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“3rd Tokyo Music Festival”

Date range confirmed in Billboard (“June 29/30”)

Artie Wayne, co-writer of the song “Little Christmas Tree”, blog post (June 25, 2009)

I met [Michael] and his family at the Tokyo Music Festival in 1974, and had a chance to tell him how much I liked his recording of my song [“Little Christmas Tree”]. I also told him that he was one of my biggest dance influences, which made him smile considering I was three times his age.

When I told Michael that I was a song plugger and I couldn’t go out dancing late at night like I once did, he said in that high little voice of his, “Artie…why don’t you build a dance floor in your office?”

As soon as I got back to Hollywood, Warner Brothers Music built me a four foot circular plywood dance floor, but a few months later when I went to run A&M's publishing company they constructed a six foot mahogany one for me! To this day I’m proud to tell everyone that it was Michael Jackson’s idea.