| Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection | ||||
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| Released | September 1, 2009 | |||
| Length | 233:02 | |||
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| Producer | Various | |||
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Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection is a 71-track triple disc box set commemorating Michael Jackson's early years with Motown. The album features Jackson's four solo LPs from Motown (dating from 1971 to 1975), plus songs that were released after he left the label. [2]
On June 12, 2009, Universal Music Group reissue label Hip-O Select announced on its Twitter page that the 3-CD set was available for pre-ordering, with an announced shipping date of July 3. [3]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Ain't No Sunshine" | Bill Withers | 4:09 |
| 2. | "I Wanna Be Where You Are" | Leon Ware, Arthur "T-Bone" Ross | 3:01 |
| 3. | "Girl Don't Take Your Love from Me" | Willie Hutch | 3:46 |
| 4. | "In Our Small Way" | Beatrice Verdi, Christine Yarian | 3:34 |
| 5. | "Got to Be There" | Elliot Willensky | 3:23 |
| 6. | "Rockin' Robin" | Thomas | 2:31 |
| 7. | "Wings of My Love" | Corporation | 3:32 |
| 8. | "Maria (You Were the Only One)" | Lawrence Brown, Linda Glover, George Gordy, Allen Story | 3:41 |
| 9. | "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone" | Holland-Dozier-Holland | 2:51 |
| 10. | "You've Got a Friend" | Carole King | 4:53 |
| 11. | "Ben" | Don Black, Walter Scharf | 2:44 |
| 12. | "The Greatest Show on Earth" | Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino | 2:48 |
| 13. | "People Make the World Go Round" | Thom Bell, Linda Creed | 3:15 |
| 14. | "We've Got a Good Thing Going" | The Corporation | 2:59 |
| 15. | "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" | Ace Adams, Lionel Hampton | 2:59 |
| 16. | "My Girl" | Smokey Robinson, Ronald White | 3:08 |
| 17. | "What Goes Around Comes Around" | Levinsky, Stokes, Meyers, Weatherspoon | 3:33 |
| 18. | "In Our Small Way" | Beatrice Verdi, Christine Yarian | 3:39 |
| 19. | "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day" | Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy, Stevie Wonder | 3:21 |
| 20. | "You Can Cry on My Shoulder" | Berry Gordy | 2:39 |
| 21. | "Don't Let It Get You Down" (Original Mix) | Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino, Deke Richards | 2:50 |
| 22. | "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" (Original Mix) | Smokey Robinson, White, Rogers | 3:24 |
| 23. | "Melodie" (Original Mix) | Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino, Deke Richards | 3:08 |
| 24. | "Touch the One You Love" (Original Mix) | Wayne, Clinton | 2:50 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "With a Child's Heart" | Vicky Basemore, Henry Cosby, Sylvia Moy | 3:29 |
| 2. | "Up Again" | Freddie Perren, Yarian | 2:50 |
| 3. | "All the Things You Are" | Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern | 2:59 |
| 4. | "Happy" (Love Theme from Lady Sings the Blues ) | Michel Legrand, Smokey Robinson | 3:25 |
| 5. | "Too Young" | Sidney Lippman, Sylvia Dee | 3:38 |
| 6. | "Doggin' Around" | Lena Agree | 2:52 |
| 7. | "Johnny Raven" | Billy Page | 3:33 |
| 8. | "Euphoria" | Leon Ware, Hilliard | 2:50 |
| 9. | "Morning Glow" | Stephen Schwartz | 3:37 |
| 10. | "Music and Me" | Mike Cannon, Don Fenceton, Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino | 2:38 |
| 11. | "We're Almost There" | Holland/Holland | 3:42 |
| 12. | "Take Me Back" | Holland/Holland | 3:24 |
| 13. | "One Day in Your Life" | Armand/Brown | 4:15 |
| 14. | "Cinderella Stay Awhile" | Sutton | 3:08 |
| 15. | "We've Got Forever" | Willensky | 3:10 |
| 16. | "Just a Little Bit of You" | Holland/Holland | 3:10 |
| 17. | "You Are There" | Brown/Meitzenheimer/Yarian | 3:21 |
| 18. | "Dapper Dan" | D. Fletcher | 3:11 |
| 19. | "Dear Michael" | Davis/Willensky | 2:35 |
| 20. | "I'll Come Home to You" | Perren/Yarian | 3:02 |
| 21. | "Girl You're So Together" (Original Mix) | Keni St. Lewis | 2:59 |
| 22. | "Farewell My Summer Love" (Original Mix) | Keni St. Lewis | 3:37 |
| 23. | "Call on Me" (Original Mix) | Fonce Mizell, Larry Mizell | 3:21 |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "When I Come of Age" | W. D. Parks/D. Fletcher/H. Davis | 2:37 |
| 2. | "Teenage Symphony" | G. Jones/H. Davis/M. McLeod | 2:45 |
| 3. | "I Hear a Symphony" | Holland-Dozier-Holland | 3:01 |
| 4. | "Give Me Half a Chance" | C. Davis | 3:26 |
| 5. | "Love's Gone Bad" | Holland-Dozier-Holland | 3:08 |
| 6. | "Lonely Teardrops" | B. Gordy/G. Gordy/T. Carlo | 2:40 |
| 7. | "You're Good for Me" | E. Horan | 3:15 |
| 8. | "That's What Love Is Made Of" | R. Rogers/W. Robinson/W. Moore | 3:24 |
| 9. | "I Like You the Way You Are (Don't Change Your Love on Me)" | W. Hutch | 2:57 |
| 10. | "Who's Lookin' for a Lover" | J. D. Hilliard/L. Ware | 2:50 |
| 11. | "I Was Made to Love Her" | H. Cosby/L. Hardaway/S. Moy/S. Wonder | 3:20 |
| 12. | "If'n I Was God" | R. Sherman/R. Sherman | 3:02 |
| 13. | "To Make My Father Proud" (Original Mix) | Bob Crewe, Larry Weiss | 4:11 |
| 14. | "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" (Original Mix) | Al Green, Teenie Hodges | 2:45 |
| 15. | "Twenty-Five Miles" (Original Mix) | Green, Hodges | 3:18 |
| 16. | "Don't Let It Get You Down" | Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino, Deke Richards | 3:02 |
| 17. | "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" | Smokey Robinson, White, Rogers | 3:30 |
| 18. | "Melodie" | Larson, Marcellino, Richards | 3:24 |
| 19. | "Touch the One You Love" | Wayne, Clinton | 2:48 |
| 20. | "Girl You're So Together" | Keni St. Lewis | 3:12 |
| 21. | "Farewell My Summer Love" | Keni St. Lewis | 4:24 |
| 22. | "Call on Me" | Fonce Mizell, Larry Mizell | 3:39 |
| 23. | "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" | Green, Hodges | 2:56 |
| 24. | "To Make My Father Proud" | Bob Crewe, Larry Weiss | 4:04 |
"Ben" is a song written by Don Black and Walter Scharf for the 1972 film of the same name. It was performed by Lee Montgomery in the film and by Michael Jackson over the closing credits. Jackson's single, recorded for the Motown label in 1972, spent one week at the top of the Billboard Hot 100, making it Jackson's first number one single in the US as a solo artist. Billboard ranked it as the number 20 song for 1972. It also reached number 1 on the ARIA Charts, spending eight weeks at the top spot. The song also later reached a peak of number 7 on the UK Singles Chart. In 2004, the song appeared in The Ultimate Collection.
Got to Be There is the debut solo studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released by Motown on January 24, 1972, four weeks after the Jackson 5's Greatest Hits (1971). It includes the song of the same name, which was released on October 7, 1971, as Jackson's debut solo single.
Ben is the second studio album by the American singer Michael Jackson, released by Motown Records on August 4, 1972, while Jackson was still a member of the Jackson 5. It received mixed reviews from contemporary music critics. Ben, however, was more successful on the music charts than Jackson's previous studio album, peaking within the top 10 on the Billboard 200 in the United States. Internationally, the album was less successful, peaking at number 12 in Canada, while charting within the top 200 positions in Australia and France.
Music & Me is the third studio album by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released on April 13, 1973 on the Motown label. It was arranged by Dave Blumberg, Freddie Perren, Gene Page and James Anthony Carmichael and remains Jackson's lowest selling album. In 2009, the album was reissued as part of the three-disc compilation Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection.
Forever, Michael is the fourth studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released by Motown Records on January 16, 1975. The album is credited as having songs with funk and soul material. Eddie Holland, Brian Holland, Hal Davis, Freddie Perren, and Sam Brown III served as producers on Forever, Michael. It is the final album before Jackson's solo breakthrough with his next album, Off the Wall (1979).
One Day in Your Life is a compilation released by Michael Jackson's former record label Motown Records, consisting of both solo and Jackson 5 tracks recorded with Motown, and released on March 25, 1981. It was the first Jackson album released in the 1980s. Most of the tracks are from Jackson's fourth studio album, Forever, Michael (1975). The other songs were taken from Jackson 5 releases to pad the album's running time. Motown later admitted that the album was just a quick cash grab generated from the success of Jackson's Off the Wall (1979).
Farewell My Summer Love is a compilation album of archived Michael Jackson songs recorded from January to October 1973. The album was released with updated musical production by Motown Records in the United States on May 8, 1984.
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Soulsation! is a 4-CD box set of music recorded by The Jackson 5 during their tenure at Motown Records from 1969 to 1975, when they left Motown for CBS Records. The box set was released in 1995 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of The Jackson 5 becoming the first group to have its first four singles go straight to #1 on the US Billboard charts. Soulsation! included an introduction from the group's youngest sister Janet, liner notes from David Ritz and an essay from the brothers' first producer, Bobby Taylor. The fourth disc features 17 previously unreleased songs, most recorded from mid-1969 to early 1972. The set also includes solo numbers from brothers Michael, Jermaine, and Jackie.
Ross is the ninth studio album by American singer Diana Ross, released in September 1978 by Motown Records. The album served as a new album and a compilation, as it was a mixture of old and new songs. Side A consisting of four new tracks recorded in 1978, and Side B of material recorded by Ross between 1971 and 1975, but remixed and/or extended by Motown in-house producer Russ Terrana specifically for the Ross album. Ross peaked at number 49 on the US Pop Albums chart, and number 32 on Black Albums. The album failed to chart in the UK. Its final US sales figures stood at around 150,000 copies. The cover illustration was by Rickey Ricardo Gaskins. A different album also titled Ross was released on the RCA label in 1983.
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Looking Back to Yesterday is a 1986 compilation album featuring tracks from singer Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5. As part of Motown's Never-Before-Released series, all songs were previously unreleased except for "Love's Gone Bad" and "I Was Made to Love Her"; alternate versions were released in 1979 on the Motown Jackson 5 compilation Boogie.
"Twenty-Five Miles" is a song written by Johnny Bristol, Harvey Fuqua, and Edwin Starr for Starr's second album, 25 Miles (1969). The song was considered sufficiently similar to "32 Miles out of Waycross" by Hoagy Lands, written by Bert Berns and Jerry Wexler, that Berns and Wexler were eventually given co-writing credits. Essentially the same theme also appeared in late 1959 in the approaching miles section of the lyrics of Jimmie Rodgers' "Tucumcari".
Michael Jackson's This Is It is a posthumous two-disc soundtrack album by American singer Michael Jackson. Released by MJJ Music on October 26, 2009, This Is It features previously released music, as well as six previously unreleased recordings by Jackson. This Is It was released to coincide with the theatrical release of Michael Jackson's This Is It, a concert film documenting Jackson's rehearsals for the This Is It concert series at the O2 Arena in London. This Is It is the sixth album to be released by Sony and Motown/Universal since Jackson's death on June 25, 2009.
Suzee Ikeda is an American singer who was the first Asian-American solo artist at Motown. However, she is best known for her work "behind the scenes" at Motown with such acts as Michael Jackson and The Temptations.
The Definitive Collection is a compilation album by American singer Michael Jackson released by Universal Motown in 2009, and the third album to be released since his death.
Joyful Jukebox Music is a compilation album by American music group the Jackson 5, released by the Motown label on October 26, 1976, after the band had left the label. This is the third compilation released by the group, after Greatest Hits (1971) and Anthology (1976), yet the first to be entirely composed of previously unreleased material, recorded between 1972 and 1975. The compilation was released less than two weeks before the group's debut on their new label Epic Records.
Boogie is a compilation album of both previously released and unreleased tracks by American band The Jackson 5. It was released by the Motown label on January 16, 1979, after the release of the Jacksons studio album Destiny (1978) a month earlier. Boogie is considered the rarest of all Jackson 5/Jacksons releases, as not many albums were pressed and fewer were sold at the time.
The Motown Years is a 3-disc compilation box set by American singer Michael Jackson and the group The Jackson 5, released on September 9, 2008, by Motown Records and Universal Music Group to celebrate Jackson's 50th birthday. The 50-track album features all of the hits through the Motown years from both the Jackson 5 and Michael's solo material, all of them released during their tenure with Motown (1969–1975), with the exception of "Farewell My Summer Love" and "Girl You're So Together", which were released in 1984, long after Jackson and the group had left the company.
