He’s the King of Pop so of course he’s gonna appear on this site at least twice, maybe three or four times. There are some good ones here. Enjoy!

1.

Back in 2009 a previously unreleased MJ song called “A Place With No Name” surfaced.  According to one reader, “The album booklet for Xscape states that ‘A Place With No Name’ was recorded during an early Invincible session in 1998.”. According to TMZ, “[They were] told several years ago [that] America’s manager gave his group’s permission for Jackson to record the song, ‘A Place with No Name’ — despite the similarity.” I mean, even the song titles are similar. Listen up:

2.

One day I was in a French restaurant and heard a beat and bass line that really sounded like “Billie Jean”.  Even the synth string part was similar. It was in French and sounded disco-era. I pulled out Shazam on my iPhone and bingo –  “Elle danse Marie” by François Valéry.

3.

Have a listen to The Jackson 5’s 1978 “Shake Your Body (Down to the Ground)” then have a listen to the intro to Huey Lewis & The News – “I Want a New Drug” (1984). There’s also this whole Huey Lewis vs. Ghostbusters thing you can look at after this.

4.

Have a listen to MJ’s “Black or White” (1991) along with The Beatles “It’s All Too Much” (1969)

And if you have never seen the music video for “Black or White” it’s a gem

5&6.

And finally, at Numbers 5 and 6…

I was listening to some Elvis Presley tunes when “Let It Be Me” came on. I thought the verse really sounded like “I’ll Be There” so I dug into my best friends Wikipedia and YouTube.

“Let It Be Me” is a popular song originally published in 1955 as “Je t’appartiens”. The score was written and first recorded by Gilbert Bécaud. The lyrics were penned in French by Pierre Delanoë. The English language version used lyrics by Mann Curtis and was performed in 1957 by Jill Corey in the television series Climax!. Corey’s version, with orchestration by Jimmy Carroll, was released as a single and was moderately successful. The most popular version of “Let It Be Me” was released in 1960 by The Everly Brothers. It reached 7th position on the Billboard Hot 100. The harmony arrangement of this version was often emulated in subsequent remakes.
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_Me_(song)

I have some of the other recorded versions of these songs here.