#randy jackson

[atomic-chronoscaph]

The Jacksons: Victory - art by Michael Whelan (1984)

#michael whelan #the jacksons #80s album covers #michael jackson #80s bands #album cover art #80s music #jermaine jackson #tito jackson #jackie jackson #marlon jackson #randy jackson #1980s #1984

[singonavine71]

#michael jackson #tito jackson #jermaine jackson #marlon jackson #randy jackson #motown #black archives #black music #60s music #70s music #soul group #vocal group #jackson five

[twixnmix]

The Jacksons performing during the Destiny Tour at the Municipal Auditorium in New Orleans on October 3,1979. 

Photos by Ebet Roberts  

#jacksons #michael jackson #tito jackson #jackie jackson #randy jackson #destiny tour #1979 #king of pop #1970s #1970s music

[d-criss-news]

How Many Golden Medley Songs Does Darren Criss Know? | Name That Tune

Jane Krakowski puts Darren Criss’ musical knowledge to the ultimate test during the golden medley challenge.

#darren criss #jane krakowski #randy jackson #name that tune #fox #youtube #video #sept 2023

[spirits-having-flown]

Prince on the cover of the December 1980 issue of Night Beat Magazine

#night beat magazine #prince #ashford & simpson #eric washington #donna summer #randy jackson #tina andrews #michael jackson #larry hilton jacobs #1980s #80s #1980 #80s magazine

[wildandmoody]

50 years ago today...... goosebumps

#J5 #The jackson five #jackson 5 #johnny carson #1974 #michael jackson #marlon jackson #tito jackson #jackie jackson #randy jackson #jermaine jackson #70s #Right here some of the best vocals michael ever produced.....ever #Youtube

[90s-2000s-barbie]

From Justin To Kelly (2003)

#kelly clarkson #justin guarini #american idol #simon cowell #paula abdul #randy jackson #y2k #2000s #2000s nostalgia #2000s style #2000s kids #y2k nostalgia #00s #y2k aesthetic #y2k style #2000s kid #00’s fashion #00's #00s aesthetic #y2k fashion #y2kcore #00score #00’s #00s kid #00s core #from Justin to Kelly #2003 #03 #00s movies #movies

[imthefailedartist]

Judges or Distractions

I've been trying to think about why American Idol has so many successful contestants, but a show like The Voice, which arguably has the same hype, has none and I think I've found the reason.

The judges panel.

Idol's panel consisted of a behind the scenes music executive, two former performers who had moved on to more behind the scenes work, Simon Cowell, Randy Jackson, and Paula Abdul. The Voice opened its doors with a stacked panel of front of camera celebrities, Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, Christina Agulilera, and Ceelo Green and a few twists. Judges weren't just judges they were coaches, contestants were chosen solely based on their vocal abilities, no more Sanjaya's or William Hung's just talented singers hoping for their chance at a recording contract.

On Idol, Jackson and Abdul had moved from the spotlight. The former became a producer, the latter choreography. Cowell was a popular producer. While The Voices judges were coming off album releases and hit singles. You knew who they were and were tuning in to see them. Whereas on American Idol, you'd heard of them but not in a while, so you wanted to see what they were up to and got distracted by the singing.

American Idol advertised the singers and the competition. The Voice is the opposite, every commercial focuses on the judges. Come see this famous person do this thing. Come see the bromance between Blake and Adam. Come see Christina Aguilera and Ceelo Green be subject to the Bladam's antics.

Idol viewers had no choice but to tune in and pay attention to the singers. Even when the judges' quirks became drinking game worthy, they were still never a distraction.

The voice has had 24 seasons. 24 ended a few weeks ago, and they are advertising season 25 now. And I have no idea who won. I have never heard of any of the winners from any season. Not a song, not a Good Morning America interview, nothing! Kelly Clarkson won in 2002. I remember the radio DJ announcing the new song from the winner of American Idol. Since U Been Gone sounded and I was struck. Jennifer Hundson placed 7th on her season, and she's an EGOT, both have served as coaches on The Voice. Carrie Underwood is the most awarded country singer.

I say all of this as a person who does not watch either show, yet I know so much about winners and runnerups of American Idol. I watched one season of Idol (S6) because a girl from my area was on the show, and the whole county was rooting and voting for her. Once she was eliminated, I stopped watching, but not before, of course, casting a few joke votes for Sanjaya. The Voice I've seen absolutely nothing of.

Supporting my theory is that once Cowell, Jackson, and Abdul left the show and were replaced with current celebrity judges, my knowledge of the winners and losers has gone to zilch. Scott McCreary and Phillip Phillips were the last winners I've ever heard music from. Now, all the ads focus on the celebrity judges. Occasionally, a contestant will slip through, but it's never of them singing just their heartfelt story.

#american idol #the Voice #simon cowell #paula abdul #randy jackson #Kelly Clarkson #jennifer hudson #celebrity #singing competition #sanjaya #egot #christina aguilera #adam levine #blake shelton #cee lo green #reba mcentire #john legend #gwen stefani #mariah carey #nicki minaj #jordin sparks #will i am #carrie underwood #joe jonas #nick jonas #dan + shay #jennifer lopez #harry connick jr #luke bryan #steven tyler

[helloparkerrose]

The Flip Wilson Show with The Jacksons (1972)

I have come across this skit for some time, now. Enjoy this hilarious skit of The Flip Wilson Show featuring The Jacksons and Diana Sands.

#1970s #jackson five #the jacksons #randy jackson #marlon jackson #michael jackson #jackie jackson #jermaine jackson #tito jackson #flip wilson show #funny skit #brothers #diana sands #Youtube

[spiritsdancinginthenight]

Rare photographs of a young Michael Jackson riding a horse and cart in Dakar, Senegal, West Africa.

#michael jackson #randy jackson #west africa #senegal #dakar #the jacksons #jackson 5

[laderniereseancedecedrique]

THE GREATEST NIGHT IN POP (2024)

Durée Du Film : 1h37mn29s

#The Greatest Night in Pop #Michael Jackson #Jackie Jackson #La Toya Jackson #Marlon Jackson #Randy Jackson #Tito Jackson #Lionel Richie #Harry Belafonte #Quincy Jones #Cyndi Lauper #Bruce Springsteen #Huey Lewis #Smokey Robinson #Dionne Warwick #Sheila E. #Kenny Rogers #Dan Aykroyd #Kim Carnes #Ray Charles #Bob Dylan #James Ingram #Al Jarreau #Billy Joel #Willie Nelson #Diana Ross #Stevie Wonder #Youtube

[twixnmix]

The Jacksons during the Victory Tour press conference at the Tavern on the Green in New York City on November 30, 1983.

Photos by Andy Warhol

#jacksons #michael jackson #tito jackson #jermaine jackson #randy jackson #jackie jackson #marlon jackson #1983 #king of pop #nyc #1980s fashion #1980s music #1980s #andy warhol #pop culture

[saleintothe90s]

478. 93 things about 1993, part 3

(part 2)

(Newsweek, November 1, 1993)

12. David Williams' $125,000 baby

(source)

David couldn't make his plane to the game anyway due to the weather even if he tried:

While Debi was in labor, David was on the delivery room phone with coaches and team officials. Time was running out to catch that last flight and the conversation wasn't pretty.

"It was hard on her at the time ... She could hear them screaming over the phone at me,'' David said. "Finally the doctor just yanked the phone plug, took the phone off the wall and said 'We're not taking any more calls.' ''

Scot didn't arrive until almost 6:25 p.m. and, by then, it was too late for Williams to catch the 6:54 p.m. flight from either airport.

"Even if I had left the second after he was born, I still never would have made that plane,'' he said. "It was nerve-wracking for me. I'd never been through anything like that. It was tough.''

He said teammates Mike Munchak and Bruce Matthews tried to arrange a private plane through a third party, but when David left the hospital around 11:30 p.m., he hadn't heard back.

"I had been up with Deb since 4 o'clock that morning and going through that emotional roller coaster of getting screamed at and yelled at by coaches and general manager as I'm in the delivery room,'' he said. "My wife's giving birth and I'm getting screamed at. Man, it isn't supposed to feel like this.'' 1

13. Randy Jackson is kidnapped in Columbia

14. Sales of saxophones rise cuz of Bill 

15. New Yorker "kiss" cover

The artist of the cover was Art Spiegelman, the author/illustrator of the Maus series of graphic novels:

“This metaphoric embrace is my Valentine’s card to New York, a wish for the reconciliation of seemingly unbridgeable differences in the form of a symbolic kiss,” he wrote. “I’m also painfully aware that the calamities facing black communities in New York cannot be kissed away. But once a year, perhaps, it’s permissible, even if just for a moment, to close one’s eyes, see beyond the tragic complexities of modern life, and imagine that it might really be true that ‘all you need is love.’” 2

16. Bill Clinton was supposed to be in the Cheers finale?

I thought that this was some sort of rumor that was sent via faxes in offices, and then it branched into water cooler rumor, but NO. Bill really wanted to be in the finale of Cheers (which I bring up here). Unfortunately, when it came to shoot the finale in April, Bill couldn't make it due to Hillary's dad being in poor health, and an upcoming meeting with Boris Yeltsin. 3

I wonder why Bill didn't make a cameo during the last episode of Frasier to make up for it? I mean, he wasn't doing anything in 2004.

17. Neptune, Florida Kmart pipe bomb (December 30th)

Remember when we had to worry about random bombings in the early 90s?

The perp wouldn't be found until June of 1994:

"I think this guy just wanted to blow things up"

He got ten years!

Hauser, Melanie. ‘25 Years Later, Ex-Oiler David Williams and Son Reflect on “Babygate” Firestorm’. Houston Chronicle, 15 October 2018. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/texas-sports-nation/texans/article/25-years-later-ex-Oiler-David-Williams-and-son-13308250.php. https://archive.is/DjIfp

Finnegan, Leah. ‘“New Yorker” Covers? Watercolor Me Unimpressed’. The Outline. Accessed 21 April 2023. https://theoutline.com/post/1541/the-new-yorker-covers-are-bad.

Tampa Bay Times. “President Must Skip Final "Cheers’.” April 1, 1993. https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/04/01/president-must-skip-final-cheers/.

#1993 #cheers #bill clinton #kmart #randy jackson #New Yorker magazine #houston oilers #David williams

[sbrown82]

Was Tina messing around with Randy Jackson’s girlfriend and then shot him? I know Randy was controlling and trying to be aggressive with them so he got what was coming to him but Tina messing around with the woman ?!??

If you're trying to insinuate that Tina Turner is a lesbian, that is false. However, according to Tina’s former personal assistant Eddy Hampton Armani who wrote a memoir about his relationship with Tina after years of working for her, in the 1980s Randy Jackson was dating a woman named Bernadette Robi who had alleged that he was physically abusive to her, so she sought refuge at Tina's home (as she previously dated her son). Apparently, Randy was very controlling and always forced her to do things she didn’t want to do - things Eddy claimed were too horrific and shocking to even mention in the book he wrote. After Randy found out that Bernadette was confiding in Tina, he showed up at her house, unannounced and demanded to see her. When Tina refused to let him in, he threw a large plant plot through the glass doors and entered the house. (**Reminder: Ike Turner once sent goons to shoot up Tina’s home after she left him back in the late 70s) Tina sprang into action, grabbed her gun (which she has a right to own), and shot at Randy after he tried to break in without Tina’s permission. He ran, and legend has it was shot in the ass. Tina and the girl decided not to press charges in order to avoid bad publicity. But years would go by without any of them commenting on the incident, until 2011 when Randy finally admitted - via Twitter - that it did in fact happen and Tina got a good shot off on him! I always heard stories and rumors about Randy (the corniest Jackson next to Tito) was a hothead. In the 90s, he was even arrested and charged with battery for beating his ex-wife Eliza Shaffy. 

#tina turner #randy jackson #bernadette robi #old school tea #black women #anon

[wildandmoody]

Didn't realize that today's the 45th anniversary of the release of the Destiny album by The Jacksons, so since my vinyls were out already I figured I'd flex my collection a lil bit. Excuse the awful lighting

#The Jacksons #Destiny #1978 #70s #Michael Jackson #Randy Jackson #Marlon Jackson #Tito Jackson #Jackie Jackson #my stuff

[babybackstage]

Mom and Dad 💘

Paula looking off to the distance to check on Eric because in my alternate universe they are a family❤️

Paula is serving in that dress and I'm so glad she is

#saula #paula abdul #simon cowell #paula #abdul #simon #cowell #american idol #x factor usa #randy jackson