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1. ABC
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2. I Want You Back
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3. What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
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4. Tracks of My Tears
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5. My Girl
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6. Stop! In the Name of Love
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7. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
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8. Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
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9. Reach Out, I'll Be There
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10. Walk Away Renee
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11. It's the Same Old Song
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12. Dancing in the Street
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13. Nowhere to Run
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14. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
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15. Tears of a Clown
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16. You Keep Me Hangin' On
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17. My Guy
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18. Third Finger Left Hand
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19. Jimmy Mack
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20. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)
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- the MIRACLES....NOT IN THE ROCK HALL OF FAME ? ...OUTRAGEOUS !!
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Going to Go-Go / Away We Go-Go
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
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ASIN: B000063BON
Release Date: 2002-03-26 |
Tracks:
- The Tracks Of My Tears
- Going To A Go-Go
- Ooo Baby Baby
- My Girl Has Gone
- In Case You Need Love
- Choosey Beggar
- Since You Won My Heart
- From Head To Toe
- All That's Good
- My Baby Changes Like The Weather
- Let Me Have Some
- A Fork In The Road
- Whole Lot Of Shakin' In My Heart (Since I Met You)
- You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
- (Come 'Round Here) I'm The One You Need
- Save Me
- Oh Be My Love
- Can You Love A Poor Baby
- Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
- I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
- Baby Baby
- Walk On By
- Swept For You Baby
- More, More, More Of Your Love
- It's Fantastic (Stereo Mix)
- Goin' Out Of My Head
- A Fork In The Road (Live @ The Roostertail)
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Most mid-'60s pop and R&B albums are like Hamburger Helper: a little meat and a lot of filler. But Smokey Robinson and the Miracles gratifyingly confound that notion on the first half of this two-album collection. Not surprisingly, it's also the first album to give vocalist-writer-producer Robinson star billing in his veteran band. Cut in the midst of producing chores for the Temptations and Marvin Gaye (Robinson was also a Motown label VP), Going to a Go-Go was something of a minor tour de force for Robinson, who cowrote all but one of the album's songs. Although its name refers to a partying dance craze (the origins of the infectious hit title track), it's an album largely centered around bittersweet, emotionally charged hits like "Tracks of My Tears" and "Ooo Baby Baby," as well as unusually strong cuts like "My Girl Has Gone" and "A Fork in the Road." By contrast, the second half here often sounds haphazard and less focused, as could be expected from a quickly produced sequel to a massive hit. Still, Robinson's glorious tenor illuminates even such standard fare as "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me." Previously unreleased bonus tracks include the stereo mix of "It's Fantastic," a fellow Away We Go-Go outtake of the lounge standard "Goin' Out of My Head," and a glorious, impassioned 1966 live rendition of "A Fork in the Road." --Jerry McCulley
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the MIRACLES....NOT IN THE ROCK HALL OF FAME ? ...OUTRAGEOUS !!.......2006-07-29
Let's see here...the Supremes are in...the Temptations are in...the Four Tops..the Jackson Five ...even Martha and the Vandellas are in , but the MIRACLES...MOTOWN'S FIRST GROUP... THE GROUP WHO'S HITS BUILT THE LABEL... THE GROUP THAT LAUNCHED A RECORDING EMPIRE...THE GROUP WHO'S SONGS HAVE BEEN RECORDED BY ARTIST AFTER ARTIST FROM THE BEATLES ,TO THE STONES ,TO ARETHA FRANKLIN,TO EDDIE MONEY, TO LINDA RONSTADT,TO KIM CARNES,TO JOHNNY RIVERS, THE CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE AND A HOST OF OTHERS... THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT GROUP IN THE COMPANY'S HISTORY...THE ONE THAT HAD THE LABEL'S FIRST MILLION-SELLER...THE GROUP WITH OVER 50 CHART HITS...DOESN'T MERIT INDUCTION INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME ? While at the SAME TIME , groups with NOWHERE NEAR the number of hits...NOWHERE NEAR AS INFLUENTIAL... AND NOWHERE NEAR AS GOOD continue to be inducted year after year ??!!... WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE ?? WHAT'S WRONG ? I'LL TELL YOU WHAT'S WRONG... THE CAPTION RIGHT NEXT TO THIS PICTURE !! IT SAYS "GOING TO A GO GO/AWAY WE GO GO"...BY SMOKEY ROBINSON !!! NOT BY THE MIRACLES... NOT EVEN BY SMOKEY ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES... BUT BY JUST "SMOKEY ROBINSON " AND THEREIN LIES THE PROBLEM !!! Throughout the history of this legendary group, the MIRACLES have NEVER ...but NEVER received their rightful due AS A GROUP...it has always been only about SMOKEY !!! but,as any insider will tell you ...AND AS SMOKEY HIMSELF WILL TELL YOU... the MIRACLES HAVE NEVER BEEN JUST A ONE MAN SHOW !! they were ALL talented songwriters, singers , and producers ...ALL OF THEM have had a share in writing their many hits...(if you don't believe it,just read the writing credits on the labels},not to mention the hits of almost EVERY OTHER EARLY ARTIST ON THE MOTOWN LABEL... MARY WELLS, THE TEMPTATIONS, MARVIN GAYE ... YOU NAME IT !! BUT NOT ALL OF THEM SHARE THE CREDIT ... TO THIS DAY, DISC JOCKEYS ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY , AFTER PLAYING OLD MIRACLES RECORDS ...WILL ANNOUNCE " THAT WAS BY SMOKEY ROBINSON ! " LIKE THE MIRACLES DIDN'T... OR NEVER EXISTED....DO THEY DO THIS TO THE SUPREMES..? NO !! they still call them the SUPREMES ! RARELY DO DEE JAYS SAY "DIANA ROSS AND THE SUPREMES" even though MOTOWN ACTUALLY CHANGED THE GROUP'S NAME MANY YEARS AGO!!AND NEVER, BUT EVER ...DO THEY JUSY SAY "DIANA ROSS". the MIRACLES' album "GOING TO A GO GO, WHEN RELEASED IN 1965, OUT CHARTED AND OUT SOLD CONTEMPORARY RELEASES BY THE TEMPTATIONS AND THE SUPREMES... EVENTUALLY REACHNG THE TOP 10 ON THE BILLBOARD POP ALBUM CHART.QUITE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT!! AND YES...IT WAS A GROUP ACCOMPLISHMENT !! BESIDES,LOOK AT THE TOPS, TEMPS AND SUPREMES...in the 1960's.. HOW MANY OF THEIR OWN HITS (OR ANYONE ELSES) did THEY WRITE?..BUT THEY'RE IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME AND THE MIRACLES ARE NOT ?? And for those who argue that SMOKEY was the group's only talented songwriter, I say " what about "LOVE MACHINE" ? a MULTI-MILLION SELLING NUMBER 1 POP SMASH...THE BIGGEST HIT THE GROUP EVER HAD..WHERE was SMOKEY when THAT one was written ? (not even in the group any more ).There's no question that SMOKEY is one of the greatest songwriters of ALL TIME!! But to only credit him and completely ignore the rest of the MIRACLES is definitely UNFAIR .THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL INSTANCES WHERE SOLO STARS HAVE BEEN INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK HALL OF FAME ... WHILE THE GROUPS THEY WERE ASSOCIATED WITH WERE ALSO INDUCTED ...MICHAEL JACKSON WAS INDUCTED AS A SOLO STAR...BUT HIS GROUP, HIS BROTHERS , THE JACKSON FIVE, WERE INDUCTED TOO !! CURTIS MAYFIELD WAS INDUCTED AS A SOLO...BUT HIS GROUP, THE IMPRESSIONS, (INCLUDING ORIGINAL LEAD SINGER JERRY BUTLER ) WERE ALSO INDUCTED ...EACH INDIVDUAL BEATLE - AS WELL AS THE GROUP ITSELF..ARE IN THE HALL... SO , ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME .... DO THE RIGHT THING . YOU'VE INDUCTED SMOKEY AS A SOLO... NOW PLEASE... INDUCT BOBBY ROGERS, WARREN "PETE" MOORE , THE LATE RONNIE WHITE ...CLAUDETTE ROGERS ROBINSON... MARV TARPLIN....BILLY GRIFFIN... AND WILLIAM "SMOKEY" ROBINSON ... AS A GROUP..INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME ...IT'S LONG PAST TIME...AND THEY CERTAINLY DO DESERVE IT !!IT'S TIME THE MIRACLES ...THE GROUP...RECIEVE THE CREDIT THEY DESERVE !!
The Best of.......2005-01-27
"Going To A Go-Go" is one of the best albums by this group. Not only did it spit out singles such as "Going To A Go-Go", "Choosey Begger", "The Tracks Of My Tears", "Ohh Baby Baby" and of course the fillers such as "Since You Won My Heart" & "Let Me Have Some". In my opinion, this is the best album by this group. It was a contemporary of the Temptations "Temptations Sing Smokey" & "Temptin' Temptations" in which both lp's spat out quite a few hit singles & B'sides themselves in which Smokey himself produced. Smokey is a genius. Even tho the CD has added tracks, it's just another album by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles in 1966 "Away We Go-Go". But the original "Going to a go go" is the best of all.
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Still 'Go-Going' near 40 years later.......2004-02-25
For better or worse, when it appeared in the last days of 1965, The Miracles "Going to a Go-Go" LP raised expectations among Motown fans about the quality level we would anticipate from the company's album output from then on. And they succeeded at least as often as they failed. Tellingly, `Going to a Go-Go,' was the first Miracles LP to nudge it's way into the Top Ten album charts.
As it was, it was a mini-greatest hits in itself as it contained every one of their 1965 singles and their flip sides: "Ooo Baby Baby," "The Tracks of my Tears," "My Girl Has Gone," and the title song, along with (respectively) "All That's Good," "A Fork In The Road," "Since You Won My Heart," & "Choosey Beggar." "Beggar" and "Road" (especially) were so good they could have been `A' sides themselves. The LP tracks fit in very fine alongside these already familiar eight, particularly "In Case You Need Love" and "From Head to Toe." The hidden jewel was Frank Wilson's "My Baby Changes Like the Weather," which, from the title alone, echoes some of Smokey's own compositions that spoke directly to how wife Claudette's changeable Gemini personality could send him to clouds or devastate him with just a word or look. All the more reason why Smokey's delivery of the tune is so assured and evergreen even now. Yep, we played this album a lot - still do.
Maybe because the Miracles singles of '66 ("Whole Lot of Shaking..." & "I'm the One You Need") aren't quite as strong as `65s, "Away We A Go-Go" couldn't have been as strong as the preceding album either, and it wasn't. Still, hardcore Miracles fans weren't all disappointed because those singles ARE good, and the album contained great flips sides too: "Oh Be My Love," "Save Me," and "Swept For You Baby" which would eventually ride the B-side of "More Love." And we didn't have long to wait for another five-star Miracles album: "Make It Happen" would show up in August of '67. Investigate that one too after you buy this essential set.
Mucho fun.......2002-10-23
Well, you get six hit records; you get some great B sides--so much part of the Motown legend; you get a rare live side; you get two songs--Baby Baby and Oh Be My Love--later retooled for the Supremes and in their original versions nearly unrecognizable (Motown was forever doing this; for example the Marvelettes' "Only Your Love Can Save Me" became Marvin and Tammi's "This Poor Heart of Mine); and you get the worst of Motown, four awful, terrible covers of dreck such as "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me," Berry's achilles heel. He just couldn't stay away from white mush--everytime I hear Diana trying to navigate "Ode to Billy Joe" I end up helplessly laughing. Through it all there is that Motown sound, just irreplaceable. The biggest shock in retrospect was how disjointedly all of this was put together. After opening with four consecutive hits, the C.D. moves into a tune which sounds recorded years before at the bottom of a washtub. It's amazing we accepted this stuff as real albums. The cover from Motown's basically one-man graphics arts department (mainly Curtis McNair) is terrific. Every year he had to come up with covers for albums which mostly weren't albums, just generic titles (the worst being the Miracles "Four in Blue" because Motown had a photo of the group dressed in blue suits--that same release include the Four Tops' "Soul Spin," the Vandellas "Natural Resources," the Marvelettes "In Full Bloom" and the Supremes' "Cream of the Crop," all random collections of tracks masquerading as albums). McNair's covers are quite remarkable given what he had to work with. Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end. They did. The music remains, still glorious.
Pretty Good.......2002-04-25
it's cool that this Includes quite a few songs.makes me long for the days when Pop Songs were 2-3 Minutes long as to Artists trying to fill every space on Disc.this is also the Classic Case of Genius&Miss.when Smokey&Crew Hit it's some of the Greatest Music Ever when it doesn't it's filler that unless you are a Die-Hard Fan you wouldn't even go near.but the cool thing about this set is that it showcases A ballance of a Very Creative Musical Genius.not many Artists before or since have captured the Simplicity&Depths within there Material as Smokey RObinson.
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- Must-have Smokey
- Away We A Go-Go is Great, Too!
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Going to a Go-Go/Away We a Go-Go
Smokey Robinson
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
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ASIN: B00005CEKO
Release Date: 2001-07-10 |
Tracks:
- The Tracks Of My Tears
- Going To A Go-Go
- Ooo Baby, Baby
- My Girl Has Gone
- In Case You Need Love
- Choosey Beggar
- Since You Won My Heart
- From Head To Toe
- All That's Good
- My Baby Changes Like The Weather
- Let Me Have Some
- A Fork In The Road
- Whole Lot Of Shakin' In My Heart (Since I Met You)
- You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
- (Come Round Here) I'm The One I Need
- Save Me
- Oh Be My Love
- Can You Love A Poor Boy
- Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
- I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself
- Baby Baby
- Walk On By
- Swept For You Baby
- More, More, More Of Your Love
Album Description
Digitally re-mastered reissue combines two domestically out-of-print albums together on one CD, 'Going To A Go-Go' (1965) & 'Away We A Go-Go' (1966). Packaged in a full color outer slipcase with original sleeve artwork.
Album Details
The Motown legends' 1965 & 1966 out of print albums together on one disc. Features the classic Smokey numbers 'Tracks of My Tears', plus 'In Case You Need Love', the Hal David / Burt Bacharach penned 'Walk on By', Stevie Wonder's 'Can You Love a Poor Boy' & many more.
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Must-have Smokey.......2007-05-17
In the early to mid sixties the 45 rpm single held sway. Most families had a big pile of crinkly-sleeved singles and maybe half a dozen albums by their very favourite artists. There was a perception, probably shared by record company bosses, that albums consisted of a recent hit single or two and a lot of filler. I don't know if Berry Gordy shared this view but if so he must have been very disappointed by the consistently high quality of all the tracks coming out on his artists' albums, not least those of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles.
If you happened to be at Hitsville Studios on 19 May 1965, hearty congratulations. You witnessed one of the most moving moments in sixties music when Smokey sang the sublime Tracks Of My Tears into the mike (check out The Motown Box for the phenomenal full-length mix), one of four dazzling A-sides included on Going To A Go-Go. As four more were B-sides, next best in the pecking order, one would expect the other four to be fairly dispensable. Instead we get the soulful blues of In Case You Need Love, the original and best version of From Head To Toe (as covered by Chris Clark and Elvis Costello), the snappy Frank Wilson production My Baby Changes Like The Weather (the only song not self-produced) and more classic Smokey on Let Me Have Some, these last two featuring classy saxophone solos from one of the legendary, sadly unnamed Funk Brothers. Any of these four could have been A-sides and it seems crazy that beautiful songs like Choosey Beggar and A Fork In The Road (both amazingly also recorded on 19 May) should have been consigned to flipsides.
Tragically, Going To A Go-Go seems to be the earliest full Miracles album to be in catalogue at the time of writing, though they had recorded over half a dozen albums by this time, but is by far the best first choice of their available original albums.
However, this CD contains another treat: the follow-up album Away We A Go-Go in full. Although its title is clearly inspired by the monster dance hit that lent its title to the first album, the scope of this album is far wider, if slightly less brilliant in part.
Although it kicks of with a dance-floor stomper in Whole Lot Of Shakin' In My Heart (in a longer version than the single) and ends with the equally upbeat More, More, More Of Love, it also has two Bacharach-David ballads including I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself, probably inspired by Dusty Springfield rather than Tommy Hunt's original, as the album also features You Don't Have To Say You Love Me, virtually her signature tune though its origins were as an Italian ballad by Pino Donaggio. Both of these, along with Walk On By, were recorded by Mickey Gentile in New York on 15 July 1966, another notable Motown date, though there were many. I'm not sure that the other voices on these three tracks are those of the Miracles.
The other A-side on this album is the Holland-Dozier-Holland song (Come Round Here) I'm The One You Need, a complex and beautifully sophisticated arrangement that nonetheless reached the national British Top Twenty, though the vocals were re-recorded for the stereo version of the album as included here (you can find the original mono version on The Ultimate Collection). Save Me, Oh Be My Love and Swept For You Baby were B-sides, all Smokey Robinson originals, leaving seven rarer tracks exclusive to this release, of which one more comes from Smokey's pen, all with his trademark panache and rhyme. Most of the record was recorded during 1966 for the album, but Beauty Is Only Skin Deep was produced by Norman Whitfield only a fortnight after the Temptations' original in April 1964 and presumably held over when theirs was chosen for single release.
These two albums on a single disc arguably represent a more rounded picture and better value for money than some retrospective compilations of the group.
I just noticed that the US version of this coupling (Going to Go-Go / Away We Go-Go) has three bonus tracks, including a live rendition of A Fork In The Road. Damn!
Away We A Go-Go is Great, Too!.......2001-07-12
I don't know about the other earlier reviewer from England, but he ought to have a 2nd listen. Away We A Go-Go is my 2nd favorite Smokey & The Miracles album, of original release. My 3rd all-time favorite Miracles' recording is the non-single, album track only "Can You Love A Poor Boy", written by one Stevie Wonder (!) to boot. "Swept For You Baby" also has A-side quality, and the whole album is very moving; and the covers are top-notch outstanding. They used to do "Walk On By" in their live shows way back when, too. "Save Me" is a greatest hit, sure enough. I love the arrangements, with more strings, but no sacrifice to the soul feel of its predecessor, "Going To A Go-Go", simply my favorite original soul album of all time. I respectfully and most strongly disagree with the Miracles fan from York; I say you cannot go wrong with this purchase. Buy it now, who knows if either of these two Smokey essentials will available again anytime soon. Not a bad track on either album. More than exquisite break-up song found here too: "Fork In The Road" on "Going..", and more great B-sides/should have been A-sides like "Since You've Won My Heart". Top-heavy, both, with musical riches.
One Good album, one fillout..........2001-06-07
It's a pity Tamla chose to release Away We Go-Go as a separate album way back in 66, because it's really mostly fill-out, I'm afraid. Although some of the tracks are vintage Smokey classics, the mind boggles what the two albums that surrounded it, Going to A-Go-Go and Make it Happen, could have been like if some of the best songs had replaced the fillouts there. Oh well.
Going to A-Go-Go, in sharp contrast, is one of the most brilliant albums of Smokey's Career. The Tracks of My Tears must surely rate among the best singles ever written, and Ooo Baby, Baby is perhaps the most intensely emotional track ever written. The album is not as good as Make it Happen, but this package (like all three) is well worth a purchase.
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ASIN: B00005Y964
Release Date: 2000-08-22 |
Tracks:
- ABC
- I Want You Back
- What Becomes of the Broken Hearted
- Tracks of My Tears
- My Girl
- Stop! In the Name of Love
- I Heard It Through the Grapevine
- Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
- Reach Out, I'll Be There
- Walk Away Renee
- It's the Same Old Song
- Dancing in the Street
- Nowhere to Run
- I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
- Tears of a Clown
- You Keep Me Hangin' On
- My Guy
- Third Finger Left Hand
- Jimmy Mack
- How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)
- Stop Her on Sight (S.O. S)
- Uptight (Everything's Alright)
- This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak for You)
- Baby Love
- Where Did Our Love Go
- Get Ready
- It Takes Two
- Needle in a Haystack
- Heatwave
- You Can't Hurry Love
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Going to a Go-Go/Tears of a Clown
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Manufacturer: Motown
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ASIN: B000008K2L
Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Tracks of My Tears
- Going to a Go-Go
- Ooo Baby Baby
- My Girl Has Gone
- In Case You Need Love
- Choosey Beggar
- Since You Won My Heart
- From Head to Toe
- All That's Good
- My Baby Changes Like the Weather
- Let Me Have Some
- Fork in the Road
- Soulful Shack
- Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage
- My Love for You
- I'm on the Outside (Looking In)
- Don't Think It's Me
- My Love for You
- More Love
- After You Put Back the Pieces (I'll Still Have a Broken Heart)
- It's a Good Feeling
- You Must Be Love
- Dancing's Alright
- Tears of a Clown
Customer Reviews:
OOO BABY BABY~CLASSIC SMOKEY & THE MIRACLES!!!.......2004-09-12
Smokey Robinson is one of the greatest singer/songwriters to come out of the classic Motown era and continues to this day to thrill audiences with his classic songs and soulful voice!!! For fans of this era or anyone who wants to experience the best from Smokey's legendary period, this two-fer offers two of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles albums from the great musical sixties. "Ooo Baby Baby" is a gorgeous classic with Smokey at his soulful peak along with the magnificent "Tracks Of My Tears" which is at the head of the list of great Smokey masterworks! When these original songs were released they were unlike anything ever and had a huge impact on everyone who loved romantic and soulful music. Smokey could rock out as demonstrated in the cooking stomper "Going To A Go-Go" which was a sixties party favorite. Smokey focused on hauntingly beautiful and romantic ballads and this collection has some of his best such as "My Girl Has Gone" and "The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage" which were both R&B hit singles. Huge success came again with "More Love" which features Smokey as his passionate best on a blockbuster hit that was so great that it became a hit all over again years later by Kim Carnes! Another mega-hit featured is the uniquely magical "The Tears Of A Clown" which shows again why Smokey is a legend!!! Grab this collection if you want to enjoy a supremely talented singer/songwriter while still with his great group whom are all at their soulful and artistic peak!!! Thank You Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for all the years of great music and keep the music flowing Smokey!!!!!
My smile looks out of place.......2004-08-27
This CD contains two albums by the Miracles. Going To a Go-Go was originally released in 1965. The Tears of a Clown was originally released in 1967 under the title Make It Happen, then it was rereleased under the title The Tears of a Clown in 1970, after "The Tears of a Clown" became a hit that year. These are typical Motown albums of the era, in that they contain a few hit songs and a lot of filler. Going to a Go-Go actually features more hits than usual, with four Top 20 hits ("Ooo Baby Baby", "The Tracks of My Tears", "My Girl Has Gone" and "Going to a Go-Go"). The Tears of a Clown has three hit songs ("The Tears of a Clown", "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" and "More Love"). The non-hit songs here are nothing special, for the most part. The best of the rest are probably "Choosey Beggar" and "The Soulful Shack". Should be of interest to Motown fans.
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Modern Sounds
The Repercussions
Manufacturer: ESCHE
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ASIN: B000CAKUUS
Release Date: 2005-03-01 |
Tracks:
- Everything Is Going to Be Alright Because We're All Going to Die
- Running Barefoot Through the Snow in Nothing But My Underwear...
- If Being Alone Was an Artform...
- Heather in Pleather
- It's in the Bag
- Where We're Going We Don't Need Roads
- Asshole Is an Asshole
- Curiosity Killed the Cat, But It Just Took My Thumb
- I'll Love You 'Til I Die (And Probably After That)
- Another Night in a Van
- Whole Lotta Empty
- I Saw You Smiling, So I Just Had to Kill You
- Bridges Aren't the Only Things That Are Burnt
- There's No I in Hoebag (Matt's 19th Nervous Breakdown)
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Don't Fear...
The Repercussions
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ASIN: B000CAKUQM
Release Date: 2005-03-01 |
Tracks:
- Heather in Pleather
- Life's Consolation Prize
- Do the Kenyon!
- Just This Once
- Big Dick Contest
- There's No I in Hoebag
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Going to a Go-Go
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
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ASIN: B000008K2M
Release Date: 1992-01-06 |
Tracks:
- Tracks of My Tears
- Going to a Go-Go
- Ooo Baby Baby
- My Girl Has Gone
- In Case You Need Love
- Choosey Beggar
- Since You Won My Heart
- From Head to Toe
- All That's Good
- My Baby Changes Like the Weather
- Let Me Have Some
- Fork in the Road
Product Description
-24 Tracks Total
-2 Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Records "Going To A Go-Go" & "The Tears Of A Clown" on 1 CD.
Music:
- Grandmix 2000 [Box set] [Import]
- Hard to Say I'm Sorry Pt.1 [CD-single] [Import]
- Heavy Vibes
- Here Comes the Sunburst Band [Import]
- Horizon [Import]
- I Love Bobby O [Import]
- Infinite Love Songs
- Lady Fantasy & Japanese Girl [CD-single] [Import]
- Live Another Life [CD-single] [Import]
- Living Legend [Import]
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