Album Summary

The Original Soul Of Michael Jackson is a remix album by American singer Michael Jackson. It features songs recorded early in his career, mainly during the 1970s, then remixed before its release in 1987 by Motown.

While the album claims that it contains music never before released, the only new song available was a re-dubbed cover of Edwin Starr's 1970 hit Twenty-Five Miles, sung by The Jackson Five and solely credited to Michael. The original recording of the song was included on the 2009 set Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection. Some songs were newly edited on the album, including a newly dubbed version of Dancing Machine. Ain't No Sunshine was also slightly different in the vocals and a modern drum machine was added to Twenty-Five Miles. Melodie was planned for a single in an effort to promote the record in the US, but was scrapped for a promo-only single Twenty-Five Miles / Up On The Housetop.