On this day in music history: September 25, 1980 - Triumph, the thirteenth album by The Jacksons is released. Produced by The Jacksons, it is recorded at Capitol Studios, Hollywood Sound, Davlen Sound, Devonshire Sound, Westlake Audio in Hollywood, CA, and Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, CA from June 1979 - June 1980. Even before the release of his landmark album Off The Wall, Michael Jackson will reunite with his brothers in the Summer of 1979 to begin work on the follow up to the Platinum selling Destiny. With the huge success of that album, the group will take full creative control of the new project, handling the production chores and writing all nine of the new albums songs themselves. The group will be supported by a team of top notch studio musicians, many of whom have played on the previous album including Michael Sembello, David Williams, Phil Upchurch, Paul Jackson, Jr. (guitars), Nathan Watts, Mike McKinney (bass), Ollie E. Brown (drums), Paulinho DaCosta (percussion), and The Seawind Horns (Jerry Hey, Kim Hutchcroft, Bill Reichenbach, and Larry Hall). It will be a major critical and commercial success upon its release, and is regarded as one of The Jacksons best efforts. It will spin off four singles including Lovely One (#2 R&B, #12 Pop, #1 Club Play), Heartbreak Hotel (later re-titled This Place Hotel on later pressings) (#2 R&B, #22 Pop), Can You Feel It (#30 R&B, #77 Pop, #1 Club Play), and Walk Right Now (#50 R&B, #73 Pop, #5 Club Play). The Jacksons will also support the album with an extensive tour in 1981 that is recorded for the live album Jacksons Live!, released in November of 1981. Triumph is remastered and reissued on CD in late 2008 (exclusively through Circuit City, before going into wide release in January of 2009) with three bonus tracks. Triumph will spend two weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B album chart (becoming their first chart topping album since Maybe Tomorrow in 1971), peaking at number ten on the Top 200, and is certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA.
Posted on: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 00:00:05 +0000
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