Stevie Wonder / The Jackson 5 (Michael Jackson) 1968 Chicago Concert Poster....

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HALF A BILLION RECORDS SOLD BY STEVIE & MICHAEL

Stevie Wonder / The Jackson 5 (Michael Jackson) 1968 Chicago Concert Poster. An original concert-advertising window card from the famous Regal Theatre in Chicago, IL selling tickets for headliner Stevie Wonder and support act The Jackson 5 for a week of shows commencing on Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 28, 1968.

This is a stunning and previously unknown poster until it was turned up in a small group of unused Chicago concert posters only last year. "Regal" and "Stevie Wonder" are presented in big, beautiful, catchy red color, there's a brilliantly sharp photo of Stevie with his oversized harmonica, and then you've got The Jackson 5 right under his name... featuring a 10-year-old Michael Jackson. It's a breathtaking find for any fan of Motown, soul music or just plain brilliant musical artistry. Anyone care to count up the number of records Stevie and Michael have sold between them? Five minutes of Google research told us about half a billion.

The J5, by the way, would not start hitting the charts until a full year after this... Thanksgiving 1969 with "I Want You Back" on Motown. Stevie, on the other hand, was sitting in the national Top 10 this week with "For Once in My Life." Earlier this year, he had done the same with "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day."

Ironically, although blown away by the competition, Johnny Taylor is also right under Stevie's name, and this very week he held the bragging rights: Taylor's "Who's Making Love" was one spot ahead of "For Once in My Life" on Billboard's pop singles chart, sitting at #6. Taylor would burn up the R&B charts for about the next 10 years.

Being a previously unknown poster, this is the first time it's ever been offered by Heritage or in any public auction.

Measures 22" x 28" and grades to Near Mint Minus condition. COA from Heritage Auctions.

More Information: Syl Johnson is one of the bottom-billed acts here. He had a Top 10 R&B hit in 1975 with "Take Me to the River." The Talking Heads notably covered it at the end of the 70's.

Condition details: The only real issue here is a bent lower-left corner, creating a visible two-inch crease. Inside of that, the corner's tip is also creased a couple of times. There's also a tiny quarter-inch tear in the white margin by Stevie's elbow. Very slight, invisible surface crease in the yellow under the "KS" of "Thanksgiving." The rest of the poster is pristine, with solid colors and printing throughout, the only printer's flaws we spotted being the small white streak on Stevie's jacket and tiny blue markings on "Jackson" (Dion Jackson) in the lower right. It's a pearl of a poster, we guess you might say.


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