Smokey Robinson has one of those instantly identifiable voices. When he whoops and hollers, as in \u201cShop Around,\u201d one of his greatest hits, his voice is all energy and motion. With a softer song \u2013 say, \u201cI\u2019ll Try Something New\u201d \u2013 his voice is a caress of silk as soft as a lover\u2019s sheet.<\/p>\n
Throughout his career, both with The Miracles and solo, Smokey moved musically with grace and aplomb from song to song, create little mini-masterpieces of pop music: \u201cOoo Baby Baby,\u201d \u201cThe Tracks Of My Tears,\u201d \u201cThe Tears Of A Clown,\u201d \u201cI Second That Emotion,\u201d \u201cQuiet Storm,\u201d \u201cCruisin\u2019,\u201d and \u201cJust To See Her,\u201d among countless others, are all perfection.<\/p>\n
And that is what\u2019s great about Gold<\/i>, this two-disc collection that covers both parts of Smokey Robinson\u2019s career \u2013 it\u2019s all <\/i>good: all of the hits and none of the filler Motown releases are often known for. <\/p>\n
But it\u2019s not just the romantic smashes that came to define Smokey. He was also a prolific songwriter not only for himself but for other artists, and he served as a vice president for Motown Records. He, as much as Berry Gordy and more than other label artists from the day, shaped what has become known as \u201cthe Motown sound.\u201d<\/p>\n
You like the balladeer? It\u2019s all here in hits such as \u201cI\u2019ll Try Something New,\u201d \u201cOoo Baby Baby,\u201d and \u201cOne Heartbeat.\u201d<\/p>\n
How about the funkier Smokey? Yep, \u201cMickey\u2019s Monkey,\u201d \u201cGoing To A Go-Go,\u201d \u201cI Second That Emotion,\u201d \u201cBaby That\u2019s Backatcha,\u201d \u201cEbony Eyes\u201d (with Rick James) are all present as well.<\/p>\n
Pop smashes? \u201cShop Around,\u201d \u201cThe Tracks Of My Tears,\u201d \u201cThe Tears Of A Clown,\u201d \u201cI Second That Emotion,\u201d \u201cBeing With You,\u201d and the incomparable Smokey and The Miracles track, \u201cMore Love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every song on this collection is a hit, some more successful than others, but each one helps tell the complete story of Smokey Robinson and The Miracles. For all but the completists, Gold<\/i> is the collection you need. It has every master hit as well as all of the important lesser hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":29304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8185],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-40853","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-smokey-robinson-the-miracles","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/40853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=40853"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=40853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}