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The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey

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Released
  
November 11, 1963

Artist
  
The Miracles

Label
  
Tamla

Length
  
28:42

Release date
  
11 November 1963

Genres
  
Soul music, Pop music

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The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey (1963)
  
I Like It Like That (1964) (Withdrawn from US) --- Greatest Hits from the Beginning (1965)

Producers
  
Lamont Dozier, Smokey Robinson

Similar
  
The Fabulous Miracles, Cookin' with the Miracles, I Like It Like That, The Miracles Recorded, One Dozen Roses

The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey is a 1963 album by The Miracles for the Tamla (Motown) label. It includes the group's Top 10 smash single "Mickey's Monkey", written and produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland. "Mickey's Monkey" popularized "The Monkey" as a novelty dance, and has been covered by several artists, including The Hollies, The Young Rascals and John Mellencamp. Also included is another H-D-H dance-oriented single, "I Gotta Dance to Keep From Crying", a Billboard Top 40 hit, which inspired a cover version by The Who.

Contents

Much of the rest of the album is made up of cover versions of other popular dance songs, including "The Twist", "Twist and Shout" and The Contours' Motown hit "Do You Love Me". Miracles member Bobby Rogers co-wrote a song "Dancin' Holiday" for the album.

The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey was released on CD by Motown Records in 1986, in a two-for-one set with their Away We A Go-Go album, and again by itself in a 1992 release, but both releases have since gone out of print.

Side one

  1. "Mickey's Monkey" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) – 2:46
  2. "Dance What You Wanna" (James Alexander, Sam Cooke, Clifton White) – 2:45
  3. "The Wah-Watusi" (Dave Appell, Kal Mann) – 2:38
  4. "The Twist" (Hank Ballard) – 2:29
  5. "Dancin' Holiday" (Diane Rogers, Fred Smith, Zelda Samuels) – 2:14
  6. "Land of a Thousand Dances" (Chris Kenner) – 2:26

Side two

  1. "I Gotta Dance to Keep From Crying" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) – 2:39
  2. "The Monkey Time" (Curtis Mayfield) – 2:51
  3. "The Groovey Thing" (Smokey Robinson) – 2:43
  4. "Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Russell) – 2:03
  5. "Do You Love Me" (Berry Gordy, Jr.) – 2:39

Personnel

The Miracles

  • Smokey Robinson - lead vocals
  • Claudette Rogers Robinson - lead vocals (on "The Wah-Watusi"), background vocals
  • Bobby Rogers - background vocals
  • Ronnie White - background vocals
  • Pete Moore - background vocals
  • Marv Tarplin - guitar

    • Production

  • The Funk Brothers - instrumentation
  • Smokey Robinson - producer
  • Brian Holland - producer
  • Lamont Dozier - producer

    • Songs

    1Mickey's Monkey2:47
    2Dance What You Wanna2:47
    3The Wah-Watusi2:41

    References

    The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey Wikipedia
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