Baby Be Mine (Michael Jackson song)
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| "Baby Be Mine" | |
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| Song by Michael Jackson | |
| from the album Thriller | |
| A-side | "Human Nature" |
| Released | November 29, 1982 |
| Recorded | 1982 |
| Studio | Westlake (Los Angeles, California) |
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| Length | 4:20 |
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| Songwriter | Rod Temperton |
| Producer | Quincy Jones |
| Audio sample | |
"Baby Be Mine" is a song by American singer-songwriter Michael Jackson which was written by Rod Temperton and produced by Quincy Jones.[1][2] It is included on the Thriller album by Jackson and along with "The Lady in My Life" is one of only two songs on the project that wasn't initially released as a single.[3] However, the song was the B-side of two of Jackson's singles: for the 1983 release of "Human Nature", as well as for "I Just Can't Stop Loving You", the lead single from Bad in 1987.
In a conversation with publication Vulture that was later adapted into a Time retrospective on Thriller, producer Jones mentioned the record paid homage to jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.[4] Jones said that "Baby Be Mine" was "the best example of me trying to feed the musical principles of the past — I’m talking about bebop."[4] “Getting the young kids to hear bebop is what I’m talking about,” he said. “Jazz is at the top of the hierarchy of music because the musicians learned everything they could about music.”[4][5][6] Billboard described the song as "...upbeat, danceable and punctuated by twittering keyboards and punchy horn fills."[7]
