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"Label Me Love"

Date range confirmed in the “Come and Get It: The Rare Pearls” album’s liner notes (archived) (“Recorded May 1973”)

Clay McMurray, writer/producer, “Billboard” (July 2, 2009) (archived)

I am a former writer, producer, engineer for Motown Records. I had the honor of working with Michael and Jermaine Jackson while they were contracted to the label during the early 70's both in Detroit and Los Angeles. I wrote and produced a song on Michael alone entitled “Label Me Love”...

Michael himself was an enormous talent as a kid not yet in his teens, and I say this because the song I recorded with him I found to be in a tad too high a key. Initially, Mike had a problem adjusting his voice to the track [but he] figured a way to sing the lead without any changes to the key or the overall track. I was amazed at his natural ability to make it work, regardless of the circumstance.