I Wanna Be Where You Are

"I Wanna Be Where You Are"
"I Wanna Be Where You Are" cover
Song by Marvin Gaye
from the album I Want You
Released	1976
Recorded	1975, Marvin's Room, Los Angeles, California
Genre	Soul
Label	Tamla
Producer(s)	Leon Ware Marvin Gaye

"I Wanna Be Where You Are" is a song written by Leon Ware and Arthur "T-Boy" Ross for Michael Jackson, who took the song to number sixteen on the U.S. pop singles chart and number two on the U.S. R&B singles chart in 1972. His third straight Top 40 pop hit during his early solo career in Motown, it was also the first collaboration between Ware and Ross, the younger brother of R&B singer Diana Ross. This song would be one of Jackson's most covered songs sung by everyone from Marvin Gaye to Willie Hutch, from Jason Weaver to The Fugees. Ware and Ross would be famous together for penning the classic Marvin Gaye single, "I Want You" several years afterwards.

While the versions of Hutch's and Weaver's followed the original, the Fugees' version was completely different save for the choruses sung by Lauryn Hill while Marvin's was more of an instrumental except for Marvin singing the title and dedicating the track to his then-girlfriend Janis Hunter and his children Marvin III (sometimes referred as Marvin, Jr. in some levels), Nona and Frankie Christian. The alternate instrumental, later issued on a deluxe edition re-release of Marvin's I Want You album, was a funk-styled instrumental that featured Marvin's background vocals harmonizing throughout the track, which was also produced by Ware.^[1]

Hutch's version was later sampled by singer Mary J. Blige for her song, "You Can't Hide From Luv" from her The Breakthrough album.

Credits

Michael Jackson version

Lead vocals by Michael Jackson
Hollers by Leon Ware and Arthur Ross
Instrumentation by assorted Los Angeles musicians
Produced by Hal Davis

Marvin Gaye version

All vocals by Marvin Gaye
Instrumentation by assorted musicians
Produced by Leon Ware and Marvin Gaye

• • [ e] Michael Jackson singles

Got to Be There: "Got to Be There" • "Rockin' Robin" • "I Wanna Be Where You Are" • "Ain't No Sunshine"
Ben: "Ben"
Music and Me: "With a Child's Heart" • "Music and Me" • "Happy"
Forever, Michael: "We're Almost There" • "Just a Little Bit of You"
The Wiz: "Ease on Down the Road" (w/Diana Ross) • "You Can't Win (Pt. 1)" • "A Brand New Day" (w/Diana Ross)
Off the Wall: "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" • "Rock With You" • "Off the Wall" • "She's out of My Life" • "Girlfriend"
One Day in Your Life: "One Day in Your Life"
Thriller: "The Girl Is Mine" (w/Paul McCartney) • "Billie Jean" • "Beat It" • "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
"Human Nature" • "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)" • "Thriller"
Farewell My Summer Love: "Farewell My Summer Love" / "Girl You're So Together"
Bad: "I Just Can't Stop Loving You" (w/Siedah Garrett) • "Bad" • "The Way You Make Me Feel" • "Man in the Mirror"
"Dirty Diana" • "Another Part of Me" • "Smooth Criminal" • "Leave Me Alone" • "Liberian Girl"
Dangerous: "Black or White" • "Remember the Time" • "In the Closet" • "Jam" • "Who Is It"
"Give In to Me" • "Heal the World" • "Will You Be There" • "Gone Too Soon"
HIStory: "Scream/Childhood" • "You Are Not Alone" • "Earth Song" • "They Don't Care About Us" • "Stranger in Moscow"
: "Blood on the Dance Floor" • "HIStory/Ghosts"
Invincible: "You Rock My World" • "Cry" • "Butterflies"
Number Ones: "One More Chance"
Other collaborations: "Somebody's Watching Me" (w/Rockwell) • "Say Say Say" (w/Paul McCartney) • "Get It" (w/ Stevie Wonder) • "Why" (w/ 3T)

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Michael Joseph Jackson (born August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ^[1] as well as "The King of Pop",^[2] is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for
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Got to Be There
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Got to Be There was the solo debut album by then-adolescent Michael Jackson, released on Motown Records, released on September 1971.
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Leon Ware (born 6 February 1940, Detroit, Michigan) is a soul music singer, songwriter and producer who found his biggest success crafting the hit album, I Want You, for friend and Motown icon Marvin Gaye in 1976.
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Arthur "T-Boy" Ross (January 1, 1949 - April 22, 1996) was an American singer and songwriter most notable for his collaborations with Leon Ware and for being the younger brother of American R&B singer Diana Ross.
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B-side(s) "Love Is Here and Now You're Gone"
Released 1972
Format 7" single
Recorded Hitsville West, Los Angeles, California
Genre Bubblegum pop/soul
Length 2:50
Label Motown
Writer(s) Roger Thomas

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B-side(s) "Harlem"
Released September, 1971
Format 7" Record
Genre Soul, R&B
Label Sussex Records
Writer(s) Bill Withers
Producer(s) Booker T. Jones
Peak chart positions

#3 U.S. Pop
#6 U.S.

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Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.) (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer-songwriter, musician and performer who gained international fame as an artist on the Motown label in the 1960s and 1970s.
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I Want You is a 1976 album by Marvin Gaye released on the Tamla (Motown) label.

The album's songs were composed mostly by Leon Ware with collaborations from Gaye, Diana Ross' brother Arthur "T-Boy" Ross, and Jacqueline Hillard.
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Michael Jackson version

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