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"SEEING VOICES"
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>> STATUS READOUT :: WHAT EXISTS
RECORDED ....... EARLY SESSIONS
FINISHED MASTER UNKNOWN
ON THE ALBUM ... NO
SURFACED ....... 07.24.15
AS ............. UNRELEASED — PUBLIC
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BURIED
POSSIBLE
LIKELY
◄ SURFACED
JUSTIFICATION :: it's out. this one entered public knowledge in 2015 — surfacing is the meter's ceiling, and it's already there. nothing left to wait on.
>> THE STORY :: THE DOCUMENTED HISTORY, ON THE WIRE
   
01
EARLY
Written by Sidney Fine — not Ray Charles.
One of the very first tracks attempted for the album. Writer/composer-arranger: Sidney Fine, who conceived the piece and approached Jackson to sing on it — the earlier “Ray Charles, Sidney Fine” writer credit was wrong. The Ray Charles Choir performed backing vocals only; they did not co-write it. A rough string mix is dated Dec 12, 1997. A Phase I seed — part of the earliest post-tour reaching-around, before the record found its shape. No further production narrative is documented.
02
c.1997
Maybe not even the earliest seed.
An account from Sprague “Doogie” Williams, an engineer on Teddy Riley's team, places Riley's crew already pushing Jackson toward more modern R&B during the Blood on the Dance Floor sessions — possibly predating even this track and "Bio" in spirit, if not in date. Full account on Phase I; not restated here.
03
07.24.15
It surfaces — into public knowledge.
The track leaked online July 24, 2015 — stated here as a fact of its own story, nothing more. It belongs to the broader "seeds of Invincible" chapter, the earliest post-tour sessions covered in Phase I.
 
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