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Farewell My Summer Love (song)

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"Farewell My Summer Love"
Single by Michael Jackson
from the album Farewell My Summer Love
B-side"Call on Me" (album version)
ReleasedMay 1984[1]
RecordedSeptember 4, 10, 11, 1973[1]
StudioMotown Recording Studios (Los Angeles, California)[1]
Genre
Length4:21 (album version)
3:41 (single version)
LabelMotown
Songwriter(s)Keni St. Lewis[1]
Producer(s)
Michael Jackson singles chronology
"Thriller"
(1983)
"Farewell My Summer Love"
(1984)
"Girl You're So Together"
(1984)

"Farewell My Summer Love" is a song recorded by Michael Jackson in 1973. Written by Keni St. Lewis, it was later released in 1984 as a single from the compilation album Farewell My Summer Love due to the commercial interest that generated from the sales of Jackson's hit 1982 album Thriller.

It hit No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart and was a Top 40 Pop and R&B and Top 20 Adult Contemporary hit in the U.S.

Reception

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Cash Box said that "all the vibrancy of the now legendary Jackson vocal style is present on this single."[3]

Charts

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Weekly charts

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Weekly chart performance for "Farewell My Summer Love"
Chart (1984) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[4] 68
UK Singles (OCC)[5] 7
US Billboard Hot 100[6] 38
US Billboard Adult Contemporary[7] 20

Year-end charts

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Year-end chart performance for "Farewell My Summer Love"
Chart (1984) Position
UK Singles (Gallup)[8] 74

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Lecocq, Richard; Allard, François (2018). "Bad". Michael Jackson All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track. London, England: Cassell. ISBN 9781788400572.
  2. ^ "Farewell My Summer Love". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-02-11.
  3. ^ "Reviews" (PDF). Cash Box. May 26, 1984. p. 7. Retrieved 2022-07-23.
  4. ^ "Michael Jackson – Farewell My Summer Love". ARIA Top 50 Singles.
  5. ^ "Michael Jackson: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company.
  6. ^ "Michael Jackson Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  7. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2002). Top Adult Contemporary: 1961-2001. Record Research. p. 124.
  8. ^ "Top 100 Singles 1984" (PDF). Music Week. Retrieved September 13, 2022.