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Time Out for Smokey Robinson and The Miracles

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Released
  
July 10, 1969

Length
  
36:38

Artist
  
The Miracles

Producer
  
Smokey Robinson

Genre
  
Soul music

Recorded
  
Hitsville USA, Detroit

Time Out for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles (1969)
  
Four in Blue (1969)

Release date
  
July 1969

Label
  
Tamla

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Similar
  
The Miracles albums, Soul music albums

Time Out for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles is a 1969 album by Motown group The Miracles. It reached #25 on the Billboard Pop Album chart, and contains four pop top 40 singles: "Doggone Right", "Abraham, Martin & John", "Here I Go Again" and the top ten pop smash hit "Baby, Baby Don't Cry". Time Out also features covers of Motown songs such as "For Once in My Life" and the Robinson-penned songs "My Girl" and "The Composer". Miracles members Marv Tarplin, Pete Moore and Ronnie White were also co-writers on several of the album's tracks, along with Motown staff songwriters Al Cleveland, Ron Miller and Terry Johnson. Miracle Pete Moore also co-produced two of the album's tracks, a prelude to his later production of the Miracles' massively successful platinum-selling City of Angels album of a few years later. The Miracles' Time Out album was originally released on CD in 1986, and again in 2001 coupled with their album, Four in Blue.

Contents

Track listing

All songs produced by Smokey Robinson, except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Doggone Right" (Robinson, Marvin Tarplin, Al Cleveland)
  2. "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" (Cleveland, Terry "Buzzy" Johnson, Robinson)
  3. "My Girl" (Robinson, Ronald White)
  4. "The Hurt Is Over" (Robinson, Tarplin, Cleveland)
  5. "You Neglect Me" (Robinson, Tarplin)
  6. "Abraham, Martin & John" (Dick Holler)

Side two

  1. "For Once in My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden)
  2. "Once I Got To Know You (Couldn't Help But Love You)" (Johnson, Robinson)
  3. "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb)
  4. "The Composer" (Robinson)
  5. "Here I Go Again" (Robinson, Johnson, Cleveland, Warren Moore)
  6. "I'll Take You Anyway That You Come" (Robinson)

Personnel (The Miracles)

  • Smokey Robinson: lead vocals
  • Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers, Warren "Pete" Moore (co-lead on "Doggone Right"), Claudette Robinson: backing vocals
  • Marv Tarplin: guitar

    • Other credits

  • Smokey Robinson: producer, album executive producer
  • Warren "Pete" Moore and Terry "Buzzy" Johnson: co-producer on "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" and "Here I Go Again"
  • Funk Brothers: other instrumentations

    • Songs

    1Doggone Right2:59
    2Baby - Baby Don't Cry3:59
    3My Girl3:12

    References

    Time Out for Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Wikipedia
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