On November 21, 1967, The Jackson 5 were signed by Joe Jackson to their first record contract with Gordon Keith, owner and first president of Steeltown Records in Gary, Indiana. Joseph booked them in more professional venues, including in Chicago, and they eventually landed a gig at the Apollo Theater in New York City. After a couple of years performing in local talent contests and high school functions, The Jackson 5 got a color TV set after the judges awarded them second place. Following the inclusion of Marlon and Michael in the group, their name was changed to The Jackson 5. At first, the group went under the name The Jackson Brothers. Joseph began enforcing long and intense rehearsals for his sons. Younger sons Marlon and Michael were eventually put into the band youngest brother Randy was too young to join at the time. He then first started working with his three eldest sons Jackie, Tito, and Jermaine. In the early 1960s, Joe Jackson began pushing his sons in a musical direction after they began playing around with his musical instruments while he was at work. That band became a successful doo-wop group named The Spaniels. Despite their efforts, The Falcons did not get a recording deal and subsequently broke up after one of their members, Thornton "Pookie" Hudson, founded his own band in 1952. ĭuring the early 1950s, Jackson briefly performed with his younger brother Luther Jackson in their own blues band The Falcons, playing guitar. Joseph and Katherine went on to raise ten children, as their son Brandon Jackson (Marlon's twin) died just after he was born. During the late 1950s, she began working part-time at Sears in Gary. In the meantime, his wife Katherine tended to their growing family. He later took a second part-time job at American Foundries in East Chicago. Still employed at Inland Steel, Jackson left his hopes of becoming a professional boxer in order to support his family, and began working there as a full-time crane operator. Their first child, Maureen Reillette "Rebbie" Jackson, was born four months later on May 29, 1950, in the Jackson house. Joseph and Katherine were married on Novemin January 1950, they purchased a small two-bedroom home on 2300 Jackson Street near East Chicago in Gary, Indiana. Joe was married to another woman, but was divorced in less than a year before he started dating Katherine. While he was preparing for a professional boxing career, he met 17-year-old Katherine Scruse, who also lived in East Chicago and attended Washington High School. While in East Chicago, he began to pursue his dreams of becoming a boxer and found success with the Golden Gloves program. He soon got a job in East Chicago at Inland Steel Company but did not finish high school. When he was 18, his father remarried, and he moved to East Chicago to live with his mother, two brothers, and sister. After his parents separated when he was twelve, his mother, two brothers, and sister moved to East Chicago, Indiana, a suburb outside Chicago in Northwest Indiana, while he moved with his father to Oakland, California. Jackson recalled from his early childhood that his father was domineering and strict, and he described himself in his memoir The Jacksons as a "lonely child that had only few friends". His great-grandfather, July "Jack" Gale, was a US Army scout he was also claimed to be an Indigenous American medicine man. According to the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame and Katherine Jackson's book My Family, The Jacksons, his year of birth was 1929. Joseph Walter Jackson was born in Fountain Hill, Arkansas to Crystal Lee (née King May 1907 – November 4, 1992) and Samuel Joseph Jackson (Ap– October 31, 1993) on July 26, 1928. He was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in 2014. Joseph Walter Jackson (J– June 27, 2018) was an American talent manager and patriarch of the Jackson family of entertainers.
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