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The song would ultimately replace the track "Carousel", which had been already recorded for Thriller. [9] "Human Nature" was released as a single on July 4, 1983. Like the four Thriller singles before it, the song became a top 10 hit in the US, reaching number seven on the Billboard Hot 100.
Nov 18, 2022 · “Carousel” almost featured on Thriller, but was replaced by “Human Nature” at the last minute. Eventually, two versions of this song became commercially available.
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"Carousel" (originally titled "Circus Girl") is a previously unreleased song by Michael Jackson released as the thirteenth track on the Thriller: Special Edition reissue.
What was released up until 2008 was a short edit, which later re-appeared on Thriller 25. Few months later, a longer edit was featured on French and Italian editions of the King of Pop compilation album and got re-released on Thriller 40 released in 2022.
The song was co-written by Michael Sembello and Don Freeman in 1982. The song almost made the final cut, until it was decided it should be replaced by "Human Nature".
"One of them was Carousel, which is a great song, that slow-ish song from Michael Sembello, which was beautiful. But lyrically, and at that point in time, it didn't seem, that that was were the album was heading to [...]"
The full version leaked online at an unknown time in the 2000's, if not earlier. This features an eleven-second long intro, not present in any of the released incarnations of the song. Additionally, the breakdown is around ten seconds longer.
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•Quincy Jones had talked about the song in depth in an interview featured on Thriller 25.
"Human Nature" ultimately replaced "Carousel" - another song that was very close to making it on Thriller's track list. Live performances [] Jackson stated "Human Nature" is his favorite song to perform. He sang it during all of his tours, although only a few times during the HIStory World Tour.
While appearing in a nightclub act with his wife at Lake Tahoe, Gordon MacRae received an emergency phone call to replace Frank Sinatra as Billy Bigelow in the film version of Richard Rodgers's and Oscar Hammerstein II's stage hit Carousel, after Sinatra walked out on the filming when he discovered that every scene was to be filmed twice - once ...
Jul 25, 2017 · But it wasn’t until 1861, with the first steam-powered carousel, that the device became what we know today. An English man named Thomas Bradshaw created the first such ride, writes the National...
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Jul 16, 2013 · Some early carousels were human-powered, meaning a person would rotate the entire structure using either a hand crank or pull rope. Others relied on animal power. In each case, the turning of...
