Released February 25, 1980 Label Motown Warm Thoughts
(1980) Being with You
(1981) | Genre R&B Producer Smokey Robinson | |
Warm Thoughts is a 1980 album by Smokey Robinson. It features the top 40 hit, "Let Me Be the Clock". The album was arranged by Reginald "Sonny" Burke.This album also featured the semi-autobiographical tune "Wine, Women and Song", which proved to be the closest thing to a Miracles reunion that occurred in the 1980s...with Smokey doing a duet with his then wife, former Miracle Claudette Robinson,and Miracle Marv Tarplin, with whom he shared songwriting credits, on guitar.The song "Travellin' Thru'" was written by Smokey's real-life sister,Rose Ella Jones, and two songs written by Robinson with fellow Motown artist, Stevie Wonder, and singer, songwriter, and former Starsky and Hutch star, David Soul.This album was a huge success, reaching the Top 20 of The Billboard 200 Pop Album chart,peaking at #14, and the Top 10 of Billboard's R&B Album Chart, peaking at #4.
Track listing
All tracks composed by Smokey Robinson, except where indicated.
- "Let Me Be the Clock"
- "Heavy on Pride"
- "Into Each Rain Some Life Must Fall" (Doris Fisher, Allan Roberts)
- "Wine, Women and Song" (Robinson, Marv Tarplin, Pamela Moffett)
- "Melody Man" (Robinson, Stevie Wonder)
- "What's in Your Life for Me" (Robinson, David Soul)
- "I Want to Be Your Love"
- "Travellin' Thru'" (Rose Ella Jones)