Michael Jackson - Remember The Time - February 1991 Recording

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On June 25, 1990, the album that became "Dangerous", formally began. Despite having been recording various demos since 1989 for an album compilation, Jackson finally made the decision in 1990 to release a full length LP in 1991.

Working with Bruce Swedien and Bill Bottrell, Jackson had been waiting on Quincy Jones to agree to the project, before proceeding with a desired release date. Having already refused to be involved, Jones recommended Teddy Riley in late 1990.

Jackson contacted Riley and after several conversations into January '91, Riley flew from the E. ast Coast down to LA in February 1991 & worked with MJ on both redoing Dangerous and recording this track, "Remember The Time", before proceeding with other titles.

Remember The Time was mastered on Oct 30, 1991 & released on November 26, 1991 as part of the Dangerous LP. It was released as a single on January 14, 1992 and in movie form, on February 2, 1992.

This is an account from someone who worked on the project:

*Blood On The Dance Floor was an Oddity.. Before we came to L.A. Teddy & I holed up at Soundtracks Studios for a couple of weeks where Teddy came up with a bunch of tracks to get things rolling. They were all live midi tracks running into the SSL where we added some more eq and compression from the console. These tracks were then recorded to DAT & not multitrack.
This DAT had the original writing tracks for In The Closet, Remember The Time and I think I Can't Let Her Get Away plus about 8 or 10 other ones. When we got to L.A., we sat down in the control room with Michael and played him these ideas. I'll never forget pushing play and the first track slamming out of the monitors at Record One's Neve room. It was a hard hitting, powerful groove that we thought was the best track from the Soundtracks sessions. They of course had no titles, maybe some working title. But after this first track was done, Michael said, " Wow, play it again!".
So we did, & we then went on to play the others, all of which seemed to get Michael excited. But that first track was always his favorite and he played this one a lot.

So Michael and Teddy picked out about 5 or 6 tracks to start with and we got to setting up Teddy's massive amounts of gear & putting them down on multitrack. We were now tracking through the vintage 8078 rather than the SSL G series. When Michael heard them again after they'd been multitracked, he commented that it wasn't as hard hitting as on the DAT. This was most likely because it was no longer coming thought the SSL with compressors on every channel and when I said so, his reaction was "Well, can we get one of those?". Of course we couldn't just "get" an SSL, we had to go to where there was one, and the only SSL rooms in L.A. that I'd worked in were at Larrabee. They'd just opened a new facility on Lankershim called Larrabee North which was literally down the road from the Universal Hilton where we were staying so within a few weeks, we move7d everything over there and ended up being there for the remainder of the album, while Bill Botrell Bryan Loren continued at Record One. In the meantime, Michael came up with melody and lyric ideas for other tracks including Remember The Time and In The Closet but the first song from the DAT never developed any further.

Cut to 5 or 6 years later when I'm mixing for Blood on The Dancefloor. Michael plays me some of the other tracks that were being worked on and he plays me the "title track". He pumps up the monitors and out comes that first track from the DAT we played him at Record One, but now with lyrics, vocals and some extra claps and synths. But the basic track, which was very developed and immediately obvious to me, was directly from that original DAT. Apparently, he was never satisfied with how the track sounded after being multitrack when compared to the original DAT and so they just transferred the DAT mix to multitrack & built on top of that.

To your other questions.. don't know about the recording of Morphine. Only know that we mixed it at Record Plant in 96 or 97.

We arrived in L.A. in Feb of '91. I remember only because at that time, I had recently started playing golf and I'd brought my clubs with me. I was thrilled that I could run down to the Par 3 Studio City golf course on Whitsett before heading to the studio in the middle of February.

Don't know about if Heavy D recommended Teddy but that might be true as we had a couple of hits with Heavy right about that time with "Now That We Found Love" and " Is It Good To You".

I was not involved with History at all though I had been working with Dallas Austin a lot before then. Dangerous was the last project I worked on with Teddy. While we were in L.A., he was building his studio in Virginia Beach. I thought hard about whether to follow him there or to stay in L.A. which I immediately loved. Also, there was a girl at Larrabee that caught my eye.

We now have two kids and still live in L.A. though I don't golf much these days.*

MuZik

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it's crazy how much a difference additional percussion makes.

erenyeeagah

The recommendation video
“Ok I'll just take a look and play quickly”
Damn I end up listening full of the song,

nanistravel

The Dangerous album was the very first cassette and the first cd I ever bought as a kid. I listened to it so much I had to buy it twice. To this day I have a framed poster of the cover art on my wall. I own all of Michael's music like most fans, but this album will always hold a special place in my heart. MJ's voice is like pure heaven to me, no one can sing like him. Favorite song of all time for me is still 'Who Is It'. There will never be another Michael Jackson. He was a true musical and entertainment genius, who cannot be duplicated❣👑

katieh.

This sounds good too. Teddy Riley is a genius....and Mike...there will never be another like him

craigblakes

The most generous, caring, giving and pure soul who ever walked this earth.

marimm

He don't need music music needs him

tyronejackson

Am I the only who became a Michael jackson fan like this? I was just watching impressions of him then became a fan

maliataliai

Those harmonies in the chorus are absolutely spine tingling. You can't teach that kind of ability, nor use studio techniques to manufacture it.

alhemmings

dub dub dat Yes Mikey! Work that song. What a voice!

kashiaroundtheworld

Once upon a time was music at its finest moment, sadly those days no longer exist in the music industry .

tuesday

do you Remembaah😔❤️ Yes mike I remember

TheAkd

He's adorable here, looks more manly but also cute. Liquid vocals as always <3

Secret-swih

Michael, the world got crazy without you! We need you here so urgently!

sebastianrubesamen

We miss a best singer in the world l miss you Mike

fungmay

The morning of the day Dangerous was released I remember there was a hundred people outside the record store waiting to get in and buy it. I've never seen that before or since.

Chuckson