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Smokey Robinson live album released in 1978.
Track listing
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The Tracks of My Tears
"The Tracks of My Tears" is a song written by Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, and Marv Tarplin. It is a multiple award-winning 1965 hit R&B song originally recorded by their group, The Miracles, on Motown's Tamla label. The Miracles' million-sell ...
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#"Love So Fine"
#"Baby That's Backatcha"
#"The Agony and the Ecstasy"
#"Quiet Storm" (Dialogue)
#"Why You Wanna See My Bad Side"
#"Daylight and Darkness"
#"Madam X"
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The Tears of a Clown
"The Tears of a Clown" is a song written by Hank Cosby, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder and originally recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for the Tamla Records label subsidiary of Motown, first appearing on the 1967 album '' Make It H ...
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#"Bad Girl/You Can Depend on Me"
#"Here I Go Again"
#"Mickey's Monkey"
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You Really Got a Hold on Me
"You've Really Got a Hold on Me" is a song written by Smokey Robinson, which became a 1962 Top 10 hit single for the Miracles. One of the Miracles' most covered tunes, this million-selling song received a 1998 Grammy Hall of Fame Award. It has als ...
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#"Shoe Soul"
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I Second That Emotion
"I Second That Emotion" is a 1967 song written by Smokey Robinson and Al Cleveland. First charting as a hit for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles on the Tamla/Motown label in 1967, "I Second That Emotion" was later a hit single for the group du ...
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#"Ooo Baby Baby"
#"Vitamin U"
#"Baby Come Close"
Personnel
* Smokey Robinson – lead vocals
* Reginald "Sonny" Burke – keyboards
*
Ron Rancifer – keyboards
*
Marv Tarplin
Marvin Tarplin (June 13, 1941 – September 30, 2011) was an American musician, best known as the guitarist for the Miracles from the 1950s through the early 1970s. He was one of the group's original members and co-wrote several of their bigges ...
– guitar
*
Wah Wah Watson
Melvin M. Ragin (December 8, 1950 – October 24, 2018), known professionally as "Wah Wah Watson", was an American guitarist who was a member of The Funk Brothers, the studio band for Motown Records.
Career
A native of Richmond, Virginia, Melvi ...
– guitar
*
James Jamerson
James Lee Jamerson (January 29, 1936 – August 2, 1983) was an American bass player. He was the uncredited bassist on most of the Motown Records hits in the 1960s and early 1970s (Motown did not list session musician credits on their releases ...
– bass guitar
* Wayne Tweed – bass guitar
* Scotty Harris – drums
* James "Alibe" Sledge – congas, backing vocals
* Ivory Stone Davis – kettledrums, timpani, backing vocals
* Fred Smith – saxophone, flute
* Michael Jacobsen – saxophone, cello
* Patricia Henley – backing vocals
Production
* Producers – Smokey Robinson (All tracks); Berry Gordy, Mike and Brenda Sutton (Track 15).
* Recording Engineers –
Wally Heider
Wally Heider (''né'' Wallace Beck Heider; 20 May 1922 Sheridan, Oregon – 22 March 1989) was an American recording engineer and recording studio owner who refined and advanced the art of studio and remote recording and was instrumental in recor ...
and Russ Terrana
* Sound Engineers – Michael Lizzio and Danny Muldoon.
* Mixing – Michael Lizzio and Smokey Robinson
* Mix Assistant – Ernestine Madison
* Sound Coordinator – Randy Dunlap
* Mastered by Jack Andrews
* Mixed and Mastered at Motown Recording Studios (Los Angeles, CA).
* Product Manager – Brenda M. Boyce
* Art Direction and Design – Norm Ung
* Lettering – Debbie Ross
* Photography – Bob Holland (front cover) and Neil Zlozower (back cover/inside).
* Wardrobe Coordinator – Barbara Ramsey
References
Smokey Robinson albums
Albums produced by Smokey Robinson
1978 live albums
Motown live albums
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