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"We've Got a Good Thing Going" was previously issued as the B-side to "Got to Be There" 's " I Wanna Be Where You Are" and "In Our Small Way" was also featured on Jackson's previous album Got to Be There.Ĭritical reception Professional ratings Review scores "You Can Cry on My Shoulder" is a mid- tempo song. In 1966, The Jackson 5 won a talent show at Gary's Theodore Roosevelt High School, where they performed "My Girl". "My Girl" has a funk rhythm and the song's score includes some call-and-response interaction, which is similar to what Jackson and his brothers displayed in their Jackson 5 material. For Ben, Jackson recorded a cover of The Temptations' 1964 single, "My Girl", a cover of The Stylistics' 1971 hit "People Make The World Go Round", a cover of Lionel Hampton's "Everybody's Somebody's Fool", a cover of Brenda Holloway's 1965 single, "You Can Cry on My Shoulder" and a cover of Stevie Wonder's 1968 single, "Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day". "What Goes Around Comes Around" has similarities to Jackson's older brother Jackie's single, " Didn't I (Blow Your Mind This Time)", which featured vocals from Jackson and his older brothers. The album's title track, the theme song for the 1972 film of the same name (itself the sequel to the 1971 killer rat film Willard), won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song, losing to " The Morning After" by Maureen McGovern from another 1972 film, The Poseidon Adventure. The album's songs have a tempo ranging from 69 beats per minute on "Ben", to 130 on " Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day". Songwriters for the 10 tracks of Ben include Mel Larson, Jerry Marcellino, Thom Bell, Linda Creed, The Corporation, Smokey Robinson, and Ronald White, among others. It was produced by six people, and executive-produced by Berry Gordy. Recording sessions for Ben began in November 1971, concluding by February 1972 before Jackson's voice began to deepen. than internationally, peaking at number 14 on the Billboard 200 while peaking at number 37 in the U.K. Got to Be There was more successful in the U.S. The album's three singles had a good chart performance on the Billboard Hot 100, with all charting within the top 20 positions on the chart, two peaking within the top 5. The album received generally mixed reviews from contemporary music critics, but was commercially successful worldwide. In January 1972, while still a member of The Jackson 5, Jackson released his first studio album, entitled Got to Be There, under Motown Records. Two of the album's songs were "stripped" in 2009 as part of the three-disc compilation Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection. "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" was planned to be released as the second single from the album, but was cancelled for unspecified reasons. "Ben" also charted within the top 10 in other territories worldwide. The album released one single, the title track " Ben", which was a commercial success on the music charts, topping both the US Billboard Hot 100 and the Australian ARIA charts, giving Jackson his first number-one single domestically and internationally. Internationally, the album was less successful, peaking at number 12 in Canada, while charting within the top 200 positions in Australia and France. Ben, however, was more successful on the music charts than Jackson's previous studio album, peaking within the top 10 on the Billboard 200 in the United States. The album received mixed reviews from contemporary music critics. Ben is the second studio album by American singer Michael Jackson, released by Motown Records on August 4, 1972, while Jackson was still a member of The Jackson 5.
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