Triumph (The Jacksons album)

Infobox Album
Name = Triumph
Type = Album
Artist = The Jacksons


Released = September 17, 1980
Recorded = December 3, 1979-August 30, 1980, Los Angeles, California
Genre = Funk/R&B/Soul
Length = 44:39
Label = CBS/Epic
Producer = The Jacksons
Reviews =
Last album = "Destiny" (1978)
This album = "Triumph" (1980)
Next album = "The Jacksons Live!" (1981)

"Triumph" was a 1980 album by The Jacksons for CBS/Epic Records.

A Platinum follow-up to the group's 1978 album, "Destiny", the group shared lead vocals and special solo spots on all nine songs. Lead singer Michael Jackson handles most of the lead vocals himself. The album's hits included "Lovely One", "Can You Feel It" and "Heartbreak Hotel" (which was renamed "This Place Hotel" to avoid confusion with the Elvis Presley song of the same name). The album was a major success and the tour for this project is considered one of the best of the 1980s.

When it was released, the album became the Jacksons' first album to reach number-one on the R&B Albums chart since "Maybe Tomorrow" in 1971, and went Platinum a year after its release. The group would not release another studio LP for four years after "Triumph"'s release.

Re release

TRIUMPH, with three bonus tracks of rare 12-inch mixes also previously unavailable on CD will arrive in stores September 2nd on Epic/Legacy, a division of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT. [ [http://www.legacyrecordings.com/News/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsGuid=aae9d0f4-0059-485b-8f27-bdac65e1e236 LegacyRecordings.com » News ] ]

Track listing

# "Can You Feel It" (J. Jackson/M. Jackson) - 6:00
# "Lovely One" (M. Jackson/R. Jackson) - 4:52
# "Your Ways" (J. Jackson) - 4:31
# "Everybody" (M. Jackson/T. Jackson/McKinney) - 5:00
# "This Place Hotel" (M. Jackson) - 5:44
# "Time Waits For No One" (J. Jackson/R. Jackson) - 3:24
# "Walk Right Now" (M. Jackson/J. Jackson/R. Jackson) - 6:29
# "Give It Up" (M. Jackson/R. Jackson) - 4:20
# "Wondering Who" (J. Jackson/R. Jackson) - 4:19

Outtakes

* "Slipped Away"
* "Why Can't I Be"

Member personnel

*Jackie Jackson (vocals; lead vocals on "Wondering Who")
*Tito Jackson (guitar; vocals; guitar solo on "This Place Hotel")
*Marlon Jackson (timpani; vocals; co-lead vocals in "Give It Up")
*Michael Jackson (lead vocals; percussion)
*Randy Jackson (percussion; co-lead vocals in "Can You Feel It")

Credits

*Produced, arranged, written and composed by The Jacksons except for "Everybody" (written by Michael Jackson, Tito Jackson and Mike McKinney)

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