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Someone Put Your Hand Out

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"Someone Put Your Hand Out"
File:Some Put Your Hand Out Cover Art.jpg
Promotional single by Michael Jackson
ReleasedMay 1992
Length5:25
LabelEpic, Pepsi
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Teddy Riley
  • Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson chronology
"In the Closet'"
(1992)
"Someone Put Your Hand Out"
(1992)
"Jam"
(1992)

"Someone Put Your Hand Out" (on disc three of The Ultimate Collection) is a song originally written by Michael Jackson in 1987 for the Bad album and re-written with Teddy Riley in April 1992, having failed to make it onto Jackson's 1991 album Dangerous.

Promotion

It was released May 1992 in Europe as an exclusive Pepsi promotional single, to promote Jackson’s upcoming Dangerous World Tour. 500,000[citation needed] copies were made available by collecting a winning token from certain Pepsi products. It was also released as part of an exclusive Pepsi promotional pack in June 1992 throughout Europe. The promotional pack included a Michael Jackson poster, a promotional sticker, a press release about Jackson’s upcoming Dangerous World Tour and a cassette single of "Someone Put Your Hand Out". The song was also released on a 3" CD promotional-only copy. The song used Michael's Soprano voice as well as a falsetto tone

Live performances

The song was never performed live, but an instrumental interlude was played on the first leg of his Dangerous World Tour, from June to December 1992.