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The Way You Make Me Feel

1987 single by Michael Jackson

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

"The Way You Make Me Feel" is a song by the American singer Michael Jackson, released by Epic Records on October 31, 1987, as the third single from his seventh studio album, Bad. It was written by Jackson and produced by Jackson and Quincy Jones.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “The Way You Make Me Feel” is 1987 single by Michael Jackson. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Make, Feel and single, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Make, Feel and single is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Way You Make Me Feel” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.