The Motown Years
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The Motown Years (also known as The Motown Years 50) is a 3-disc compilation
Motown Records and Universal Music Group to celebrate Jackson's 50th birthday. The 50-track album features all of the hits through the Motown years from both the Jackson 5 (like "ABC", "I Want You Back", "Never Can Say Goodbye") and Michael's solo material (including "You've Got a Friend", "Ben", "Ain't No Sunshine" and "One Day in Your Life"), all of them released during their tenure with Motown (1969–1975), with the exception of "Farewell My Summer Love" and "Girl You're So Together", which were released in 1984, long after Jackson and the group had left the company.[1][2]
Unlike Motown's previous Jackson 5 compilations, the 1995 4-disc B-sides "I'm So Happy" and "Love Song", both of which previously appeared on the 2000 version of The Jackson 5's Anthology (re-released with the title Gold in 2005), and also the 2001 "Two Classic Albums/One CD" series, as bonus tracks on Maybe Tomorrow and Lookin' Through the Windows, respectively.
A Chinese re-issue with different track selection was released on August 29, 2022 (what would've been Michael Jackson's 64th birthday) to celebrate 50th anniversary of Jackson's first solo album Got to Be There.[3]
Track listing
International standard edition
No. | Title | Writer(s) | First appeared on | Length |
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1. | " I'll Be There " | Berry Gordy Jr.; Bob West; Hal Davis; Willie Hutch | Third Album | 3:59 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | First appeared on | Length |
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1. | " Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" | Haven Gillespie; J. Fred Coots | Jackson 5 Christmas Album (1970) | 2:25 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | First appeared on | Length |
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1. | " Ben) | Don Black; Walter Scharf | Ben | 2:48 |
10. | "I Wanna Be Where You Are" | Arthur Ross; Leon Ware | Got to Be There | 3:00 |
11. | "Girl You're So Together" (1984 mix) | Kenny Lewis, Kenneth Melbourne | Farewell My Summer Love | 3:11 |
12. | "We're Almost There" | Brian Holland; Eddie Holland | Forever, Michael | 3:47 |
13. | "Wings of My Love" | The Corporation | Got to Be There | 3:24 |
14. | "Girl Don't Take Your Love from Me" | Willie Hutch | Got to Be There | 3:50 |
15. | "Music and Me" | Donald Fenceton; Jerry Marcellino; Mel Larson; Mike Cannon | Music & Me (1973) | 2:40 |
16. | "Ain't No Sunshine" (originally by Bill Withers) | Bill Withers | Got to Be There | 4:10 |
Chinese limited re-release (2022)
No. | Title | Writer(s) | First appeared on | Length |
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1. | "Big Boy" | Ed Silvers | non-album single | 2:59 |
2. | "I Want You Back" | The Corporation | Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 | 3:00 |
3. | "Who's Loving You" | Smokey Robinson | Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 | 4:03 |
4. | "Can You Remember" | Thom Bell, William Hart | Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 | 3:08 |
5. | "Stand!" | Sylvester Stewart | Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 | 2:36 |
6. | "ABC" | The Corporation | ABC | 2:56 |
7. | "The Love You Save" | The Corporation | ABC | 3:00 |
8. | "La La (Means I Love You)" | Thom Bell, William Hart | ABC | 3:29 |
9. | "I'll Bet You" | George Clinton, Sidney Barnes, Theresa Lindsey | ABC | 3:17 |
10. | "It's Your Thing" | Ronald Isley, O'Kelly Isley Jr., Rudolph Isley | Soulsation! | 3:42 |
11. | "I'll Be There" | Berry Gordy, Bob West, Hal Davis, Willie Hutch | Third Album | 3:58 |
12. | "Goin' Back to Indiana" | The Corporation | Third Album | 3:31 |
13. | "Mama's Pearl" | The Corporation | Third Album | 3:09 |
14. | "Darling Dear" | George Horgay Gordy, Robert Gordy, Allen Story | Third Album | 2:38 |
15. | "Give Love on Christmas Day" | The Corporation | Christmas Album | 3:04 |
16. | "Maybe Tomorrow" | The Corporation | Maybe Tomorrow | 4:42 |
17. | "Never Can Say Goodbye" | Clifton Davis | Maybe Tomorrow | 2:59 |
18. | "It's Great to Be Here" | The Corporation | Maybe Tomorrow | 3:00 |
19. | "Sugar Daddy" | The Corporation | Greatest Hits | 2:30 |
20. | "Feelin' Alright" (studio version) | Dave Mason | Goin' Back to Indiana / Come and Get It: The Rare Pearls | 3:11 |
21. | "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" | Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson | Lookin' Through the Windows | 2:30 |
22. | "Lookin' Through the Windows" | Clifton Davis | Lookin' Through the Windows | 3:45 |
23. | "Doctor My Eyes" | Jackson Browne | Lookin' Through the Windows | 3:14 |
24. | "Love Song" | The Corporation, Christine Yarian | non-album single | 3:25 |
Total length: | 77:46 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | First appeared on | Length |
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1. | "Skywriter" | Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino | Skywriter | 3:10 |
2. | "Hallelujah Day" | Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian | Skywriter | 2:49 |
3. | "Touch" | Pam Sawyer, Frank Wilson | Skywriter | 3:01 |
4. | "Corner of the Sky" | Stephen Schwartz | Skywriter | 3:31 |
5. | "Superstition" (live in Japan) | Stevie Wonder | In Japan! | 2:54 |
6. | "Get It Together" (alternative version) | Hal Davis, Donald Fletcher, Berry Gordy, Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino | G.I.T.: Get It Together | 2:47 |
7. | "Hum Along and Dance" | Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield | G.I.T.: Get It Together | 8:35 |
8. | "It's Too Late to Change the Time" | Pam Sawyer, Leon Ware | G.I.T.: Get It Together | 3:56 |
9. | "Dancing Machine" (uncut version) | Hal Davis, Donald Fletcher, Dean Parks | G.I.T.: Get It Together | 4:25 |
10. | "I Am Love" | Don Fenceton, Jerry Marcellino, Mel Larson, Ronnie Rancifer | Dancing Machine | 7:29 |
11. | "Whatever You Got, I Want" | Gene Marcellino, Jerry Marcellino, Mel Larson | Dancing Machine | 2:57 |
12. | "The Life of the Party" | Clarence Drayton, Hal Davis, Tamy Smith | Dancing Machine | 2:34 |
13. | "You're My Best Friend" | Sam Brown, Christine Yarian | Joyful Jukebox Music | 3:25 |
14. | "We're Here to Entertain You" | Hal Davis, Nita Garfield, Charlotte O'Hara | Joyful Jukebox Music | 3:03 |
15. | "Buttercup" | Stevie Wonder | I Want You Back! Unreleased Masters | 3:53 |
16. | "Forever Came Today" (alternative version) | Holland–Dozier–Holland | Moving Violation | 6:12 |
17. | "Body Language (Do the Love Dance)" | Hal Davis, Donald Fletcher | Moving Violation | 4:07 |
18. | "All I Do Is Think of You" | Michael Lovesmith, Brian Holland | Moving Violation | 3:15 |
19. | "Breezy" | Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino | Moving Violation | 3:38 |
20. | "Joyful Jukebox Music" | Tom Bee, Michael Edward Campbell | Joyful Jukebox Music | 3:16 |
Total length: | 78:57 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | First appeared on | Length |
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1. | "Ain't No Sunshine" | Bill Withers | Got to Be There | 4:11 |
2. | "I Wanna Be Where You Are" | Arthur "T-Boy" Ross, Leon Ware | Got to Be There | 3:01 |
3. | "Got to Be There" | Elliot Willensky | Got to Be There | 3:23 |
4. | "Rockin' Robin" | Leon Rene | Got to Be There | 2:32 |
5. | "Maria (You Were the Only One)" | Lawrence Brown, Linda Glover, George Gordy, Allen Story | Got to Be There | 3:40 |
6. | "Ben" | Walter Scharf, Don Black | Ben | 2:46 |
7. | "People Make the World Go 'Round" | Thom Bell, Linda Creed | Ben | 3:17 |
8. | "We've Got a Good Thing Going" | The Corporation | Ben | 3:03 |
9. | "With a Child's Heart" | Sylvia Moy, Henry Cosby, Vicki Basemore | Music & Me | 3:33 |
10. | "Happy" | Michel Legrand, Smokey Robinson | Music & Me | 3:26 |
11. | "Morning Glow" | Stephen Schwartz | Music & Me | 3:37 |
12. | "Music and Me" | Jerry Marcellino, Mel Larson, Don Fenceton, Mike Cannon | Music & Me | 2:38 |
13. | "Little Christmas Tree" | George Clinton, Artie Wayne | A Motown Christmas | 3:38 |
14. | "Farewell My Summer Love" (original 1973 mix) | Keni St. Lewis | Farewell My Summer Love | 3:37 |
15. | "Call on Me" (original 1973 mix) | Fonce Mizell, Larry Mizell | Farewell My Summer Love | 3:21 |
16. | "Girl You're So Together" (original 1973 mix) | Keni St. Lewis | Farewell My Summer Love | 2:59 |
17. | "Make Tonight All Mine" (original 1973 mix) | Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian | One Day in Your Life | 3:03 |
18. | "If I Don't Love You This Way" (1987 remix) | Leon Ware, Pam Sawyer | The Original Soul of Michael Jackson | 3:25 |
19. | "We're Almost There" (DJ Spinna remix radio edit) | Eddie Holland, Brian Holland | Forever, Michael | 4:25 |
20. | "Just a Little Bit of You" | Eddie Holland, Brian Holland | Forever, Michael | 3:12 |
21. | "One Day in Your Life" | Sam Brown, Renée Armand | Forever, Michael | 4:18 |
22. | "Dear Michael" | Hal Davis, Elliot Willensky | Forever, Michael | 2:39 |
23. | "If 'n I Was God" (original 1973 mix) | Robert Sherman, Richard Sherman | Looking Back to Yesterday | 4:06 |
Total length: | 77:50 |
Charts
Weekly charts
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Year-end charts
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Certifications
Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
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Australia (ARIA)[23] | Gold | 35,000^ |
United Kingdom (BPI)[24] | Gold | 100,000^ |
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone. |
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- ^ "British album certifications – Jackson Five – The Motown Years". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved October 24, 2022. Select albums in the Format field. Select Gold in the Certification field. Type The Motown Years in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
External links
- The Motown Years at Discogs (list of releases)