Love Songs (Michael Jackson album)

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Love Songs
Michael Jackson Love Songs cover.jpg
Compilation album by
ReleasedJanuary 15, 2002
Recorded1969–1974
Length48:14
Label Motown
Producer
  • Harry Weinger
  • Anthony Ellis (compilation producers)
Michael Jackson chronology
Invincible
(2001)
Love Songs
(2002)
Number Ones
(2003)

Love Songs is a compilation album by American singer and recording artist Michael Jackson, including some with the Jackson 5. It was released on January 15, 2002, by Motown.

Contents

Overview

The compilation album contains 14 love songs and ballads Michael Jackson recorded, with the Jackson 5 or solo, during his Motown tenure. [1] It was released by Motown on January 15, 2002. [1]

Love Songs includes the Jackson 5's "Who's Lovin' You", their cover of Ray Charles' "A Fool for You", [2] and a previously unreleased version of their hit "I'll Be There". [1]

The album also includes Michael Jackson's 1971 single "Got to Be There" and further alternate recordings such as the original mix of his "Call on Me" [1] from Farewell My Summer Love (1973); the pre-dubbed version of this song was also released on the 1995 reissue of Anthology and on Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection (2009). [3]

Track listing

Tracks 1, 2, 7, 11 and 14 performed by the Jackson 5

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Who's Lovin' You" (single version) Smokey Robinson 4:21
2."A Fool for You" Ray Charles 4:34
3."Everybody's Somebody's Fool" Jack Keller, Howard Greenfield 2:57
4."Got to Be There" Elliot Willensky 3:20
5."We're Almost There" Brian Holland, Edward Holland, Jr. 3:42
6."We've Got a Good Thing Going" The Corporation 2:59
7."Maybe Tomorrow" ( Goin' Back to Indiana Version)The Corporation3:24
8."Call on Me" (original mix) Fonce Mizell, Larry Mizell 3:20
9."You Are There" Sam Brown III, Randy Meitzenheimer, Christine Yarian3:22
10."One Day in Your Life"Sam Brown III, Renée Armand4:15
11."If I Don't Love You This Way"Pam Sawyer, Leon Ware3:25
12."Wings of My Love"The Corporation3:17
13."I'll Come Home to You"Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian3:02
14."I'll Be There" (previously unreleased version)The Corporation4:05

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Michael Jackson - Love Songs CD Album". CD Universe. Archived from the original on December 11, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
  2. "Michael Jackson – Love Songs". Discogs. January 15, 2002. Retrieved September 1, 2025.
  3. "2009 - Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection". The Michael Jackson Showcase. Retrieved October 1, 2025.