The Jackson 5 – I Found That Girl

Featured on the Jackson 5’s ABC album, issued in May 1970 in the US and August 1970 in the UK. Lead vocals by Jermaine.

Also issued as the B-side of The Love You Save but, largely thanks to Jermaine’s popularity with girls, it was listed alongside the A-side on many Billboard charts, including the Hot 100 and R&B singles chart – it hit no.1 on both charts. Achieved no.7 in the UK.

It featured in the ‘Rasho Jackson’ episode of the Jackson 5 cartoon series in 1971.

A promo red vinyl, double-side 7" single was released in the USA.

I Found That Girl – Lyrics

Jackson Five: Oooh, Oooh-Oooh-Oooh, Oooh, Oooh-Oooh-Oooh,
Mama, oh mama, I found that girl
Mama, oh mama, I found that girl

Jermaine: Mama, blind for me now
Is a new sensation
Just like, you said it would be
With the right situation
Now love has a meaning
And I…have a goal
This feeling inside me now
May chance to be a 100 years old
Now I understand
J5: I understand
Jermaine: What it is to be a man
J5:To be a man
Jermaine: The way you explained it to me that day,
You said only the right girl
Can make me feel this way

Well mama, I think I found that girl
J5: I found that girl
Jermaine: Yeah, yeah
Mama, I think I found that girl
J5: I found that girl

Jermaine: Oooh, mama, she’s that beautiful dream
That I dream each night,
She’s that hurdle of
On those wings, of their flight
She’s those words left,
When there’s no more to say
She’s my sunshine
At the end, of a perfect day

Jermaine: All this lets me find
J5: Let’s me find
Jermaine: A reason to be alive
J5: To be alive

Jermaine: That day, when you saw me upon your knee,
You said only the right girl can be all these things

Jermaine: Mama, I think I found that girl
J5: I found that girl
Jermaine: Mama, I think I found that girl
J5: I found that girl

Jermaine: You said son, go on and search around,
There’s a good girl, who’s out there, to be found

Jermaine: And Mama, I think I found that girl
J5: I found that girl
Jermaine: Yeah, yeah mama, I think I found that girl
J5: I found that girl

Jermaine: Whoa-ho-ho, whoa-ho-ho, um-hum, hum hum
Mama, I know, I know I found that girl