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Smokey Robinson
William "Smokey" Robinson Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B and soul singer, songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. He was the founder and frontman of the pioneering Motown vocal group the Miracles, for which he ...
live album released in 1978.
Track listing
#"
The Tracks of My Tears
"The Tracks of My Tears" is a 1965 song originally recorded by the Miracles on Motown Record's Tamla subsidiary label . It was composed by Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, and Marv Tarplin. This million-selling, multiple award- ...
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#"Love So Fine"
#"Baby That's Backatcha"
#"The Agony and the Ecstasy"
#"Quiet Storm"
#"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 ...
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#"Bad Girl/You Can Depend on Me"
#"Here I Go Again"
#"Mickey's Monkey"
#"
You Really Got a Hold on Me"
#"Shoe Soul"
#"
I Second That Emotion"
#"
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 ...
– guitars
*
Wah Wah Watson – guitars
*
James Jamerson
James Lee Jamerson (January 29, 1936 – August 2, 1983) was an American bassist. 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 un ...
– bass guitar
* Wayne Tweed – bass guitar
* Scotty Harris – drums
* James "Alibe" Sledge –
conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba. Congas are staved like barrels and classified into three types: quinto (lead drum, highest), tres dos or tres golpes (middle), and tumba or salidor (lowest ...
s, backing vocals
* Ivory Stone Davis –
kettledrums,
timpani
Timpani (; ) or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion instrument, percussion family. A type of drum categorised as a hemispherical drum, they consist of a Membranophone, membrane called a drumhead, ...
, backing vocals
* Fred Smith – saxophone,
flute
The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...
* 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 (''née'' 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 r ...
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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