Album Summary

Dancing Machine is the ninth studio album released by the Motown quintet The Jackson 5, on September 5, 1974. The album's title track was a No. 2 pop hit and a No. 1 R&B hit in the United States. The group released two additional singles from the album, Whatever You Got, I Want and the group's last US Top 20 hit for Motown, I Am Love.

Although the Jacksons were back on the charts, the brothers, most notably Michael, still complained about their artistic direction. Nonetheless, the album became another disco concept album for the group, and showcased lead singers Michael and Jermaine Jackson. This album was the first on which all the brothers sang in their natural voices on the same song, entitled It All Begins And Ends With Love. Around this time, the Jacksons were performing in Las Vegas with the rest of the family, leaving this album with low promotion. According to an interview with Don Cornelius on the R&B TV show Soul Train, Michael said that If I Don't Love You This Way and What You Don't Know were his favorite songs. A longer version of the title song, Dancing Machine, had previously been included on the groups 1973 album Get It Together.

In 2001, Motown Records remastered all Jackson 5 albums in a Two Classic Albums / One CD series. Dancing Machine was paired up with Moving Violation

Singles released from the album are Dancing Machine, The Life Of The Party, I Am Love, and Whatever You Got, I Want.