Looking Back to Yesterday is a 1986 compilation album featuring tracks from 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 compilation Boogie.[1]
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.
[edit] Track listing
All songs by Michael Jackson except tracks 2, 3, 4, 7, 9 & 11 which are by The Jackson 5; all tracks produced by Hal Davis except track 6 (Merry Marcellino and Mel Larson) and 12 (Bob Crewe).
| Writer(s) |
| 1. |
"When I Come of Age" (recorded 1973[3]) |
W.D.Parks/D.Fletcher/H.Davis |
2:37 |
| 2. |
"Teenage Symphony" (recorded November 1972 - April 1973[4]) |
G.Jones/H.Davis/M.McLeod |
2:45 |
| 3. |
"I Hear a Symphony" (originally recorded by Diana Ross & The Supremes; recorded in January 1970 during "ABC" sessions) |
Holland-Dozier-Holland |
3:01 |
| 4. |
"Give Me Half a Chance" (recorded in June 1970; Third Album outtake[4]) |
C.Davis |
3:26 |
| 5. |
"Love's Gone Bad" (recorded in August 1972 during Skywriter sessions[4]; originally released in longer form on Boogie) |
Holland-Dozier-Holland |
3:08 |
| 6. |
"Lonely Teardrops" (original version by Jackie Wilson; recorded in August 1972) |
B.Gordy/G.Gordy/T.Carlo |
2:40 |
| 7. |
"You're Good For Me" (recorded December 1973[3]) |
E.Horan |
3:15 |
| 8. |
"That's What Love Is Made Of" (originally by The Miracles; recorded in December 1971, Got to Be There outtake[4]) |
R.Rogers/W.Robinson/W.Moore |
3:24 |
| 9. |
"I Like You The Way You Are (Don't Change Your Love On Me)" (Recorded March - May 1971 at the Motown Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California.) |
W.Hutch |
2:57 |
| 10. |
"Who's Lookin' For a Lover" (Recorded December 1972 at the Motown Recording Studios, Los Angeles, California.) |
J.D.Hilliard/L.Ware |
2:50 |
| 11. |
"I Was Made to Love Her" (originally by Stevie Wonder, Recorded in December 1969 during "ABC" sessions) |
H.Cosby/L.Hardaway/S.Moy/S.Wonder |
3:20 |
| 12. |
"If'n I Was God" (originally by Bobby Goldsboro, Recorded April 1973 at the Motown Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California.) |
R.Sherman/R.Sherman |
3:02 |
[edit] Singles
Love's Gone Bad (b/w I Hear a Symphony) (released as a promo single in Canada)
[edit] References
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