The Discussion of MJ's Unreleased Tracks

Unless he mixed a later version because John said it wasn't finished
It’s possible that Michael tracked multiple different versions of BB - one originally at Soundcastle (where John Barnes said it was first cut), then another with Bruce Swedien later in the Victory sessions.

Matt Forger said it went through many versions that were probably never finished… Bill Bottrell recalled working on a version Matt Forger recorded too.
 
Bill Bottrell:

Michael brought me a tape to mix called "Deep In The Night" April 23-25 1990. The writer came in on the last day. His name is Skylark.
I don't know what his relationship w/ MJ was.
I did my best to fuss with it and make a mix.

I don't remember if MJ's BG vocals were already there or if we recorded them
 
Bill Bottrell:

Michael brought me a tape to mix called "Deep In The Night" April 23-25 1990. The writer came in on the last day. His name is Skylark.
I don't know what his relationship w/ MJ was.
I did my best to fuss with it and make a mix.

I don't remember if MJ's BG vocals were already there or if we recorded them
Cool stuff. Wonder who that Skylar person would be...

Keep sharing, Bill!
 
Bill Bottrell:

Michael brought me a tape to mix called "Deep In The Night" April 23-25 1990. The writer came in on the last day. His name is Skylark.
I don't know what his relationship w/ MJ was.
I did my best to fuss with it and make a mix.

I don't remember if MJ's BG vocals were already there or if we recorded them
Thought it was Bryan Loren’s works?
 
Bill Bottrell:

Michael brought me a tape to mix called "Deep In The Night" April 23-25 1990. The writer came in on the last day. His name is Skylark.
I don't know what his relationship w/ MJ was.
I did my best to fuss with it and make a mix.

I don't remember if MJ's BG vocals were already there or if we recorded them
To his credit, the instrumental is pretty cool. It's got a real sound of that transitional period between Bad and Dangerous.
 
These are all the bits I got on unreleased music, not a lot and it's probably stuff that was already said in his seminar:

-"Chicago 1945" and "Dream Away" will eventually get an official release
-"Chicago 1945" was the first song they did after "Thriller"
-MJ called Steve 2 days after the recording of "Chicago 1945" and that's when "Dream Away" came into fruition
-The 1983 demo of "Dream Away" is just a basic piano track with MJ's lead vocal, he said him and Michael wrote the lyrics together and that he played the piano on a Roland Electric Piano
 
These are all the bits I got on unreleased music, not a lot and it's probably stuff that was already said in his seminar:

-"Chicago 1945" and "Dream Away" will eventually get an official release
-"Chicago 1945" was the first song they did after "Thriller"
-MJ called Steve 2 days after the recording of "Chicago 1945" and that's when "Dream Away" came into fruition
-The 1983 demo of "Dream Away" is just a basic piano track with MJ's lead vocal, he said him and Michael wrote the lyrics together and that he played the piano on a Roland Electric Piano
Oh, boy. Official release for these 2 songs would be a dream (away). No, seriously. Drean Away in CDQ can rival Human Nature in my humble opinion. The song takes me even further than HN.

They better hurry up
 
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