THE RECORD OF THE WEEK:

THIS TIME AROUND/EARTH SONG

USA PROMO 11 TRACKS CD

EPIC/SONY ESK7521

 

 

Among the obscure single releases in the entire Michael's career, this release of "This time around" got a particular relief. Scheduled to be released as a fourth album extract, the track went on radio only promotionally, and didn't got a true commercial release. A large number of remxies have been produced, and this is weird for a non-commercial single. "This time around" then got 3 different promo vinyl sets, and 2 cd releases:the most interesting, is the one you can see in the picture, and the one chosen as "the record of the week" by the Showroom. It contains 8 remixes of "This time around", and 3 additional mixes of "Earth song" (another unreleased single in U.S., not in Europe where it had a huge success).