Time Out for Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Time Out for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles | ||||
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Released | July 10, 1969 | |||
Studio | Hitsville USA, Detroit | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 36:38 | |||
Label | Tamla TS 295 | |||
Producer | Smokey Robinson | |||
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles chronology | ||||
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Singles from Time Out for Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | ||||
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Time Out for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles is a 1969 album by Motown group The Miracles. It reached #25 on the Billboard Pop Album chart,[2] and contains four pop top 40 singles – "Doggone Right", "Abraham, Martin & John", "Here I Go Again" and the top ten pop smash hit "Baby, Baby Don't Cry". Time Out also features covers of Motown songs such as "For Once in My Life" and the Robinson-penned songs "My Girl" and "The Composer". Miracles members Marv Tarplin, Pete Moore and Ronnie White were also co-writers on several of the album's tracks, along with Motown staff songwriters Al Cleveland, Ron Miller and Terry Johnson. Miracle Pete Moore also co-produced two of the album's tracks, a prelude to his later production of the Miracles' massively successful platinum-selling City of Angels album of a few years later. The Miracles' Time Out album was originally released on CD in 1986, and again in 2001 coupled with their album, Four in Blue.
Track listing
[edit]Side one
[edit]- "Doggone Right" (Robinson, Marvin Tarplin, Al Cleveland)
- "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" (Cleveland, Terry "Buzzy" Johnson, Robinson)
- "My Girl" (Robinson, Ronald White)
- "The Hurt Is Over" (Robinson, Tarplin, Cleveland)
- "You Neglect Me" (Robinson, Tarplin)
- "Abraham, Martin & John" (Dick Holler)
Side two
[edit]- "For Once in My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden)
- "Once I Got To Know You (Couldn't Help But Love You)" (Johnson, Robinson)
- "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb)
- "The Composer" (Robinson)
- "Here I Go Again" (Robinson, Johnson, Cleveland, Warren Moore)
- "I'll Take You Anyway That You Come" (Robinson)
Personnel
[edit]The Miracles
[edit]- Smokey Robinson – lead vocals
- Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers, Warren "Pete" Moore (co-lead on "Doggone Right"), Claudette Robinson – backing vocals
- Marv Tarplin – guitar
- Smokey Robinson – producer, album executive producer
- Warren "Pete" Moore and Terry "Buzzy" Johnson – co-producer on "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" and "Here I Go Again"
- Funk Brothers – other instrumentations
References
[edit]- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ "The Miracles - Chart history". www.billboard.com. Retrieved June 27, 2017.