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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And I want you to remind people how back when Barack first took office, this economy was losing an average of 750, 000 jobs a month -- a month!
So this evening, I want you and your fellow citizens back home to know how much this has meant to all of us - to the good people of Newtown, to me, and to the American people.
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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.
But I also want you to remind people how back when Barack first took office, this economy was losing an average of 750, 000 jobs every month.
But I want you to remind people how, back when Barack first took office, this economy was losing an average of 750, 000 jobs every single month.
And I want you to remind people how, back when Barack first took office, what welcomed him after the inauguration was an economy that was losing an average of 750, 000 jobs every single month.
And Jeffrey, I want to go back to something that you told us during Roberts' confirmation hearing in 2005.
And I also want you to remind people that, back when Barack first took office, he inherited an economy that was losing an average of 750, 000 jobs a month, okay?
And so we're here in Missouri to -- we were here in Missouri at the end of a long journey to the White House, and so now I want to come back and speak to you at the beginning of another long journey.
"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?
And I want you to be sure to remind people how, back when Barack first took office, this economy was losing an average of 750, 000 jobs every single month.
It is wonderful to be back at GW. I want you to know that one of the reasons that I worked so hard with Democrats and Republicans to keep the government open was so that I could show up here today.
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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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