High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Dancing Machine" is a 1973 song recorded by The Jackson 5, released as a single in 1974. The group`s first US Top Ten hit since 1971`s "Sugar Daddy", "Dancing Machine" reached number two on the Billboard pop music charts in May 1974, and number one on the R B charts. It bought The Jackson 5 their second Grammy Award nomination in 1975 for Best R B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, losing to Rufus and Chaka Khan`s "Tell Me Something Good".