Songwriter: Larry Weiss Bob Crewe
To make my father proud
To make my mother smile
I need not conquer worlds, or fame
Nor set the pace for style
If I can follow through
On what they gave me as my tools
I'll find a way to sail my course
Avoiding ships of fools
If I don't come up, number one
I'll stand not well apart
As one for numbered numbers
When knowing in my heart
I've done all to be done
To always do my best
By listening to me myself
So he can do the rest
(Law without compromise
Shall follow the feel of constant care)
In my eleventh hour
I'll be a man aware
To face whatever falls my way
Prepared then unashamed
To just be called a part of God
For which I have been named
A man and woman's youngest son
While growing still a child
And that will make my father proud
And make my mother smile
To make my mother smile
I need not conquer worlds, or fame
Nor set the pace for style
If I can follow through
On what they gave me as my tools
I'll find a way to sail my course
Avoiding ships of fools
If I don't come up, number one
I'll stand not well apart
As one for numbered numbers
When knowing in my heart
I've done all to be done
To always do my best
By listening to me myself
So he can do the rest
(Law without compromise
Shall follow the feel of constant care)
In my eleventh hour
I'll be a man aware
To face whatever falls my way
Prepared then unashamed
To just be called a part of God
For which I have been named
A man and woman's youngest son
While growing still a child
And that will make my father proud
And make my mother smile
Anthology (1995 Edition)
- Love’s Gone Bad
- That’s What Love Is Made Of
- Dancing Machine
- Never Can Say Goodbye
- I’ll Come Home to You
- Dear Michael
- You Are There
- Just a Little Bit of You
- Cinderella Stay Awhile
- Who’s Looking For A Lover
- Lonely Teardrops
- When I Come Of Age
- To Make My Father Proud (Original Mix)
- Call on Me (Original Mix)
- Don’t Let It Get You Down (Original Mix)
- Melodie (Original Mix)
- Farewell My Summer Love (Original Mix)
- If’n I Was God
- It’s Too Late to Change the Time
- Maybe Tomorrow
- One Day In Your Life
- Take Me Back
- We’re Almost There
- Love Is Here and Now You’re Gone
- Maria (You Were The Only One)
- Rockin’ Robin
- Got to Be There
- In Our Small Way
- Girl Don’t Take Your Love From Me
- I Wanna Be Where You Are
- Ain’t No Sunshine
- Ben
- The Greatest Show On Earth
- People Make The World Go ’Round
- Music And Me
- Happy (Love Theme From ”Lady Sings The Blues”)
- All the Things You Are
- With A Child’s Heart
- You Can Cry On My Shoulder
- Shoo-Be-Doo-Be-Doo-Da-Day
- Everybody’s Somebody’s Fool
- We’ve Got A Good Thing Going
- I’ll Be There
- Billie Jean
- Smooth Criminal
- They Don’t Care About Us
- Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
- Man in the Mirror
- Thriller
- Human Nature
- Beat It
- Dirty Diana
- Heal the World
- Bad
- Black or White
- Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough
- Earth Song
- P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)
- Rock with You
- The Way You Make Me Feel
- You Are Not Alone
- Remember the Time
- You Rock My World
- Will You Be There
- Scream
- Off the Wall
- The Girl Is Mine