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"I Need You"

Date range confirmed in the “Soulsation!” album liner notes (archived) (“Recorded January 1973”)

“Black & White” magazine (Summer 1996) (archived mirror) (Confirmed in Chris Cadman’s “Michael Jackson the Maestro”):

“Black & White”: How did the recording of this other song on which Michael sings -"I Need You"- go?

Taj: We made him listen to the song and he loved it. He just wanted TJ to re-sing one or two sentences and put more emotion in it. So TJ said that was a great idea but he wanted Michael to how him how to do it. So we all went to the studio where Michael was recording his own songs five minutes away from where we were. We gave him a call and he came. He helped TJ all the way through the recording of his part and he also got the idea for the voice inflexions in the end. The producer of the track then asked him if he would sing at the end of the song and Michael said "of course." When Michael started singing, the producer started crying because it was a dream come true for him; to see Michael Jackson singing one of his songs.

Taj Jackson, Twitter (@tajjackson3) (January 3, 2012) (mirror) (archived mirror)

At first my brothers and I didn't want to record "I Need You'. It was my uncle who said we need songs like this on the album. So we did it.

@Ramona_Pritchet: Why wasn't MJ in I Need U?”

Taj: Scheduling. :-(