Smokey Robinson & The Miracles 4 Albums On 2 CDS (2-CD)

Auf allen vier Alben ist die klassische Miracles-Besetzung Smokey Robinson, Claudette Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Ronnie White, Pete Moore und Gitarrist Marv Tarplin zu hören, die die Gruppe in der kreativ fruchtbaren, musikalisch reichen Zeit vor Smokeys außergewöhnlicher Solokarriere aufnahm.

• What Love Has Joined Together (Erweiterte Ausgabe)
  
• A Pocket Full Of Miracles
  
• Ein Dutzend Rosen
  
• Flying High Together
  

Die vier Alben enthalten Robinson-Originale, Kollaborationen mit Stevie Wonder und Syreeta Wright, Henry Cosby, Nick Ashford und Valerie Simpson und Johnny Bristol sowie wunderschön neu arrangierte Coverversionen klassischer Hits von Bacharach und David, Thom Bell und Linda Creed, Paul Simon, George Harrison und Smokey selbst - ein musikalischer Leckerbissen für Motown-Fans überall.

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

I Second That Emotion

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

I Second That Emotion

Smokey Robinson had found himself a new songwriting partner. One of his first collaborations with Motown newcomer Al Cleveland (a former member of The Halos, a New York doo-wop group whose Nag was a '61 hit) was yet another smash for Smokey's Miracles, whose non-stop hit streak in 1966-67 had included Going To A Go-Go, (Come 'Round Here) I'm The One You Need, The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage, and the impossibly tender More Love.

Smokey and Al accidentally stumbled across the clever title of one of the Miracles' top all-time sellers as Robinson tracked down just the right gift for his wife Claudette, who still contributed her sweet harmonies to the group (rounded out by Bobby Rogers, Ronnie White, and Pete Moore) when they entered the studio.

"We were Christmas shopping one day in a department store," says Smokey. "You know, there's an old saying, 'I second the motion.' So we were talking to this girl behind the counter about something, and Al says, 'Yeah, I second that emotion!' And we started laughing, because he had made that grammatical error." Thanks to co-producer Cleveland's slip of the lip, that clerk behind the jewelry counter at Hudson's unwittingly witnessed the inspiration for an enduring soul classic.

I Second That Emotion was brisk and danceable, with Funk Brother Eddie Willis and The Miracles' Marv Tarplin's liquid guitar runs winding around another sinuous James Jamerson bass line, more sly wordplay from Smokey, and the Miracles' delicious harmonies. It was their third R&B chart-topper (Shop Around and You've Really Got A Hold On Me preceded it) and sailed to #4 pop, the group's highest placement there since their very first hit for the fledgling Motown empire, Shop Around, back in 1961.

- Bill Dahl -

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