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Smokey Robinson and the Art of Pop

Mitchell Cohen, Music Aficionado, August 2019

"I DON'T LIKE you, but I love you." Those eight words, the ones that start off 'You've Really Got a Hold on Me', were the lyrics that drew me into the musical world of Smokey Robinson. Sung in an aching high tenor, they embodied the churning emotion of infatuation, the complexity of the romantic crush.

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