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You could tell it came from the '80s, but it sounded like it came from the future.' 'One day, I found 'Thriller', and I listened to it. 'My mom listened to it all the time, but I blew it off,' Garsee said by phone. He became upset, and his passenger had to take the wheel and pull into the Barnes & Noble parking lot.Īt 15, he started listening to the King of Pop.

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I remember seeing people pass out on TV and faint whenever they would see him,' Allison said.ĭylan Garsee, 18, was overwhelmed when he heard the radio report while driving on Dowlen Road Thursday afternoon. 'Some people will say he is still alive to try to hold onto him. He likens Jackson's death to Elvis', where some people refuse to believe he is indeed gone. He and his sister used to buy Jackson's singles and listen to music from when the pop icon performed as The Jackson 5 with his brothers on the Motown label. If he had his choice it would be Thriller.īriefly reminiscing, Allison talked about how in middle school he owned a replica of the red leather jacket Jackson wore in the short-film. 'It makes you want to go play some old Michael Jackson songs,' Allison said. It was different from his other ones,' Allison said.īut it is the song, 'Break of Dawn,' that really gets people on the dance floor.Īllison said he and his wife were stunned to learn of Jackson's death because nobody knew he was sick.

'It had a lot of swing out songs on it that you could dance to it. Jackson's Invincible album, produced in 2001, will remain a classic for 33-year-old Brandon Allison, a Port Arthur teacher who also is a disc jockey for the Swing Out Civic Club. 'I am just so excited to know him and say I did work with Michael Jackson.' Lynn said she plans to dedicate her upcoming shows in Houston, New York and Washington, D.C., to the late King of Pop. She and her family loved his dance moves, and she said she has three grandsons who love to do the moonwalk. Lynn said she never had the chance to see Jackson perform after that night in Chicago, but that she followed his career closely. 'I said 'This group is going to be somebody and Michael is going to be somebody.' And just like I said it, that's how it went down.'

'I was amazed to see that little boy singing and dancing,' Lynn said. I had never heard of them.'Īfter their performance, Lynn said she knew Jackson would emerge from the group and become a star. 'They told me I would be working with a group called the Jackson 5 from Gary, Ind. 'He didn't know a thing about me,' Lynn, 67, said by phone from her Beaumont home Thursday.

She still has fond memories of a show she played in the 1960s at the High Chaparral Club in Chicago where a 9-year-old Jackson opened up for her.