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“Michael Jackson could make you forget he was so young.”
So writes Suzee Ikeda, a Motown A&R assistant who was a creative confidante of a teenage Michael, in her introductory essay to Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection, a new 3-CD set that features every MJ recording released from 1971 to 1975, plus the Motown-era songs that were released after he left the company.
At the height of Jacksonmania in 1970-71, when everyone in the world, it seemed, was focusing on the hot kids’ group from Gary, Indiana, a solo career for Michael was not necessarily a given. But when 13-year-old Donny Osmond went solo while staying in the Osmonds family group, so did Michael, then turning 14, who was given material that made him sound even wiser and more mature as an artist. “Got To Be There” was his first solo hit, which featured a stunning, declamatory phrase that provided the name of this collection.
The LP Got To Be There, released in January 1972, also included the hits “Rockin’ Robin” and “I Wanna Be Where You Are.” It was followed by Ben, after the hit title song from a film about a pet rat—a song that became an unlikely No. 1 smash for Michael. The album was first issued with a cover featuring lurid artwork from the film, which was quickly replaced by a simpler image of MJ; our package reproduces both covers in the 48 page booklet.
Music And Me was next, an experiment in softening Michael’s sound—the album featured a few Adult Contemporary covers—followed by Forever, Michael. That LP had a harder dance age, and included the now-classic, sample-favorites “We’re Almost There” and “Just A Little Bit Of You.”
Those four albums might have been the end of the story for Michael and Motown, as the J5 left in 1975 to go to Epic Records. In the aftermath of the huge success of MJ’s solo Off The Wall, however, came the compilation One Day In Your Life, whose title song—lifted from Forever, Michael—turned into a No. 1 hit in the U.K. and top 40 AC in the U.S. Following the crazy ride of Thriller, Motown released Farewell My Summer Love, a batch of songs from the vault with contemporary overdubs; the title song went top 10 R&B.
There’s more: in 1986 Motown issued Looking Back To Yesterday, a collection of more vault masters—some with the J5—that contained further unexpected gems.
Hello World has all of that and these extra gems: all nine songs from Farewell My Summer Love are included in their original, undubbed mixes. Plus, we unearthed the original mix of “Twenty-Five Miles”—Michael’s cover of the Edwin Starr hit that has previously been available only in a 1987 vault collection. It’s all in a splendid 8” x 5.5” package with Ms. Ikeda’s intro, a main essay by Mark Anthony Neal, pages of annotations, rare photos and repros of the LP jackets. It’s deserving of the one of the greatest performers the world has ever known, at any age.


Disc 1
1. Ain't No Sunshine
2. I Wanna Be Where You Are
3. Girl Dont Take Your Love From Me
4. In Our Small Way
5. Got To Be There
6. Rockin' Robin
7. Wings Of My Love
8. Maria (You Were The Only One)
9. Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
10. You've Got A Friend
11. Ben
12. Greatest Show On Earth
13. People Make The World Go Round
14. We've Got A Good Thing Going
15. Everybody's Somebody's Fool
16. My Girl
17. What Goes Around Comes Around
18. In Our Small Way
19. Shoo Be Doo Be Doo Da Day
20. You Can Cry On My Shoulder
21. Don't Let It Get You Down (original mix)
22. You've Really Got A Hold on Me (original mix)
23. Melodie (original mix)
24. Touch The One You Love (original mix)
Disc 2
1. With A Child's Heart
2. Up Again
3. All The Things You Are
4. Happy (Love Theme From Lady Sings The Blues)
5. Too Young
6. Doggin' Around
7. Euphoria
8. Morning Glow
9. Johnny Raven
10. Music And Me
11. Were Almost There
12. Take Me Back
13. One Day In Your Life
14. Cinderella Stay Awhile
15. We've Got Forever
16. Just A Little Bit Of You
17. You Are There
18. Dapper-Dan
19. Dear Michael
20. I'll Come Home To You
21. Girl You're So Together (original mix)
22. Farewell My Summer Love (original mix)
23. Call On Me (original mix)
Disc 3
1. When I Come Of Age
2. Teenage Symphony
3. I Hear A Symphony
4. Give Me Half A Chance
5. Love's Gone Bad
6. Lonely Teardrops
7. You're Good For Me
8. That's What Love Is Made Of
9. I Like You The Way You Are (Don't Change Your Love On Me)
10. Who's Lookin' For A Lover
11. I Was Made To Love Her
12. If 'N I Was God
13. To Make My Father Proud (original mix)
14. Here I Am (Come And Take Me) (original mix)
15. Twenty-Five Miles (original mix)
16. Don't Let It Get You Down
17. You've Really Got A Hold on Me
18. Melodie
19. Touch The One You Love
20. Girl You're So Together
21. Farewell My Summer Love
22. Call On Me
23. Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
24. To Make My Father Proud

I saw this at the sticky but sometimes people need to see it post so they'll know what's up, lol.

Timmy84 said:

I didn't even know. I don't even go into the MJ sticky's anymore, too much stuff everywhere.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Nah I understand, lol. There's a lot of mess going on in there anyways.

Another collection? Yea.....

Graycap23 said:

But this is the ultimate Motown box set. All those compilations are bullshit compared to this.

Timmy84 said:

As long as they don't have the Stevie Wonder-produced tracks among them, they ARE bullshit in my book
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Harlepolis said:

I agree with Harlepolis.Why can't they include that 1973 unreleased MJ album produced by Stevie Wonder??

SoulAlive said:

y'all makin me reconsider buying this now, until we get what we really wont

Stevie's in charge, according to Motown. He ain't gonna give it away it seems.

These original mixes of 25 Miles, Farewell My Summer Love etc. - are they previously unreleased? Because the ones we know have all been "80s-ified" as thy were first released to the public then.

Ellie said:

Yes I believe they've never been released to the public before..

SoulAlive said:

As NMuzakNSoul pointed out, Stevie owns that shit so you can forget it.

SoulAlive said:

If you wanna go kidnap Stevie and hold him hostage until he releases the tapes or some hardcore Motown collector becomes generous, we won't see those session tapes released

SoulAlive, how many times do I say this?

MOTOWN OR SONY LEGACY NEEDS TO HIRE ME TO WORK ON REISSUES!

I would've added:
Got To Be There (Single Stereo Version)
Ben (Original Movie Version)
Ain't No Sunshine (Alternate Mix)
We're Almost There (DJ Spinna Mix)
Take Me Back (Single Version)
Farewell My Summer Love (Extended Version)
I've Gotta Be Me

and at least 10 more unreleased tracks

Is there an official word that the Stevie-Michael album was completed? Or did they only do a few songs before scrapping the idea?

If Motown wanted to, they could release a "Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5 Sings Stevie Wonder" album

My Cherie Amour (from Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5)
Don't Know Why I Love You (from ABC)
Never Had A Dream Come True (from ABC)
Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day (from Ben)
With A Child's Heart (from Music And Me)
Superstition (from In Japan!)
You're Supposed To Keep Your Love For Me (from Let's Get Serious)
Let's Get Serious (from Let's Get Serious)
If You Really Love Me (Previously Unreleased)
Yester-Me, Yester-You, Yesterday(Previously Unreleased)
For Once In My Life (Previously Unreleased)
A Place In The Sun (Previously Unreleased)
Uptight (Previously Unreleased)
Fingertips (Previously Unreleased)


you can only dream....

ViintageJunkiie said:

I think it was actually a Jackson 5 album instead of Michael solo and they did quite alot before it was shelved

Dancing Machine was actually supposed to be a solo Michael album but evolved into a Jackson 5 album

bboy87 said:

Why was the album shelved? And I remember reading about Dancing Machine being Michaels album but evolving into a J5 album.

bboy87 said:

I thought this was gonna end with.. "call me" Like you were hatchin' a drastic plan

Cinnie said:

ViintageJunkiie said:

Not sure. Michael talked about it in an issue of Right On Magazine when Thriller had just been released, he didn't know why Motown never released it

bboy87 said:

I'm already wiping on the ninja paint

Cinnie said:

I got my ghetto ninja gear ready!

bboy87 said:

Would you by any chance have the interview?

ViintageJunkiie said:

It was on one of the stickys but I forget who posted it?

ViintageJunkiie said:

Here's one article



from 1984

Thanks!

bboy87 said:

This article makes me want to hear that album even more!