Song performed by The Jackson 5
"Give Love on Christmas Day " is a Christmas song first recorded by Motown Records ' family quintet the Jackson 5 . Written by the label's songwriting-producing team, The Corporation (Berry Gordy , Alphonzo Mizell , Christine Perren, Freddie Perren and Deke Richards ),[ 1] Jackson 5 Christmas Album The Temptations , Yolanda Adams , Ledisi , New Edition , BlackGirl , and solo artists such as Coko (and her group SWV ), and Johnny Gill .
Production
"Give Love on Christmas Day" was written by the Motown Records' producing-writing team known as "The Corporation ". The Jacksons' hit singles such as "I Want You Back ", "ABC " and "The Love You Save " had been written by the Motown team months earlier, and had aided the five brothers in becoming the first black teen idols.[ 2] The Jackson 5 Christmas Album , released in 1970. Other songs on the album included "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ", "Up on the Housetop ", "Frosty the Snowman ", "The Christmas Song ", "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " and "Christmas Won't Be the Same This Year".[ 3]
Release and reception
In 1986, the song gained release as a CD single in the United States, in order to promote the release of the first CD version of The Jackson 5 Christmas Album .[ 4]
In a review of Jackson 5 Christmas Album , Lynn Norment of the African American -orientated magazine Ebony Michael Jackson 's vocals on the track—along with the songs "The Little Drummer Boy ", "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town " and "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus "—as sounding "angelic".[ 5] Billboard [ 6]
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