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Pure Smokey

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Released
  
March 15, 1974

Pure Smokey (1974)
  
A Quiet Storm (1975)

Release date
  
15 March 1974

Label
  
Tamla

Length
  
39:29

Artist
  
Smokey Robinson

Producer
  
Smokey Robinson

Genres
  
Soul music, Funk

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Recorded
  
September - December 1973

Similar
  
Smokey Robinson albums, Soul music albums

Pure Smokey is Smokey Robinson's second post-Miracles album, released in 1974. This release contains the unique and emotionally compelling hit single "Virgin Man". Several songs were written by Robinson and co-written by fellow Miracle Marv Tarplin, who left the group a year after Robinson's departure to join him in California and assist him in his solo projects.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Smokey Robinson except "A Tattoo".

All tracks arranged by Russ Turner, Gene Page, and Smokey Robinson, except where indicated.

  1. "It's Her Turn to Live" (Robinson, Tarplin)
  2. "The Love Between Me and My Kids"
  3. "Asleep on My Love" (Robinson, Tarplin)
  4. "I Am I Am" (Robinson)
  5. "Just Passing Through" (Tarplin, Janie Bradford, Cleveland)
  6. "Virgin Man" (Robinson, Jones)
  7. "She's Only a Baby Herself" (Robinson)
  8. "Fulfill Your Need" (Robinson, Tarplin, Moffett)
  9. "A Tattoo" (Robinson)

"I Am, I Am" arranged by Smokey Robinson and Gene Page

"A Tattoo" produced and arranged by Smokey Robinson and Willie Hutch

Personnel

  • Smokey Robinson - vocals
  • Gene Page - arranger
  • Bobbye Hall - percussion
  • Henry Davis - bass guitar
  • Jeffrey Osborne - drums
  • Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin - guitar
  • Russ Turner - keyboards
  • Marvin Tarplin - guitar

    • Songs

    1It's Her Turn to Live3:10
    2The Love Between Me and My Kids2:55
    3Asleep on My Love4:00

    References

    Pure Smokey Wikipedia
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