‘I Want You Back’: The Jackson 5’s Sensational Motown Debut

‘I Want You Back’: The Jackson 5’s Sensational Motown Debut

Until the late 1960s, the most famous person connected with Gary, Indiana was the lawyer after whom it was named on its incorporation in 1906, Elbert Gary. A co-founder of the redoubtable US Steel corporation, his profile was such that another new town, Gary, Virginia, also took his name. But that was before the wider world heard about some young residents of the conurbation, some 25 miles from Chicago, which it did when the Jackson 5’s first Mo…