G.I.T.: Get It Together
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| Studio album by The Jackson 5 | ||||
| Released | September 21, 1973 | |||
| Genre | Soul, funk, disco, R&B | |||
| Length | 36:07 | |||
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Motown M78V1 |
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| Producer | Hal Davis and Norman Whitfield | |||
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| Singles from G.I.T.: Get It Together | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    |
| Rolling Stone | (favorable) |
G.I.T.: Get It Together (a.k.a. Get It Together) is the tenth studio album by The Jackson 5, released in September 1973 for the Motown label.
During the group's last years with Motown, the label struggled to come up with material for the group. As a result, the Jackson 5 fell into a period from 1973 to 1974 where they scored no Top 10 singles. By this point, most of the Jackson 5's members, and their manager/father Joseph Jackson, were vocally complaining about the group's direction, with Michael Jackson becoming the most vocal. The only member not to complain about Motown's handling of the act was Jermaine Jackson, who would marry Motown head Berry Gordy's daughter Hazel three months after the release of the album. G.I.T.: Get It Together would go on to sell over two million copies worldwide.
The album was arranged by Arthur G. Wright, David Blumberg and James Anthony Carmichael.
G.I.T.: Get It Together was the first album to feature Michael's noticeable growth spurt. Now aged 15 and with a slightly deeper singing voice, the overall sound of the group changed as well. With Michael now a full-fledged tenor. It was also on this album that he first employed what would later be known as his "vocal hiccup", notably on the song "It's Too Late to Change the Time". As Motown frowned on any sort of control being relinquished to the group, Michael semi-retired the hiccup until his solo career at Epic Records began in earnest with Off the Wall.
Get It Together was one of the earliest albums to experiment with a pre-disco sound, released at a time before the genre was mainstream. The album was a breakaway from the group's bubblegum soul sound as they came up with a more funk-oriented album similar to The Temptations' Norman Whitfield-produced albums. Two of Whitfield's Temptations songs — "You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)" and "Hum Along and Dance"— appeared on Get It Together.
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