Farewell My Summer Love
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Farewell My Summer Love is a
Album information
Farewell My Summer Love was released by
To give the album a more contemporary sound, Motown remixed the songs and added new musical overdubs. The task of playing the updated sound was given to musicians Tony Peluso, Michael Lovesmith, and Steve Barri. Together with drummer Mike Baird, they recorded new guitar, keyboard, and percussion drum parts for the songs. Upon its release, the album peaked at No. 46 on the US Billboard Top 200 Album chart and No. 9 on the UK Albums Chart and to date has sold approximately one million copies worldwide.[4] On July 9, 1984, the album was certified Gold by the BPI for selling at least 100,000 copies in the United Kingdom.[5]
The title song became a moderate hit, reaching No. 38 on the US Hot 100, and a Top 10 hit in the UK, reaching No. 7. A follow-up single, "Touch the One You Love", was released in the US and backed by "Girl You're So Together", but it failed to chart on the US Hot 100.[citation needed] In the UK, "Girl You're So Together" was released as a single, with "Touch the One You Love" on the B-side, and became a moderate hit, reaching the UK top 40.[6]
For many years, Farewell My Summer Love had not seen a re-release and is considered to be one of Jackson's most obscure albums. The 1995 version of the compilation album Anthology features the song "Farewell My Summer Love" in its 1984 remix version, as well as "Melodie", "Don't Let It Get You Down", "Call on Me" and "To Make My Father Proud" in their original 1973 versions.[7] All nine undubbed versions, as well as the 1984 mixes, were finally released on Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection in June 2009. In 2018, Music on CD reissued the album with all nine tracks remastered.[8]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Don't Let It Get You Down" |
| 3:01 |
2. | "You've Really Got a Hold on Me" | Smokey Robinson | 3:30 |
3. | "Melodie" |
| 3:21 |
4. | "Touch the One You Love" | 2:47 | |
5. | "Girl You're So Together" | Keni St. Lewis | 3:09 |
6. | "Farewell My Summer Love" | St. Lewis | 4:21 |
7. | "Call on Me" | 3:38 | |
8. | "Here I Am (Come and Take Me)" | 2:53 | |
9. | "To Make My Father Proud" | 4:04 |
Singles
- "UK Singles Chart
- "Girl You're So Together" – No. 33 UK Singles Chart
Charts
Chart (1984) | Peak position |
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Australian Albums Chart | 90 |
Canadian Albums Chart[10] | 94 |
Dutch Albums Chart[11] | 47 |
German Albums Chart | 40 |
New Zealand Albums Chart[12] | 50 |
UK Albums Chart[13] | 9 |
US Billboard Top 200 Albums[14] | 46 |
Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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United Kingdom (BPI)[15] | Gold | 100,000^ |
United States | — | 106,000[16] |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
References
- ^ ISBN 9781788400572.
- ^ a b "Farewell My Summer Love". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
- Evening Times. 1984-08-17. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
- ^ Chery, Carl: XXL: Michael Jackson Special Collecters Edition, page 100. American Press.
- ^ "Certified Awards". Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2016-06-11.
- ISBN 0-7552-0091-8.
- ^ Anthology (CD booklet). Michael Jackson. Motown. 1995. pp. 15–16.
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: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link) - ^ "Michael Jackson Farewell My Summer Love – Music on CD". musiconcd.eu. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
- ^ Whitburn, Joel. "Michael Jackson." Top Adult Contemporary 1961-2001. Record Research Inc., Menomonee Falls, WI. p. 124.
- ^ "RPM Volume 40 No. 18, July 07 1984 - RPM". Archived from the original on 2009-06-30.
- ^ "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl.
- ^ "charts.org.nz - New Zealand charts portal". charts.nz.
- ^ "Michael Jackson | full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company.
- ^ "Michael Jackson". Billboard.
- ^ "British album certifications – Michael Jackson – Farewell My Summer Love". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ISBN 9780755200917.