Submitted by intruder127 on Thu, 11/20/2008 - 09:56.
Got this one from youtube.
For All Time
Written and Composed by Steve Porcaro &
Michael Sherwood
So Little Time Music (ASCAP) /
Shecktones Music (ASCAP)
Remixed 10/07
Recorded by Bruce Swedien
Keyboards: Steve Porcaro, David Paich
Guitar: Steve Lukather
Drums: Jeff Porcaro
Additional keyboards: Angelikson Productions
Mixed by Mick Guzauski
Mixing assistant: Tom Bender
Produced by Michael Jackson
previously unreleased track from Thriller sessions
Credits
Tape research: Al Quaglieri, Matthew Kelly and Michael Kull
Audio mastering for CD: Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound, New
Thriller sold an estimated 1 million copies a week after release.
Tracked at Westlake, thriller was completed in eight weeks.
Yetnikoff was miffed that Jackson tracked ("Someone in the Dark")
for the movie ET when working on "Thriller". He demanded $1 million.
Jeff was on four tracks:
The Girl is Mine - Beat it - Human nature - The Lady in my life
"the Girl is Mine".
"Jeff and I got a call to do a track on the album....
Quincy sent the thing to Jeff, "...let's dig this....lets listen" (Jeff).
"We fell out....crackin' up! If I'd had a camera ---the look on Jeff's face, man!"
(Luke)
"Beat It" (EVH didn't know who Q was!)
'They wanted EVH to do a solo...Quincy called and Eddy kept hanging up
on him" (Luke) "I don't think he even got paid for the date!" (Luke)
"One day we had some down time...he said "let's go shopping". We walked outta the studio
to the Beverly center and walking across the street. He bought a watch or
something, and as we walked away she realized who he was."
(GAP-on shopping with Michael)
"Human Nature" found its way onto Thriller by accident.
"Human nature was a big one 'cause ---it happened within months of him leaving the band..."
(Mike). "He had the hook and kept playing it and we were "we wanna do more rock",
but he kept that in his trick back and....." (Luke)
"Toto sent over a couple demos ....." (Q)
"That tune may not have been right for TOTO at the time...or cut to perfection and still not been a hit, and ....
it was a great accomplishment for him (Steve) and a big hit for Michael" (Mike)
Was selected late and replaced a tune called "Carousel".
Final tally 42 million records....... (Yetnikoff estimate)
Submitted by fmrecords on Tue, 08/22/2006 - 08:44.
MICHAEL JACKSON
THRILLER
Released in 1982
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" (Jackson)
"Baby Be Mine" (Rod Temperton)
"The Girl Is Mine" (with Paul McCartney) (Jackson)
"Thriller" (Rod Temperton/Jackson)
"Beat It" (with Eddie Van Halen) (Jackson)
"Billie Jean" (Jackson)
"Human Nature" (John Bettis/Steve Porcaro)
"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" (James Ingram/Quincy Jones)
"The Lady In My Life" (Rod Temperton)
Extra tracks added for 2001 Special Edition
"Someone in the Dark" (originally released on the "E.T. Songbook")
"Billie Jean" (home demo)
"Thriller" (voiceover session with Vincent Price)
"Carousel" (unreleased track, replaced by "Human Nature")
Note: Special Edition also includes interview clips with Quincy Jones and songwriter Rod Temperton
Out takes
"Got the Hots"
"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" (this early version is completely different to the final album recording, also later appeared on Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection)
"Hot Street"
"Nite Line"
"Trouble"
"Who Do You Know?"
"Carousel" (also known as Circus Girl - a truncated version appeared on the Thriller Special Edition.)
TRIVIA
The original name for the Thriller single was Starlight. The name "Starlight" was then changed to "Thriller", the title track known and loved throughout the world.
The original name for Billie Jean was "Not My Lover", since Quincy Jones feared people were going to mix up "Billie Jean" with "Billie Jean King".
Jackson had originally written "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" with his keyboardist Greg Phillinganes. The demo of that version can be heard on Jackson's Ultimate Collection box set. The song was later re-written by Quincy Jones and James Ingram as a more edgy funk-rock staple, rather than the original Stevie Wonder-inspired R&B version.
The album holds the record for the longest stay at #1 on Billboard's Pop Albums (Billboard 200) chart, staying at #1 for a non-consecutive 37 weeks. The most consecutive weeks Jackson spent at the top was 17, on two separate occasions.
At its peak, Thriller sold a million copies a week.
Thriller is considered by many as the first album of the MTV generation.
Thriller is tied for the record for the most top ten singles from an album, with seven. Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. and Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 also contain seven top ten singles, however, Thriller was the first to reach seven.
"Thriller" is ranked #20 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
In July 2006, "Thriller" was named the ninth biggest selling album in British history by the British Phonographic Industry. It was Jackson's second album inside the top ten all time list, with "Bad" at number two behind The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"[4].
Album credits
Anthony Marinelli Synthesizer Programming
David Paich Synthesizer
Dean Parks Guitar
Greg Phillinganes Synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, Keyboards, Handclapping
Greg "Frosty" Smith
Bruce Swedien Engineer, Mixing, Effects
Rod Temperton Arranger
Eddie Van Halen Guitar
Gerald Vinci Concert Master
Dick Zimmerman Photography
Maxine Waters Vocals (Background)
Waters, Julia Vocals (Background)
Andy Engel Sleeve Design
Nancy Donald Art Direction
Lester Cohen Photography
Sam Emerson Photography
Monster X Design
Stephen Vaughan Photography
Ralph Nelson Photography
Mac James Lettering
Bruce Cannon Effects
Lane Art Direction
David E. Williams Guitar
David Foster Synthesizer
LaToya Jackson Vocals (Background)
Vincent Price Rap
Bunny Hull Vocals (Background)
Tom Bahler Keyboards
Brian Banks Synthesizer Programming
Steve Bates Assistant Engineer
David Daoud Coleman Art Direction, Design
JEFF PORCARO DRUMS
Paulinho Da Costa Percussion
Mark Ettel Assistant Engineer
Matt Forger Engineer
Humberto Gatica Engineer
Gary Grant Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Nelson Hayes Stomp Board
Jerry Hey Trumpet, Conductor, Flugelhorn, Horn Arrangements
Paul Jackson, Jr. Guitar
Louis Johnson Bass, Handclapping
Donn Landee Engineer
Becky Lopez Vocals (Background)
Steve Lukather Bass, Guitar
James Ingram Vocals (Background), Handclapping
Janet Jackson Vocals (Background)
Michael Jackson Main Performer
Paul McCartney Performer
Quincy Jones Arranger, Producer
Bill Reichenbach Jr. Trombone
Bill Wolfer Synthesizer
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
Paulinho Da Costa: percussion
Michael Jackson, Nelson Hayes, and Steven Ray: bathroom stomp board
(no one credited for drums)
"Baby Be Mine"
N'dugu Chancler: drums
"The Girl Is Mine"
Jeff Porcaro: drums
"Thriller"
(no one credited for either drums or percussion)
"Beat It"
Jeff Porcaro: drums
Michael Jackson: drum case beater
"Billie Jean"
N'dugu Chancler: drums
"Human Nature"
Jeff Porcaro: drums
Paulinho Da Costa: percussion
"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"
N'dugu Chancler: drums
I remember beat it from michael jackson being huge in the clubs/discos even now when there are retro nights etc it's always on the playlist. Every once in a while i have an urge to see someone from the 80's so i just got some stevie wonder tickets for some up coming concert
Submitted by fmrecords on Wed, 09/27/2006 - 13:56.
My apologies for any omissions on this entry. By the time I was up to the M's I was a bit fried, and I know I should have done a little more searching on this.(Especialy THIS) I didn't have a record at hand or I could have looked in the liner notes.
I will review my other entries now...although I thought they were all pretty thorough, I might be mistaken.
That's why we have this team we do. KQ just slammed another rock-solid home run for the Discography team.
You did WAY more than your fair share on top of the nurses test. Rest easy, hon. Kitty also has a mass of stuff on her plate (ha ha); but she's all up in the middle of this.
I couldn't ask for better "help" or a better team.
INCLUDING Elliott and Saw and all the rest of ya. Glad we know who's who on the record--- That'll work.
T
"when something is @$$-backward, everybody knows it" -Jeff Porcaro (to Modern Drummer circa '83)
Don't worry about it, Fiona :-) I got a little fried after just doing the Newman anthologies, so I also understand! I'm just happy to help out whenever I actually have the album in question (such as with JNH & Friends) - and I only recently got my own copy of Thriller, so I've been enjoying looking through the liners anyway.
~KQ, third-base-girl for the JP Discography Project (T - still love saying that, lol!)
---
"Where else can you expect nothing, and get it?" ~ Jeff Porcaro, 2/1987
Comments
Michael Jackson - For All Time
Got this one from youtube.
For All Time
Written and Composed by Steve Porcaro &
Michael Sherwood
So Little Time Music (ASCAP) /
Shecktones Music (ASCAP)
Remixed 10/07
Recorded by Bruce Swedien
Keyboards: Steve Porcaro, David Paich
Guitar: Steve Lukather
Drums: Jeff Porcaro
Additional keyboards: Angelikson Productions
Mixed by Mick Guzauski
Mixing assistant: Tom Bender
Produced by Michael Jackson
previously unreleased track from Thriller sessions
Credits
Tape research: Al Quaglieri, Matthew Kelly and Michael Kull
Audio mastering for CD: Tom Coyne at Sterling Sound, New
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy3zIe-HFfA
THRILLER: NOTES
(From the BBC Documentary on Radio2)
Thriller sold an estimated 1 million copies a week after release.
Tracked at Westlake, thriller was completed in eight weeks.
Yetnikoff was miffed that Jackson tracked ("Someone in the Dark")
for the movie ET when working on "Thriller". He demanded $1 million.
Jeff was on four tracks:
The Girl is Mine - Beat it - Human nature - The Lady in my life
"the Girl is Mine".
"Jeff and I got a call to do a track on the album....
Quincy sent the thing to Jeff, "...let's dig this....lets listen" (Jeff).
"We fell out....crackin' up! If I'd had a camera ---the look on Jeff's face, man!"
(Luke)
"Beat It" (EVH didn't know who Q was!)
'They wanted EVH to do a solo...Quincy called and Eddy kept hanging up
on him" (Luke) "I don't think he even got paid for the date!" (Luke)
"One day we had some down time...he said "let's go shopping". We walked outta the studio
to the Beverly center and walking across the street. He bought a watch or
something, and as we walked away she realized who he was."
(GAP-on shopping with Michael)
"Human Nature" found its way onto Thriller by accident.
"Human nature was a big one 'cause ---it happened within months of him leaving the band..."
(Mike). "He had the hook and kept playing it and we were "we wanna do more rock",
but he kept that in his trick back and....." (Luke)
"Toto sent over a couple demos ....." (Q)
"That tune may not have been right for TOTO at the time...or cut to perfection and still not been a hit, and ....
it was a great accomplishment for him (Steve) and a big hit for Michael" (Mike)
Was selected late and replaced a tune called "Carousel".
Final tally 42 million records....... (Yetnikoff estimate)
VIDEO ("Beat it") Jeff's Discography
"A hero need not speak, for when he is gone, the whole world will speak for him." (Seen on Myspace)
MICHAEL JACKSON THRILLER
MICHAEL JACKSON
THRILLER
Released in 1982
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" (Jackson)
"Baby Be Mine" (Rod Temperton)
"The Girl Is Mine" (with Paul McCartney) (Jackson)
"Thriller" (Rod Temperton/Jackson)
"Beat It" (with Eddie Van Halen) (Jackson)
"Billie Jean" (Jackson)
"Human Nature" (John Bettis/Steve Porcaro)
"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" (James Ingram/Quincy Jones)
"The Lady In My Life" (Rod Temperton)
Extra tracks added for 2001 Special Edition
"Someone in the Dark" (originally released on the "E.T. Songbook")
"Billie Jean" (home demo)
"Thriller" (voiceover session with Vincent Price)
"Carousel" (unreleased track, replaced by "Human Nature")
Note: Special Edition also includes interview clips with Quincy Jones and songwriter Rod Temperton
Out takes
"Got the Hots"
"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" (this early version is completely different to the final album recording, also later appeared on Michael Jackson: The Ultimate Collection)
"Hot Street"
"Nite Line"
"Trouble"
"Who Do You Know?"
"Carousel" (also known as Circus Girl - a truncated version appeared on the Thriller Special Edition.)
TRIVIA
The original name for the Thriller single was Starlight. The name "Starlight" was then changed to "Thriller", the title track known and loved throughout the world.
The original name for Billie Jean was "Not My Lover", since Quincy Jones feared people were going to mix up "Billie Jean" with "Billie Jean King".
Jackson had originally written "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" with his keyboardist Greg Phillinganes. The demo of that version can be heard on Jackson's Ultimate Collection box set. The song was later re-written by Quincy Jones and James Ingram as a more edgy funk-rock staple, rather than the original Stevie Wonder-inspired R&B version.
The album holds the record for the longest stay at #1 on Billboard's Pop Albums (Billboard 200) chart, staying at #1 for a non-consecutive 37 weeks. The most consecutive weeks Jackson spent at the top was 17, on two separate occasions.
At its peak, Thriller sold a million copies a week.
Thriller is considered by many as the first album of the MTV generation.
Thriller is tied for the record for the most top ten singles from an album, with seven. Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. and Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 also contain seven top ten singles, however, Thriller was the first to reach seven.
"Thriller" is ranked #20 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
In July 2006, "Thriller" was named the ninth biggest selling album in British history by the British Phonographic Industry. It was Jackson's second album inside the top ten all time list, with "Bad" at number two behind The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"[4].
Album credits
Anthony Marinelli Synthesizer Programming
David Paich Synthesizer
Dean Parks Guitar
Greg Phillinganes Synthesizer, Fender Rhodes, Keyboards, Handclapping
Greg "Frosty" Smith
Bruce Swedien Engineer, Mixing, Effects
Rod Temperton Arranger
Eddie Van Halen Guitar
Gerald Vinci Concert Master
Dick Zimmerman Photography
Maxine Waters Vocals (Background)
Waters, Julia Vocals (Background)
Andy Engel Sleeve Design
Nancy Donald Art Direction
Lester Cohen Photography
Sam Emerson Photography
Monster X Design
Stephen Vaughan Photography
Ralph Nelson Photography
Mac James Lettering
Bruce Cannon Effects
Lane Art Direction
David E. Williams Guitar
David Foster Synthesizer
LaToya Jackson Vocals (Background)
Vincent Price Rap
Bunny Hull Vocals (Background)
Tom Bahler Keyboards
Brian Banks Synthesizer Programming
Steve Bates Assistant Engineer
David Daoud Coleman Art Direction, Design
JEFF PORCARO DRUMS
Paulinho Da Costa Percussion
Mark Ettel Assistant Engineer
Matt Forger Engineer
Humberto Gatica Engineer
Gary Grant Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Nelson Hayes Stomp Board
Jerry Hey Trumpet, Conductor, Flugelhorn, Horn Arrangements
Paul Jackson, Jr. Guitar
Louis Johnson Bass, Handclapping
Donn Landee Engineer
Becky Lopez Vocals (Background)
Steve Lukather Bass, Guitar
James Ingram Vocals (Background), Handclapping
Janet Jackson Vocals (Background)
Michael Jackson Main Performer
Paul McCartney Performer
Quincy Jones Arranger, Producer
Bill Reichenbach Jr. Trombone
Bill Wolfer Synthesizer
Drums/Percussion Credits
Just clear this up ... from the liners:
"Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
Paulinho Da Costa: percussion
Michael Jackson, Nelson Hayes, and Steven Ray: bathroom stomp board
(no one credited for drums)
"Baby Be Mine"
N'dugu Chancler: drums
"The Girl Is Mine"
Jeff Porcaro: drums
"Thriller"
(no one credited for either drums or percussion)
"Beat It"
Jeff Porcaro: drums
Michael Jackson: drum case beater
"Billie Jean"
N'dugu Chancler: drums
"Human Nature"
Jeff Porcaro: drums
Paulinho Da Costa: percussion
"P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"
N'dugu Chancler: drums
"The Lady In My Life"
Jeff Porcaro: drums
No.1 Hit Alert
"Beat It" charted to #1 in the US, #3 in the UK and #2 in Germany.
I remember beat it from
I remember beat it from michael jackson being huge in the clubs/discos even now when there are retro nights etc it's always on the playlist. Every once in a while i have an urge to see someone from the 80's so i just got some stevie wonder tickets for some up coming concert
Additional Credit to Thriller
Steve Porcaro, Synthesizer Programming, Synthesizer
David Paich, also played Piano
re: ADDITIONAL credit for Thriller
THANKS for the help!
T
"when something is @$$-backward, everybody knows it" -Jeff Porcaro (to Modern Drummer circa '83)
OOOPS
My apologies for any omissions on this entry. By the time I was up to the M's I was a bit fried, and I know I should have done a little more searching on this.(Especialy THIS) I didn't have a record at hand or I could have looked in the liner notes.
I will review my other entries now...although I thought they were all pretty thorough, I might be mistaken.
Fiona
IT'S OKAY!
FI, AND KQ
FI.... totally unnerstan.
That's why we have this team we do. KQ just slammed another rock-solid home run for the Discography team.
You did WAY more than your fair share on top of the nurses test. Rest easy, hon. Kitty also has a mass of stuff on her plate (ha ha); but she's all up in the middle of this.
I couldn't ask for better "help" or a better team.
INCLUDING Elliott and Saw and all the rest of ya. Glad we know who's who on the record--- That'll work.
T
"when something is @$$-backward, everybody knows it" -Jeff Porcaro (to Modern Drummer circa '83)
Ditto!
Don't worry about it, Fiona :-) I got a little fried after just doing the Newman anthologies, so I also understand! I'm just happy to help out whenever I actually have the album in question (such as with JNH & Friends) - and I only recently got my own copy of Thriller, so I've been enjoying looking through the liners anyway.
~KQ, third-base-girl for the JP Discography Project (T - still love saying that, lol!)
---
"Where else can you expect nothing, and get it?" ~ Jeff Porcaro, 2/1987