Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection

Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection is a 71-track triple disc box set commemorating Michael Jackson's early years with Motown. The album features Jackson's four solo LPs from Motown (dating from 1971 to 1975), plus songs that were released after he left the label.

Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection
Box set by Michael Jackson
Released	September 1, 2009
Length	233:02
Label	Hip-O Select Motown
Producer	Various
Michael Jackson chronology
The Definitive Collection (2009) Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection (2009) The Remix Suite (2009)

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Release dates

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.

Track listing

Disc 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

• Tracks 1–10 from the album Got to Be There
• Tracks 11–20 from the album Ben
  • Track 18 contains a studio countdown not released on the original album.
• Tracks 21 and 23 originally released on Anthology: The Best of Michael Jackson

Disc 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

• Tracks 1–10 from the album Music & Me
  • The track order of 7–9 is different from the original release.
• Tracks 11–20 from the album Forever, Michael
• Track 23 originally released on Anthology: The Best of Michael Jackson

Disc 3

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
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

• Tracks 1–12 from the compilation Looking Back to Yesterday
• Track 15 released in remixed form on The Original Soul of Michael Jackson
• Tracks 16–24 from the compilation Farewell My Summer Love

External links

• Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection on Hip-O Select