"With a Child's Heart" | ||||
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Single by Michael Jackson | ||||
from the album Music & Me | ||||
B-side | "Morning Glow" | |||
Released | May 5, 1973 | |||
Format | 7" single, 12" single | |||
Length | 3:34 | |||
Label | Motown | |||
Writer(s) |
Sylvia Moy Henry Cosby Vicki Basemore |
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Producer(s) | Freddie Perren Fonce Mizell |
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Michael Jackson singles chronology | ||||
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"With a Child's Heart" | ||||
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Single by Raven-Symoné | ||||
from the album Undeniable | ||||
Released | February 20, 1999 | |||
Format | CD single, cassette single, 7" single, 12" single | |||
Length | 3:53 | |||
Label | Crash Records | |||
Writer(s) | Ray Blaze, Jerome Jefferson | |||
Raven-Symoné singles chronology | ||||
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"With a Child's Heart" is a song by the singer Stevie Wonder, from his album Up-Tight. The song was released as the b-side to the single "Nothing's Too Good for My Baby".
Stevie's original version of With a Child's Heart was released in 1966, as the "B" side to his hit, "Nothing's Too Good For My Baby". Both songs were taken from his successful album, Up-Tight. Although this version completely missed the Billboard Hot 100, it was a huge R&B hit, reaching the Top 10 of Billboard's R&B Chart, peaking at number 8.
The song was later covered by singer Michael Jackson and released as the first single from his 1973 album Music & Me. The song peaked at number 50 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart, number 14 on the US R&B chart, and number 23 on the US adult contemporary chart. Nearly all disc pressings of the Michael Jackson single had a track called "Morning Glow", the ninth track on the album originally written by composer Stephen Schwartz. In a 2003 interview with Martin Bashir, Jackson admitted that he no longer remembered having recorded the song, and could not recall any of the lyrics.
"With a Child's Heart" was later covered by American singer Raven-Symoné, taken from her second studio album, Undeniable. It was released as a single in 1999. Raven toured the United States going to various schools and malls to promote the single, and even went on a tour with *NSYNC. Her version appeared in the reissue version of the Music of the Heart soundtrack.
Three music videos were made for the song: the first one used the original "uptempo version", the second used the "ballad version", and the third used a remix. Despite the music videos and heavy promotion, the single never took off and failed to dent the charts.