Talk:I Want You Back

A fact from I Want You Back appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 6 April 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that "I Want You Back", the 1969 debut single by The Jackson 5, was originally intended for both Gladys Knight & the Pips and Diana Ross, and has been sampled by Blackstreet, Jay-Z, and Lil' Romeo?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/April.

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Cleopatra

Why is so much space devoted to one of the less distinguished covers of this song? Many more interesting covers (Lake Street Dive's street corner performance debut, the version cut from Glee_(TV_series), etc. There are too many covers to cover, so best include none, or point to a separate article with a list. Jds13 (talk) 01:30, 27 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Wilton Felder

It's interesting to discover that Wilton Felder played the bass but who made up the bass line? If it was arranged by the Corporation it must have been on of them, right?

Influence?

Did the song "I want you back" have any social, political, or economical influence in it; was it influenced by (or was it influencial in) society, politics, or the economy?

No...it's simply an accessible, bubblegum pop record sung by a kid group. For Motown songs that had social, political, or economical influence, look at the work of Norman Whitfield and the acts he produced (The Temptations, The Undisputed Truth, Edwin Starr). --FuriousFreddy 23:22, 31 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I Want You Back (Corey Hart song)

Hey, to the one who edited the original "I Want You Back" page to make it a page about Corey Hart's different version, please do the song under this title: "I Want You Back (Corey Hart song)" so there won't be no difficulties. The song was recorded in different versions under the same title by other artists and since the Jacksons' first version was the one people know. I think it's safe to create a new page just for Corey's song alone. Thanks. -- BrothaTimothy

Actually, no; any information on any cover of the Gordy/Mizell/Perren/Richards composition "I Want YOu Back" should be in this article and this article alone. We had a huge issue last year with fans writing seperate articles on different cover versions of songs. --FuriousFreddy 15:41, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was surprised to see that the article doesn't mention the "Z-Trip Remix" version of the song, which is fascinating in that it exposes some of the individual instrumental tracks (especially the extraordinary guitar line at the beginning). Are remixes outside the scope of "song" articles? They shouldn't be. --Anon

Lyrics

Should anything about the song's lyrics be mentioned in the article?

Reversion unwarranted

Please discuss the specific issues you have with my recent changes. As the edit summary indicated, what I did was "organize into sections, cut back on peacock terms, annotate external links"--none of which qualifies as "unconstructive" as you said on my talk page. 72.244.200.36 (talk) 20:08, 18 May 2008 (UTC). this is the greatest song ever made hands down no argument —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.93.227.64 (talk) 17:18, 7 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Instrumental Cover Version

"The Wild Bunch" (1970, J-Dan, 1970. (as Dandy & The Music Doctors)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=4DP9uAg5u2M

http://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Dandy_Livingstone

DutchSeduction (talk) 12:29, 28 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Joe'Nika

where did that live at when that was kid's —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.28.219.191 (talk) 17:51, 25 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

The "I Want You Back" single by "The Jackson Five", is a 1969 song by the Jackson Five (introduction says Jackson 5) released before the album "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5" (infobox has the song coming "from the album"). Motown signed The Jackson Five not the The Jackson 5 in March 1969. The 1968 titled song in infobox, source [3], is a Steeltown label song by "The Jackson Five", not a Motown label song (infobox has one label, "Label-Motown"). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.165.84.140 (talk) 00:48, 22 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 25 October 2018

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: not moved (page mover nac) Flooded with them hundreds 08:03, 9 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

– There are five other songs of the same title "I Want You Back", two songs called "Want You Back", and the Cher Lloyd song "Want U Back". Considering all the similarly titled songs since this song's release, this page should no longer be the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. JE98 (talk) 22:26, 25 October 2018 (UTC)--Relisting. –Ammarpad (talk) 08:59, 2 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Question: Have you checked the page views? The Jackson 5 song was huge. —BarrelProof (talk) 23:58, 25 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Neutral strictly on page views not a good case for moving. There are very few entertainment products that really justify WP:PT, as (The Jackson 5 song) here would help all readers. But helping readers is not our only priority. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:05, 27 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Existence does not equate notability. Unreal7 (talk) 10:21, 29 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. A clear primary topic. Station1 (talk) 00:17, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Appears to be primary topic. According to the article, the Jackson 5 song has sold 6 million copies, was ranked #121 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and is considered one of the most sampled songs in hip hop music. Nothing else in the disambiguation page comes close. — Newslinger talk 00:59, 4 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Johnny Jackson and Ronnie Rancifer

The personnel list has unreferenced claims of these musicians, maintenance tags are three years old. Having said that, I'm gonna go ahead and delete them for now, until reliable sources are found stating that they played on the song.--2601:153:881:3D60:989C:476D:B562:7A0E (talk) 20:30, 24 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sources for personnel credits

I personally think that, instead of repeating the same citations throughout the list for each of the musicians, it probably would be better to just say "Credits adapted from Michael Jackson All The Songs and AllMusic" as the list itself would look cleaner/tidier and be easier to read, so I'm gonna go ahead and do that.--2601:153:881:3D60:5C85:97F1:B82C:960B (talk) 20:44, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]