Come and Get It: The Rare Pearls

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Come And Get It: The Rare Pearls
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ReleasedAugust 28, 2012
Recorded1969–1974
Genre
Length1:42:06
Label Motown
The Jackson 5 chronology
Live at the Forum
(2010)
Come And Get It: The Rare Pearls
(2012)

Come And Get It: The Rare Pearls is a compilation album of previously unreleased tracks by American family group The Jackson 5, which was released digitally on August 28, 2012 [1] and physically on September 18, 2012. [2]

Contents

Background

This compilation contains unreleased songs, recorded by the group during their tenure on the Motown Records label. Some of them are cover versions (Randy Newman's "Mama Told Me Not to Come", Traffic's "Feelin' Alright" and labelmates The Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love"), and some of the tracks are alternate versions of already released songs (a longer version of "That's How Love Is" and the demo version of "Mama's Pearl" which was known as "Guess Who's Making Whoopie With Your Girlfriend").

Marketing

In November 2009, Motown Records released I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters , a selection of unreleased tracks by the Jackson 5. [3] It coincided with the 40th anniversary of their debut single on the label ("I Want You Back" b/w "Who's Lovin' You"), [4] and closely followed the release of the documentaryconcert film Michael Jackson's This Is It . [5] The physical version of this compilation was released on September 18, 2012, [2] the same day as Michael Jackson's Bad 25 . [6]

Track listing

Disc 1
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."(We're the) Music Makers" Arthur Ross, Doug Gibbs 1:00
2."If the Shoe Don't Fit" Berry Gordy, Alphonso Mizell, Freddie Perren, Deke Richards 3:18
3."Come and Get It (Love's on the Fire)" Deke Richards, Freddie Perren, Alphonso Mizell 3:12
4."I Got a Sure Thing" William Bell, Booker T. Jones 3:21
5."After You Leave Girl" Bobby Taylor 2:38
6."Mama Told Me Not to Come" Randy Newman 3:04
7."Iddinit" The Corporation 3:47
8."Since I Lost My Baby" William Robinson, Warren Moore 2:52
9."Keep an Eye" Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson 3:08
10."Movin'" Jackie DeShannon, Jimmy Holiday, Randy Myers3:23
11."Feelin' Alright" (studio version) Dave Mason 3:13
12."You Better Watch Out"Bonnie LeGrande, Lorraine Durham3:06
13."I'm Your Sunny One (He's My Sunny Boy)"Robinson2:49
14."Someone's Standing In My Love Light" Kathy Wakefield, Annette Tucker 2:52
Disc 2
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."If You Want Heaven"Wakefield, Tucker3:07
2."You Can't Hurry Love" Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Edward Holland Jr. 2:50
3."Keep Off the Grass"Richards3:08
4."Going My Way"Donald Daniels, Theresa McFaddin, Richard Hutch3:57
5."Makin' Life a Little Easier for You"Richards, Perren, Mizell, Berry Gordy 3:18
6."Up on the Roof" Gerry Goffin, Carole King 3:07
7."If I Can't Nobody Can"Perren, Christine Yarian2:45
8."Our Love"Richards3:25
9."I Can't Get Enough of You"Eddie Horan2:48
10."Cupid" Clay Drayton, Tamy Smith2:54
11."Let's Go Back to Day One" Patrice Holloway, Gloria Jones 3:02
12."Would Ya Would Ya Baby"Perren3:57
13."Love Trip"Jack Perricone, Doug McClure3:07
14."Label Me Love"Clay McMurray, John Glover, James Dean3:31
15."Jumbo Sam"Mel Larson, Joe Marcellino, Don Fenceton3:05
16."That's How Love Is" (Original Complete Version)Richards, Perren, Mizell3:25
17."If I Have to Move a Mountain" (Original Complete Version)Richards, Perren, Mizell, Gordy4:47
18."Mama's Pearl" (Demo)Richards, Perren, Mizell, Gordy4:10

Cover versions

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