Looking Back to Yesterday is a compilation album released on February 11, 1986, featuring tracks from American singer Michael Jackson during his tenure at Motown in the late 1960s and early 1970s, both by himself and with 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, longer versions had already been released in 1979 on the Jackson 5 compilation Boogie.[1]
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| Released | February 11, 1986 | |||
| Recorded | 1969–1973 | |||
| Studio | Motown Recording Studio (Los Angeles, California) | |||
| Genre | R&B | |||
| Length | 36:46 | |||
| Label | Motown | |||
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The album was re-released in August 1991 and re-titled Looking Back to Yesterday: A Young Michael and sold over half a million copies.[2] It was re-released again as part of Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection in 2009.
Track listing
editAll songs by Michael Jackson except tracks 2, 3, 4, 7, 9 and 11, which are by The Jackson 5; all tracks produced by Hal Davis except track 6 (Jerry Marcellino and Mel Larson) and 12 (Bob Crewe). All writer info found in the Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection (2009) liner notes.[3]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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| 1. | "When I Come of Age" (recorded March 1972 – 1973, during the Jackson 5's G.I.T.: Get It Together sessions, at the Motown Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California[4]) | Weldon Dean Parks/Don Fletcher/Hal Davis | 2:37 |
| 2. | "Teenage Symphony" (recorded November 1972 – April 1973, during G.I.T.: Get It Together and Dancing Machine sessions[3]) | Gloria Jones/Hal Davis/Marilyn McLeod | 2:45 |
| 3. | "I Hear a Symphony" (originally recorded by Diana Ross & The Supremes; recorded January 1970, during ABC sessions) | Holland-Dozier-Holland | 3:01 |
| 4. | "Give Me Half a Chance" (recorded December 1969 – June 1970, during ABC and Third Album sessions, mixed 1971[3]) | Clifton Davis | 3:26 |
| 5. | "Love's Gone Bad" (Originally recorded by Chris Clark, recorded August 1972, mixed early 1973, during the Jackson 5's Skywriter sessions;[3] originally released in longer form in 1979's Boogie) | Holland-Dozier-Holland | 3:08 |
| 6. | "Lonely Teardrops" (original version by Jackie Wilson; recorded July – August 1972) | Berry Gordy, Jr./Gwen Gordy/Tyran Carlo | 2:40 |
| 7. | "You're Good for Me" (recorded December 1973, during G.I.T.: Get It Together sessions[4]) | Eddie Horan | 3:15 |
| 8. | "That's What Love Is Made Of" (originally by The Miracles; recorded December 1969 & January 1970 – December 1971, during the Jackson 5's Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 and ABC sessions, mixed 1971, Got to Be There sessions and outtake[3]) | Robert Rogers/William Robinson/Warren Moore | 3:24 |
| 9. | "I Like You the Way You Are (Don't Change Your Love on Me)" (recorded March and May 1971 – 1972, during Maybe Tomorrow sessions) | Willie Hutch | 2:57 |
| 10. | "Who's Lookin' for a Lover" (recorded December 1972 – 1973, during Music & Me sessions) | Jacqueline D. Hilliard/Leon Ware | 2:50 |
| 11. | "I Was Made to Love Her" (originally by Stevie Wonder, recorded December 1969 and 1972, during ABC sessions, originally released in longer form in 1979's Boogie) | Henry Cosby/Lula Hardaway/Sylvia Moy/Stevie Wonder | 3:20 |
| 12. | "If'n I Was God" (originally by Bobby Goldsboro, recorded April 11 – May 1973, during Music & Me and the Jackson 5 G.I.T.: Get It Together sessions) | Robert Sherman/Richard Sherman | 3:02 |
Singles
edit"Love's Gone Bad" (b/w "I Hear a Symphony") (released as a promotional single in Canada).[5]
References
edit- ^ "Michael Jackson | Looking Back To Yesterday - Motown, 1986". Jackson5abc.com. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
- ^ [1] Archived September 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b c d e Hello World: The Solo Motown Albums, pg. 34.
- ^ a b "Michael Jackson | When I Come Of Age". Jackson5abc.com. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
- ^ https://www.discogs.com/release/9433188-Michael-Jackson-Loves-Gone-Bad [bare URL]