2023 Charity Shop Purchases #10 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Tears of a Clown -The Collection
Another visit to Troon and another cheap and cheerful Soul compilation. Smokey Robinson is of course synonymous with Motown . As well as being the frontman of the Miracles he is a great songwriter and producer and for a while was Vice President of Motown second only to Berry Gordy .
However the above album is not on Motown but rather was released in2012 on the budget label Spectrum as indeed were many other Motown albums. Bought to compliment my slightly battered vinyl copy of The Tracks of My Tears - the Best of Smokey Robinson - Writer & Performer. There will be many others out there
Those two album titles are taken from two of his three biggest songs the third one being I Second That Emotion.
Tempting as it is I have decided not to feature them today as you will all be familiar with them. Rather I've gone for three lesser well know numbers but rest assured they are still excellent.
Enough about Smokey - how about a shout out for the Miracles - let's hear it for Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, Ronnie White, Marv Tarplin and Smokey's wife Claudette. In addition to Claudette I'm not sure who is missing from the album cover.
They're all classics.
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DeleteHe did like writing about Tears did Smokey.
ReplyDeleteNice to hear something from him that is new to me. This kind of music just never seems to date.