Looking Back to Yesterday

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Looking Back to Yesterday
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Compilation album by
Michael Jackson
ReleasedFebruary 11, 1986
Recorded1969–1973
StudioMotown Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California
Length36:46
LabelMotown
ProducerHal Davis
(except where noted)
Michael Jackson chronology
Farewell My Summer Love
(1984) 		Looking Back to Yesterday
(1986) 		Anthology
(1986)

Looking Back to Yesterday is a 1986 compilation album featuring a collection of 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.

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). All writer info found in the Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection liner notes.[3]

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."When I Come of Age" (recorded March 1972 – 1973, during G.I.T.: Get It Together sessions, at the Motown Recording Studio, Los Angeles, California[4])Weldon Dean Parks/Don Fletcher/Hal Davis2:37
2."Teenage Symphony" (recorded November 1972 – April 1973, during G.I.T.: Get It Together & Dancing Machine sessions[3])Gloria Jones/Hal Davis/Marilyn McLeod2:45
3."I Hear a Symphony" (originally recorded by Diana Ross & The Supremes; recorded January 1970, during ABC sessions)Holland-Dozier-Holland3:01
4."Give Me Half a Chance" (recorded December 1969 – June 1970, during ABC & Jackson 5: Third Album sessions, mixed 1971[3])Clifton Davis3:26
5."Love's Gone Bad" (recorded August 1972, mixed Early 1973, during Skywriter sessions;[3] originally released in longer form on Boogie)Holland-Dozier-Holland3:08
6."Lonely Teardrops" (original version by Jackie Wilson; recorded July – August 1972)Berry Gordy, Jr./Gwen Gordy/Tyran Carlo2:40
7."You're Good For Me" (recorded December 1973, during G.I.T.: Get It Together[4])Eddie Horan3:15
8."That's What Love Is Made Of" (originally by The Miracles; recorded December 1969 & January 1970 – December 1971, during Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 & ABC sessions, mixed 1971, Got To Be There sessions & Outtake[3])Robert Rogers/William Robinson/Warren Moore3:24
9."I Like You The Way You Are (Don't Change Your Love On Me)" (recorded March & May 1971 – 1972, during Maybe Tomorrow sessions)Willie Hutch2:57
10."Who's Lookin' For a Lover" (recorded December 1972 – 1973, during Music & Me sessions)Jacqueline D. Hilliard/Leon Ware2:50
11."I Was Made to Love Her" (originally by Stevie Wonder, recorded December 1969 & 1972, during ABC sessions)Henry Cosby/Lula Hardaway/Sylvia Moy/Stevie Wonder3:20
12."If'n I Was God" (originally by Bobby Goldsboro, recorded April 11 – May 1973, during Music & Me & G.I.T.: Get It Together sessions)Robert Sherman/Richard Sherman3:02

Singles[]

"Love's Gone Bad" (b/w "I Hear a Symphony") (released as a promo single in Canada)

References[]

  1. ^ "Michael Jackson | Looking Back To Yesterday - Motown, 1986". Jackson5abc.com. Retrieved 2012-02-29.
  2. ^ [1] Archived September 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Hello World: The Solo Motown Albums, pg. 34.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b "Michael Jackson | When I Come Of Age". Jackson5abc.com. Retrieved 2012-02-29.

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