The Miracles Recorded This In 1960. The Jackson 5 Made The World Forget In 1969.

In 1969, five brothers from Gary, Indiana walked into Motown Records — and Berry Gordy stopped everything. He'd never seen anything like it. An eleven-year-old boy with a voice that sounded like it had been crying for thirty years. And Berry Gordy did what he always did when he found a new obsession. He threw the entire label at them. Songs written for The Supremes. Songs meant for Gladys Knight. A number from the hottest musical on Broadway. Classics built by Motown writers who never got their moment in the spotlight. All of it — redirected to five children from Indiana. The Jackson 5 didn't steal anything. They were kids. They sang what Berry Gordy put in front of them. The real story happened in the boardroom. And the artists who got bumped? Most of them never fully recovered. Today we're counting down 10 songs Motown took from other artists and handed to the Jackson 5. Every fact is verified. Every original is documented. And every recording — both the original AND the Jackson 5 version — is on YouTube right now. Subscribe for more music history that deserves to be heard. Drop a comment — which of these original artists deserved better? #Jackson5 #Motown #BerryGordy #MichaelJackson #MichaelJacksonJr #GladysKnight #SmokeyRobinson #TheSupremes #TheTemptations #WillieHutch #CliftonDavis #IWantYouBack #IllBeThere #NeverCanSayGoodbye #MotownHistory #BlackMusicHistory #StolenSongs #MusicHistory #60sRnB #70sRnB #SoulMusic #ClassicMotown #MotownSecrets #RnBHistory #HitvilleUSA #GaryIndiana #MotownMachine #Songwriters #UntoldStory #MusicIndustry