Released January 26, 1968 Length 32:30 Release date 26 January 1968 Genre Soul music | Recorded 1965–1967 Artist The Miracles Label Tamla | |
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Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
(1968) Special Occasion
(1968) Producers Smokey Robinson, Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Frank Wilson Similar The Miracles albums, Soul music albums | ||
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 is the second greatest hits album for The Miracles (a.k.a. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles), released in 1968 on Motown Records' Tamla label. It contained the most popular singles from the successful Going to a Go-Go, Away We A Go-Go and Make It Happen albums of the 1965–1967 period. It also featured the 1964 non-album single "Come On Do The Jerk", and two B-sides, "Choosey Beggar" and "Save Me". The hit single "I Second That Emotion" was new to album. This album reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, peaking at #7, and peaked at #2 on Billboard's R&B album chart. Ten of the albums' 12 songs were written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, Marv Tarplin, Bobby Rogers, and the late Ronnie White .
Contents
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 was voted the 166th best album of all time in Paul Gambaccini's 1978 poll of 50 prominent American and English rock critics.
Side one
- "Going to a Go-Go" (Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore, Robert Rogers, Marvin Tarplin)
- "The Tracks of My Tears" (Robinson, Moore, Tarplin)
- "I Second That Emotion" (Robinson, Al Cleveland)
- "Ooo Baby Baby" (Robinson, Moore)
- "My Girl Has Gone" (Robinson, Moore, Tarplin, Ronald White)
- "Come On Do The Jerk" (Robinson, Moore, White, Rogers)
Side two
- "Whole Lot Of Shakin' In My Heart (Since I Met You)" (Frank Wilson)
- "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" (Robinson, Tarplin)
- "(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
- "More Love" (Robinson)
- "Choosey Beggar" (Robinson, Moore)
- "Save Me" (Robinson, Rogers, Moore)
Personnel
Other Instruments
Producers
Songs
1Going to a Go Go2:44
2The Tracks of My Tears2:52
3I Second That Emotion2:43