.”

More after the jump…

Never Change One Single Grain of Sand

David Ruffin: Common Man
From: Single (Motown, 1973)

David Ruffin: Let Somebody Love Me
From: David (Shelved in 1971) (Hip-O Select, 2004)

The Temptations (1998) (TV)
My favorite quote:
"Ain't nobody comin' to see you, Otis! You wish you could work it the way I do, but you can't! Because there is only one David Ruffin. And without him, the Temps ain't nothin' but a group in SEARCH of a David Ruffin."

According to Otis Williams, David (actual name Davis Eli; also known as David Bush) Ruffin, born in Whynot, Mississippi as the youngest of three sons born to Opheila and Eli Ruffin , (playfully nicknamed "Ruff" by the group) was initially a natural comedian and a hard-working singer when he first joined the group. Ruffin's most notable non-vocal contribution to the Temptations was the masterminding of their trademark four-headed microphone stand.
By 1967, however, ego problems with Ruffin became an issue for the Temptations. Ruffin became addicted to cocaine, and began regularly missing group meetings, rehearsals, and performances. Refusing to travel with the other Temptations, Ruffin and his then-girlfriend Tammi Terrell traveled in a custom limo (with the image of his trademark black rimmed glasses painted on the door, no less). After The Supremes had their name changed to Diana Ross & the Supremes in early 1967, Ruffin felt that he should become the focal point of the Temptations, just as Diana Ross was for her group, and began demanding that the group name be changed to "David Ruffin & the Temptations." This led to a number of fights between Ruffin and the group's de facto leader, Otis Williams, who insists that he gave Ruffin fair warning that if he did not change his attitude, he would be fired. What is also seldom mentioned is that, in addition to the group's problems with David's ego, he was one of the first Motown artists to question where the money was going, and so Ruffin was also demanding an accounting of the group's money. This also caused friction between Ruffin and Gordy.
David Ruffin died of a drug overdose on June 1, 1991 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of 50. Contrary to what Temptation Otis Williams claimed in his autobiography (later adapted into the Temptations television miniseries), Ruffin's body was not randomly found in the middle of the street, nor did it lie unclaimed in a morgue for over a week. Instead, Ruffin's chauffeur drove him to the hospital, identifying him as "David Ruffin of the Temptations". A few days later, Ruffin's children claimed his body.
Ruffin was portrayed by actor Leon Robinson in the 1998 television miniseries The Temptations. Leon won high praise for his portrayal of Ruffin, but Ruffin's family was upset by the way the miniseries portrayed Ruffin, and filed a lawsuit against the producers of the miniseries and also Otis Williams, whose memoirs had been the source material for the miniseries. The case was dismissed in favor of the defendants, with Williams later claiming that he had no control over the presentation of the material.
When Ruffin died in June of 1991, Michael Jackson partially covered some of his funeral expenses, at which Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder performed.

*Thank 2 Liter for the vid
*Other than Steve Arrington Ruff wears the illest textured afro
*David's Let Somebody Love Me was chosen to illustrate Ruff's uncommon man (exceptional) voice
*Lastly, I think Ruff could have placed second after Rick James for the "Habitual Line-Stepper" award