Michael Jackson - Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection
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Artist: Michael JacksonEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Extra tracks
CD Release Date: 2009-07-02
Music Label: HIP-O SELECT
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Ain't No Sunshine
- I Wanna Be Where You Are
- Girl Dont Take Your Love From Me
- In Our Small Way
- Got To Be There
- Rockin' Robin
- Wings Of My Love
- Maria (You Were The Only One)
- Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
- You've Got A Friend
- Ben
- Greatest Show On Earth
- People Make The World Go Round
- We've Got A Good Thing Going
- Everybody's Somebody's Fool
- My Girl
- What Goes Around Comes Around
- In Our Small Way
- Shoo Be Doo Be Doo Da Day
- You Can Cry On My Shoulder
- Don't Let It Get You Down (original mix)
- You've Really Got A Hold on Me (original mix)
- Melodie (original mix)
- Touch The One You Love (original mix)
- With A Child's Heart
- Up Again
- All The Things You Are
- Happy (Love Theme From Lady Sings The Blues)
- Too Young
- Doggin' Around
- Euphoria
- Morning Glow
- Johnny Raven
- Music And Me
- Were Almost There
- Take Me Back
- One Day In Your Life
- Cinderella Stay Awhile
- We've Got Forever
- Just A Little Bit Of You
- You Are There
- Dapper-Dan
- Dear Michael
- I'll Come Home To You
- Girl You're So Together (original mix)
- Farewell My Summer Love (original mix)
- Call On Me (original mix)
- When I Come Of Age
- Teenage Symphony
- I Hear A Symphony
- Give Me Half A Chance
- Love's Gone Bad
- Lonely Teardrops
- You're Good For Me
- That's What Love Is Made Of
- I Like You The Way You Are (Don't Change Your Love On Me)
- Who's Lookin' For A Lover
- I Was Made To Love Her
- If 'N I Was God
- To Make My Father Proud (original mix)
- Here I Am (Come And Take Me) (original mix)
- Twenty-Five Miles (original mix)
- Don't Let It Get You Down
- You've Really Got A Hold on Me
- Melodie
- Touch The One You Love
- Girl You're So Together
- Farewell My Summer Love
- Call On Me
- Here I Am (Come And Take Me)
- To Make My Father Proud
Free Music Notes for Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection
Free Music Review: A note on sound quality and packaging
Hit: 5 Stars
First off, I can't say enough about the quality of this music. Michael Jackson was a very gifted individual and all of his music - including everything on this set - is soulful, catchy, and beautiful. It already has and will continue to stand the test of time.
Now about the sound quality of the tracks included in this set:
The original release of "Ben" on CD had a few flaws in my opinion. The title track and "Greatest Show on Earth" actually sounded scratchy/glitchy in areas. It was fairly subtle but it bothered me every time I listened to it. The makers of this 3-disc set have almost perfected these tracks. Although there is still one spot in "Ben" the song where I can hear a small flaw, the rest of the track and "Greatest Show on Earth" have been cleaned up - no more glitchy scratchy sounds. And the flaw in Ben that still remains is concealed quite well. I only noticed it because I was listening hard for it - the particular glitch was much worse in the original CD release.
I also had a complaint about the original CD release of "Forever, Michael." The overall sound quality just wasn't as good as Michael's other childhood solo albums. "We're Almost There" was the worst. While a good song, it sounded like it was recorded with cheap equipment. Again, the makers of this set seem to have worked hard to improve the sound quality to the best of their ability. "Forever, Michael" still doesn't sound as good as the other albums included here, but it's definitely an improvement from the original CD release. It sounds clearer and less gritty.
I didn't notice any differences in "Got to Be There," and I never owned the original CD releases of "Music and Me," "Looking Back to Yesterday," and "Farewell My Summer Love" if they even existed. So the only comment I can make on those albums is that they sound great to me - no flaws that I can notice.
About packaging:
The CDs are tucked into the back of a small hardcover book detailing Michael's young solo career. The book is written by Mark Anthony Neal who is an established writer and an instructor of African-American studies at Duke University. Although he doesn't appear to have known Michael Jackson, he is well-versed in the subject of Michael's young solo career and offers interesting insight and information in this book. Many nice photographs are included as well as images of the original album covers.
My only complaint about the packaging of this set involves the slots included for the CDs. Rather than including a plastic setting or case in the back of the book for all three CDs, the makers of this set only included cardstock envelopes bound into the book. There isn't even any protective cloth - just cardstock. One CD was even stuck at the bottom of its little folder/envelope and I scratched it getting it out. It's a minor scratch but it bothers me that they didn't take the time to provide a safe casing for these CDs. I moved all three CDs to my CD binder, where they will remain forever (when I'm not playing them of course).
Since I bought this set for the music, I give it 5 stars. Great music. Great sound quality. However, if I had bought it for the packaging, I would have given it 3 stars. Great little book but BAD casing.
Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection Poster
"Michael Jackson could make you forget he was so young." So writes Suzee Ikeda, a Motown artist and A&R assistant who was a creative confidante of a teenaged Michael, in her introductory essay to Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection, a new 3-CD set that features every MJ recording released from 1971 to 1975, plus the Motown-era songs that were released after he left the company. At the height of the Jackson 5 mania in 1970-71, a solo career for young Michael was not a given. But when Donny Osmond went solo while staying in the Osmonds family group, Michael went solo as well, and was given material that made him sound more mature. "Got To Be There," his first solo hit, featured a stunning, declamatory phrase that provided the name of this collection. The LP Got To Be There, released in January 1972, was followed by Ben, after the No. 1 hit title song from a film about a pet rat. Ben was first issued with a cover featuring lurid artwork from the film, which was quickly replaced by a simpler image of MJ; our package reproduces both covers in the 48-page booklet. Music And Me was next, featuring a few Adult Contemporary covers, followed by Forever, Michael, which had a harder dance age; it included the now-classic hits "We're Almost There" and "Just A Little Bit Of You." Although MJ and the J5 left Motown in 1975 to go to Epic Records,that wasn't the end of the story. "One Day In Your Life," released in the aftermath of MJ's solo Off The Wall, turned into a No. 1 hit in the U.K. and top 40 AC in the U.S. Following the crazy ride of Thriller, Motown released Farewell My Summer Love, a batch of songs from the vault with contemporary overdubs; the title song went top 10 R&B. There's more: in 1986 Motown issued Looking Back To Yesterday, a collection of more vault masters--some with the J5--that contained further unexpected gems. Hello World has all of that and these extra gems: all nine songs from Farewell My Summer Love are included in their original,undubbed mixes. Plus, we unearthed the original mix of "Twenty-Five Miles"--Michael's cover of the Edwin Starr hit that has previously been available only in a 1987 vault collection. It's all in a splendid, hard-backed 8"x 5.5" package with an introductory essay by Motown's Suzee Ikeda, a main essay by Mark Anthony Neal, pages of annotations, rare photos and repros of the LP jackets. It's deserving of the one of the greatest performers the world has ever known, at any age.Pop Music CDs
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