Raymond, who led his church choir at 8, auditioned on camera in Los Angeles, singing "I Want You Back, " ''Loving You" and "I'll Be There.
As if reminding itself to perk up, "Airplanes" quickly self-corrects into a jaunty wonder, as its pleading chorus ("I want you back") hurtles along with something resembling school spirit.
The Jacksons - featuring Tito, Marlon, Jackie, Jermaine, Michael and Randy - found fame in the 1970s with hits such as I Want You Back, ABC and Shake Your Body (Down To The Ground).
Motown signed the group in 1968 and poured its all into the Jackson 5's first single, "I Want You Back" -- the writing and production team were credited as "The Corporation" -- and Jackson's imploring, dramatic vocal rocked America.
The group's first four singles -- "I Want You Back, " "ABC, " "The Love You Save" and "I'll Be There" -- went to No. 1 on the Billboard pop chart, the first time any group had pulled off that feat.
And today, as we look ahead to the next part of this journey, I just want to take you back to how it all began, at least in my mind.
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"Bowe, when you get back I want to go to the top of the mountains with you so you can look and see what this city has done for you, " Gunter told a crowd who had gathered in Hailey, Idaho, Wednesday night to show their support for the soldier.
Before I bring the panel back, I want to show you some hard numbers on the housing situation in California and then nationwide.
And so I want you to know that everybody back home is proud of you.
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"I believe swimming can't support you your whole life and I want something to fall back on, " she says.
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But I also, to help put it in perspective, I want you to think about -- back to what happened in this state in 2008.
And Jeffrey, I want to go back to something that you told us during Roberts' confirmation hearing in 2005.
"You get this feeling I can do whatever I want, you know, nothing is going to really hold me back, " said student Calla Chang.
So when you think back to these last two and a half years, I want you to do so not with complacency, not with full satisfaction, but I want it to motivate you.
"When people contact me and they want to disappear, I tell them: don't burn bridges, you might want to come back, " he says.
"One of the most important lessons that I want to teach my kids when I look back at it is when you have a goal and you decide early enough that you want to achieve it, you are so far ahead of the pack because so many people when they are going through college, they're trying to figure out what they're doing, " Roseman said.
So for me, if I'm a small business employer, and you've come into me, you shook my hand, looked me in the eye and said I will do this job for X, and then you come back the next day and complain about it, why would I ever want to work with you again?
So I would -- I mean, obviously, you're free to make any assessments you want at any time that you want, but I think his -- he was urging folks to sort of stand back and wait until he's made what will be another series of announcements, because obviously there are some positions to fill.
So today I want to step back for a minute and share with you some actual facts and news about the program.
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Professor Tannen, I wanted to go back to you, did you want to jump in on this point of historically, how do you think this - the kind of conversation we're having now fits in?
And I am sure that they will want to report back to you. (Laughter.) They're going to want -- you should give them your names, and they're going to -- your name and your address and they will send you all the information about what's being done, because I'm sure they're doing some things here locally. (Laughter.) No, I'm confident.
Or maybe you had some doubts saying, I don't want to go back and revisit that time because it was pretty grim?
And you know, it goes back to something again that I want to just talk about here briefly, because a lot of us are really confused about this Saudi thing.
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So when you're out there over this last day, and you ask people what's on their minds, I want you to ask them, are we going to turn around and go back to the same policies that got us into this hole in the first place?
"At the end of last season, I spoke to a few people and always felt I would come back, but until everything is confirmed you don't want to say too much as there is still an element of doubt, " he said.
And so the thing that I want everybody here to understand -- each of you personally -- is that back in 2008, everybody said we couldn't do it because we were outspent -- we weren't favored.
"I love seeing people's eyes light up when you ask them what color thread they want for their back pocket, " says Thoennessen.
And, you know, I don't know if there's a parallel for Bonds unless you want to go all the way back to Jack Johnson.
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