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  Name The Love You Save
  Cover love-u-save-jackson5jpg
  Artist The Jackson 5
  From Album ABC
  Released May 16 1970 <small>( US )</small>
  Format Vinyl Record <small>(7" 45 RPM)</small>
  Recorded Hitsville West, Los Angeles 1970
  Genre Bubblegum Pop / Soul
  Length 3:04
  Label Motown <br><small>M 1166</small>
  Writer The Corporation™
  Producer The Corporation™
  Chart Position <ul><li>#1 (US, US R&B)</li> <li>#7 ( UK )</li></ul>
  Last Single " ABC " <br>(1970)
  This Single "The Love You Save" <br>(1970)
  Next Single " I'll Be There " <br>(1970)


"The Love You Save" is a 1970 number-one hit single recorded by The Jackson 5 for the Motown label. It held the number one position on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks, from June 20 to July 4 , 1970 , replacing " The Long And Winding Road " by The Beatles , and replaced by " Mama Told Me (Not To Come) " by Three Dog Night . It is the third of four Jackson 5 number-ones released in a row (the others are " I Want You Back ", " ABC ", and " I'll Be There ").

While "The Love You Save" is the least-known of the four Jackson 5 number-ones, it has one of the most distinctive melodies and is the most musically complex of the four singles. The song's lyrics feature Michael and Jermaine Jackson warning a "fast" girl to slow down and "stop!" because "the love you save may be your own!"

The opening exclamation of "stop" and the footstomps that compliment the rhythm during the latter part of the song are allusions to the 1965 number-one Motown single by The Supremes , " Stop! In The Name Of Love ". The Jackson 5 essentially replaced The Supremes as Motown's main focus in the early 1970s , although Diana Ross , who left the group for a solo career not long before the release of this single, was publicized as having discovered the Jackson 5.

Like most of the other early Jackson 5 hits, "The Love You Save" was Written and Produced by The Corporation™ , a team comprised of Motown chief Berry Gordy , Freddie Perren , Alphonzo Mizell , and Deke Richards and recorded in Los Angeles, California , away from the old Motown studio at Hitsville USA in Detroit, Michigan .

"The Love You Save" was the second single from the second Jackson 5 album, '' ABC ''.


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  Before " The Long And Winding Road " / " For You Blue " by The Beatles
  Title Billboard Hot 100 Number One Single
  Years June 27 1970 - July 4 1970
  After " Mama Told Me (Not To Come) " by Three Dog Night