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Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection is a 71-track triple disc box set commemorating Michael Jackson 's early years with Motown Records . The album features Jackson's four solo LPs from Motown (dating from 1971 to 1975), plus songs that were released after he left the company.[2]
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On June 12, 2009, Universal Music Group reissue label Hip-O Select announced on its Twitter page that the 3-CD set was available for pre-ordering, with an announced shipping date of July 3, the same date the set would be released to retail stores.[3]
The set was released digitally on iTunes on June 30.[4]
Track listing [ edit ]
1.
"Ain't No Sunshine "
Bill Withers
4:09
2.
"I Wanna Be Where You Are "
Leon Ware , Arthur "T-Bone" Ross
3:01
3.
"Girl Don't Take Your Love from Me"
Willie Hutch
3:46
4.
"In Our Small Way"
Beatrice Verdi, Christine Yarian
3:34
5.
"Got to Be There "
Elliot Willensky
3:23
6.
"Rockin' Robin "
Thomas
2:31
7.
"Wings of My Love"
Corporation
3:32
8.
"Maria (You Were the Only One)"
Lawrence Brown, Linda Glover, George Gordy, Allen Story
3:41
9.
"Love Is Here and Now You're Gone "
Holland-Dozier-Holland
2:51
10.
"You've Got a Friend "
Carole King
4:53
11.
"Ben "
Don Black , Walter Scharf
2:44
12.
"The Greatest Show on Earth"
Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino
2:48
13.
"People Make the World Go Round"
Thom Bell , Linda Creed
3:15
14.
"We've Got a Good Thing Going"
The Corporation
2:59
15.
"Everybody's Somebody's Fool"
Ace Adams, Lionel Hampton
2:59
16.
"My Girl "
Smokey Robinson , Ronald White
3:08
17.
"What Goes Around Comes Around"
Levinsky, Stokes, Meyers, Weatherspoon
3:33
18.
"In Our Small Way"
Beatrice Verdi, Christine Yarian
3:39
19.
"Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day "
Henry Cosby , Sylvia Moy , Stevie Wonder
3:21
20.
"You Can Cry on My Shoulder"
Berry Gordy
2:39
21.
"Don't Let It Get You Down" (Original Mix)
Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino, Deke Richards
2:50
22.
"You've Really Got a Hold on Me" (Original Mix)
Smokey Robinson, White, Rogers
3:24
23.
"Melodie" (Original Mix)
Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino, Deke Richards
3:08
24.
"Touch the One You Love" (Original Mix)
Wayne, Clinton
2:50
1.
"With a Child's Heart "
Vicky Basemore, Henry Cosby , Sylvia Moy
3:29
2.
"Up Again"
Freddie Perren , Yarian
2:50
3.
"All the Things You Are "
Oscar Hammerstein II , Jerome Kern
2:59
4.
"Happy " (Love Theme from Lady Sings the Blues )
Michel Legrand , Smokey Robinson
3:25
5.
"Too Young "
Sidney Lippman, Sylvia Dee
3:38
6.
"Doggin' Around"
Lena Agree
2:52
7.
"Johnny Raven"
Billy Page
3:33
8.
"Euphoria"
Leon Ware , Hilliard
2:50
9.
"Morning Glow"
Stephen Schwartz
3:37
10.
"Music and Me"
Mike Cannon, Don Fenceton, Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino
2:38
11.
"We're Almost There "
Holland /Holland
3:42
12.
"Take Me Back"
Holland/Holland
3:24
13.
"One Day in Your Life "
Armand/Brown
4:15
14.
"Cinderella Stay Awhile"
Sutton
3:08
15.
"We've Got Forever"
Willensky
3:10
16.
"Just a Little Bit of You "
Holland/Holland
3:10
17.
"You Are There"
Brown/Meitzenheimer/Yarian
3:21
18.
"Dapper Dan"
D. Fletcher
3:11
19.
"Dear Michael"
Davis/Willensky
2:35
20.
"I'll Come Home to You"
Perren/Yarian
3:02
21.
"Girl You're So Together" (Original Mix)
Keni St. Lewis
2:59
22.
"Farewell My Summer Love" (Original Mix)
Keni St. Lewis
3:37
23.
"Call on Me" (Original Mix)
Fonce Mizell, Larry Mizell
3:21
1.
"When I Come of Age"
W. D. Parks/D. Fletcher/H. Davis
2:37
2.
"Teenage Symphony"
G. Jones/H. Davis/M. McLeod
2:45
3.
"I Hear a Symphony "
Holland-Dozier-Holland
3:01
4.
"Give Me Half a Chance"
C. Davis
3:26
5.
"Love's Gone Bad"
Holland-Dozier-Holland
3:08
6.
"Lonely Teardrops "
B. Gordy /G. Gordy/T. Carlo
2:40
7.
"You're Good for Me"
E. Horan
3:15
8.
"That's What Love Is Made Of"
R. Rogers/W. Robinson/W. Moore
3:24
9.
"I Like You the Way You Are (Don't Change Your Love on Me)"
W. Hutch
2:57
10.
"Who's Lookin' for a Lover"
J. D. Hilliard/L. Ware
2:50
11.
"I Was Made to Love Her "
H. Cosby/L. Hardaway/S. Moy/S. Wonder
3:20
12.
"If'n I Was God"
R. Sherman/R. Sherman
3:02
13.
"To Make My Father Proud" (Original Mix)
Bob Crewe , Larry Weiss
4:11
14.
"Here I Am (Come and Take Me) " (Original Mix)
Al Green , Teenie Hodges
2:45
15.
"Twenty-Five Miles" (Original Mix)
Green, Hodges
3:18
16.
"Don't Let It Get You Down"
Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino, Deke Richards
3:02
17.
"You've Really Got a Hold on Me "
Smokey Robinson , White, Rogers
3:30
18.
"Melodie"
Larson, Marcellino, Richards
3:24
19.
"Touch the One You Love"
Wayne, Clinton
2:48
20.
"Girl You're So Together"
Keni St. Lewis
3:12
21.
"Farewell My Summer Love"
Keni St. Lewis
4:24
22.
"Call on Me"
Fonce Mizell, Larry Mizell
3:39
23.
"Here I Am (Come and Take Me)"
Green, Hodges
2:56
24.
"To Make My Father Proud"
Bob Crewe , Larry Weiss
4:04
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