- January 10:
One More Chance, a Jackson 5 TV Special is aired on CBS. The group performs Get It Together + a medley of I Want You Back/ABC/I’ll Be There/Ben/Daddy’s Home/Never Can Say Goodbye/The Love You Save and another medley Up a Lazy River/Opus One (with the Mills Brothers)
- January 29:
The Jackson 5 arrive in Dakar ( Senegal ) for their first African tour. They hold a press conference with Senegalise radio
During their stay, they receive an award for the Organisation for African Unity and they visit Goree Island and they shoot a film called Isomin Cross And Son which tells of a family crossing the in 1860 and the problems they encounter.
- February 1/2/3:
Concerts in Dakar.
- February 4:
The Jackson 5 fly home.
- February 22:
Concert in Houston ( Texas )
- January 30:
The Jackson 5 perform Dancing Machine at the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour.
- February 19:
Michael appears at the first annual American Music Awards to present awards with Donny Osmond to The Temptations and with Donny Osmond, Ricky Segal and Ricky Allen to the Carpenters.
- March:
The Jackson 5 appear on the cover of Blues & Soul with a feature on their African trip.
- March 2:
The Jackson 5 present an award to Gladys Knight & The Pips at the Grammy Awards.
- March 7:
The Jackson 5 are on the cover of Jet Magazine.
- March 11:
Michael sings When I Grow Up with Roberta Flack at the Free To Be… You and Me TV show.
- March 16:
The Jackson 5 perform Dancing Machine & This Old Man/ABC at the Carol Burnett Show.
- April :
The Jackson 5 perform It’s Too Late To Change the Time & Dancing Machine at the Mike Douglas Show.
- April 4:
The Jackson 5 perform Let It Be, Never Can Say Goodbye & Dancinf Machine at the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
- April 9:
The Jackson 5 perform It’s Too Late To Change The Time & Dancing Machine at the Merv Griffin Show.
- April 9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/19/20/21/22/23 :
Joe Jackson arranges for the whole family , including sisters Rebbie, LaToya & Janet to perform twice a day a family show at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas ( Nevada ). Katherine attends every shows.
- April 10:
The Jackson 5 perform I Want You Back/ABC at the Sandy in Disneyland TV special.
- April 26/27/28:
The Jackson family moves her cabaret set to the Sahara Tahoe Hotel in Lake Tahoe ( Nevada )
- May 13:
Concert in Washington D.C.
- June 22:
Concert at the Forum of Los Angeles .
- June 24/25/26/27/28/29/30:
Concerts in Chicago ( Illinois )
- July 8/9/10/11/12/13/14:
Concerts in San Carlos ( California )
- July 19:
Concert in Pittsburg (Pensylvania)
- July 20:
Concert in Trenton ( New Jersey )
- July 21:
Concert in Richmond ( Virginia )
- July 26:
Concert in Buffalo ( New York )
- July 27:
Concerts at the Madison Square Garden of New York .
- July 29/30/31/August 1/2/3/4:
Concerts in Cleveland ( Ohio )
- August 1:
The Jackson family in on the cover of Jet Magazine.
- August 6:
Concert in Huntsville ( Alabama )
- August 7:
Concert in New Orleans ( Louisiana )
- August 10:
Concert in St Louis ( Missouri )
- August 11:
Concert in Kansas City ( Missouri )
- August 16:
Concert in St Paul ( Minnesota )
- August 17:
The Jackson 5 perform at the World Expo in Spokane ( Washington )
- August 19:
The Jackson 5 perform Dancing Machine & a medley of Killing Me Softly with his song/By The Time I Get To Phoenix/Danny Boy at the Tonight Show with Bill Cosby.
- August 21/22/23/24/25/26/27/28/30/31/September 1/2/3:
The Jackson family return to the MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas for another series of shows.
- August 30:
Cheryl Terrel, Joe’s lover, gives birth to a baby girl named Joh’ Vonnie.
- September:
The Jackson 5 appear at the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
- September 3:
The Jackson 5 perform Dancing Machine at the Merv Griffin Show and Janet makes her TV debut playing her Las Vegas act with Randy.
- September 5:
The album Dancing Machine is released by Motown.
- September 5-October 1:
The Jackson 5 tour South America with concerts in , & .
- September 22:
The Jackson 5 perform Life Of The Party at the Sonny Comedy Revue.
- October:
The single Whatever You Got I Want is released by Motown.
- October 4/5/6:
New series of family shows in Sahara Tahoe ( Nevada )
- October 7-November 1:
The Jackson 5 tours the Far East with concerts in Japon, Hong Kong, , & .
- October 19:
Michael performs Whatever You Got I Want, What You Don’t Know & If I Don’t Love You This Way at the Soul Train Show.
- November 3:
Concert in Oakland ( California )
- November 15:
The Jackson 5 perform Dancing Machine & It’s Too Late To Change The World at the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson.
- November 20/21/22/23/24/25/26/27/28/29/30/31/December 1/2/3:
Last series of family shows at the MGM Grand Hotel of Las Vegas. Backstage, Michael meets Elvis Presley & his daughter Lisa Marie…
- November 24:
Jackie marries Enid Spann in Las Vegas .
- December:
The single I Am Love is released by Motown. The whole Jackson family is on the cover of Ebony magazine.
