Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

Compact Command Performances

18 Greatest Hits (1983)





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Scoring over 40 hits in the R&B Top 40 charts, the Miracles started out as the Five Chimes in the mid-'50s while the members were still in high school. The Detroit vocal group consisted of William "Smokey" Robinson, Warren "Pete" Moore, Clarence "Humble" Dawson, Donald Wicker, and James "Rat" Grice. Not too long after the group formed, Wicker and Grice left and were replaced by cousins Emerson "Sonny" Rogers and Bobby Rogers, who both sang tenor, and baritonist Ronnie White was in Dawson's place. The vocal quintet then changed their name to the Matadors, and in 1956 Claudette Rogers joined the band after her brother Sonny Rogers was drafted. The Matadors auditioned for Jackie Wilson's manager, Nat Tarnapol, in 1956. Although Tarnapol wasn't interested, finding the group too similar to the Platters, Jackie Wilson's songwriter Berry Gordy Jr. was, and he soon began producing the band, who now went by the name the Miracles. Gordy produced their first single, "Get a Job," which was issued by the N.Y. label End Records in 1958.





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Tracklist:



01.-I Shop Around

02.-You've Really Got A Hold On Me

03.-I'll Try Something New

04.-(You Can) Depend On Me

05.-Mickey's Monkey

06.-The Tracks Of My Tears

07.-Going To A Go-Go

08.-I Second That Emotion

09.-If You Can Want

10.-Baby, Baby, Don't Cry

11.-Doggone Right

12.-The Tears Of A Clown

13.-I Don't Blame You At All

14.-Baby Come Close

15.-Baby That's Backatcha

16.-Quiet Storm

17.-Cruisin'

18.-Being With You









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