Farewell My Summer Love

Farewell My Summer Love is a compilation of archived Michael Jackson recordings from January to October 1973.[1] The album was released by Motown Records in the U.S. on May 15, 1984.

Farewell My Summer Love
Compilation album by
Michael Jackson
ReleasedMay 15, 1984
RecordedJanuary – October 1973[1]
1984 (overdubs)
StudioMotown Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California)[1]
Sound Factory Studio (Hollywood, Los Angeles)[1]
Genre
Length31:00
LabelMotown
Producer
Michael Jackson chronology
18 Greatest Hits
(1983)		 Farewell My Summer Love
(1984)		 Looking Back to Yesterday
(1986)
Singles from Farewell My Summer Love
  1. "Farewell My Summer Love"
    Released: May 1984
  2. "Girl You're So Together"
    Released: 1984
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]

Album information

The nine songs featured on the album were reportedly lost by Motown but rediscovered in 1984.[3] To give the album a more contemporary sound, Motown remixed the songs and added all 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. The album reached No. 46 on Billboard's pop album chart and No. 9 on the UK Albums Chart and sold over three 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 Top 40 hit in the US, reaching No. 38, and a Top 10 hit in the United Kingdom, reaching No. 7. At the time, Jackson was riding high on the success of his best-selling album Thriller. 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. In the UK, however, "Girl You're So Together" was released as a single, with "Touch the One You Love" on the B-side, and became a top 40 hit.[6]

For many years, Farewell My Summer Love had not seen an official re-release and is considered to be one of Jackson's rarest albums, although the title track is available on several of Jackson's greatest hits collections. In particular, the 1995 version of Anthology features the song "Farewell My Summer Love" in its 1984 remix, 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 the nine tracks remastered.[8]

Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Don't Let It Get You Down"
3:01
2."You've Really Got a Hold on Me"Smokey Robinson3:30
3."Melodie"
  • Larson
  • Marcellino
  • Richards
3:21
4."Touch the One You Love"
2:47
5."Girl You're So Together"Keni St. Lewis3:09
6."Farewell My Summer Love"St. Lewis4:21
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

Charts
Chart (1984) Peak
position
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 200[14] 46

Certifications
Region CertificationCertified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)[15] Gold 100,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References
  1. Lecocq, Richard; Allard, François (2018). "Bad". Michael Jackson All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. London, England: Cassell. ISBN 9781788400572.
  2. "Farewell My Summer Love". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
  3. "Odds 'n' Ends". Evening Times. 1984-08-17. Retrieved 2010-11-12.
  4. Chery, Carl: XXL: Michael Jackson Special Collecters Edition, page 100. American Press.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 2016-06-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. Halstead, Craig; Chris Cadman (2003). Michael Jackson: The Solo Years. Authors OnLine. ISBN 0-7552-0091-8.
  7. Anthology (CD booklet). Michael Jackson. Motown. 1995. pp. 15–16.CS1 maint: others (link)
  8. "Michael Jackson Farewell My Summer Love – Music on CD". musiconcd.eu. Retrieved 2018-11-27.
  9. Whitburn, Joel. "Michael Jackson." Top Adult Contemporary 1961-2001. Record Research Inc., Menomonee Falls, WI. p. 124.
  10. "RPM Volume 40 No. 18, July 07 1984 - RPM".
  11. "Dutch Charts - dutchcharts.nl". dutchcharts.nl.
  12. "charts.org.nz - New Zealand charts portal". charts.nz.
  13. "Michael Jackson | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company". www.officialcharts.com.
  14. "Michael Jackson". Billboard.
  15. "British album certifications – Michael Jackson – Farewell My Summer Love". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 3 January 2021. Select albums in the Format field. Select Gold in the Certification field. Type Farewell My Summer Love in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
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