Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
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Live Review by Guy Stevens, Record Mirror, 4 April 1964
ON STAGE WITH THE R&B LEGENDS ...
Motown: Will 'HITSVILLE U.S.A.' Hit Britain Now?
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 13 June 1964
THEY SAY that there's not much chance for American hits here now. But nevertheless the multi-million dollar American label Tamla has scored its FIRST hit ...
Mr. Gordy has a formula for success — 'It is Love'
Profile and Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 10 October 1964
THE BEATLES have done terrible things to the American record industry. Nobody knows what to record any longer. Should they try to reproduce what is ...
Claudette: Alone among the Miracles
Interview by Maureen Cleave, The Evening Standard, 5 December 1964
CLAUDETTE MUST be one of the few women who got the job when she stood in for her brother. She has been standing in now ...
A Warning To The Tamla-Motown Visitors From Their Biggest Fan!
Interview by Ian Dove, New Musical Express, 19 March 1965
BRITAIN'S Mr. Tamla-Motown — he's Dave Godin, organiser of the Tamla-Motown Appreciation Society — was walking around warning the Supremes, Martha and the Vandellas, the ...
America Hits Back With Tamla Motown Attack
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 March 1965
IN RETALIATION to the British craze sweeping the States, America launches its biggest-ever campaign to bring back the Yanks into the British charts in the ...
Class and Soul Spell Success For Miracles
Profile and Interview by Carol Deck, KRLA Beat, 11 December 1965
WHEN THE Miracles are performing in a club you don't eat. You don't drink. You don't even think. You just feel. ...
The Other Smokey Robinson — Songwriter
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 14 October 1966
BACK IN 1957 Bill "Smokey" Robinson, then 17, bumped into Berry Gordy Jr. Smokey had a stack of about 100 songs he had written, and ...
Tempo: R&B and Jazz Album Reviews
Review by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, November 1966
FOR SOME reason, recordings of live rock and roll shows are selling very well. You can hardly hear the music above the enthusiastic audience response ...
Britain's Lulu Looks at America and the Hemlines
Report and Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 4 August 1967
TO US LULU is the name of a comic strip character, but to the British Lulu is the name of an adorable 18-year-old pop singer. ...
The Miracle They Call Smokey And How He Climbed from the Ghetto To the Top of His Musical World
Interview by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 6 August 1967
IN 1946 AT Dwyer Elementary School in Detroit, a six-year-old first-grader, wearing a pasted-on beard and white high-top shoes, played Uncle Remus in a school ...
Loraine Alterman on Pop Records: A Powerful New Kind of 'Suite'
Review by Loraine Alterman, Detroit Free Press, 8 October 1967
TWO EXCELLENT new albums show how far the best contemporary song-writing and record making has come from the June-moon-spoon days. One is Of Cabbages and ...
Tamla's Miracles Break Through At Last!
Report by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 January 1968
THE FIRST of the Tamla Motown groups, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, have finally made it big in the British charts with their runaway transatlantic ...
Smokey Robinson: The Miracle Of Motown
Interview by Jim Delehant, Hit Parader, April 1968
BILL "SMOKEY" Robinson, the leader of the Miracles, couldn't decide between athletics and engineering. At Northern High School in Detroit (where all the Miracles were ...
Smokey and His Associates Work Hit Parade Miracles
Profile by Mike Gormley, The Ottawa Journal, 31 May 1968
MOTOWN'S MOST VERSATILE ACT ...
Profile and Interview by Michael Lydon, Rolling Stone, 28 September 1968
SMOKEY ROBINSON is the reigning genius of Top-40. Since the Beatles and the Beach Boys dropped out of the single-then-follow-up-album pattern aimed at the AM ...
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: Special Occasion (Tamla Motown Stereo STML 11089)
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, 18 January 1969
'Yester Love'; 'If You Can Want'; 'Special Occasion'; 'Everybody Needs Love'; 'Just Losing You'; 'Give Her Up'; 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'; 'Yesterday'; 'Your ...
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: Mr. D's, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 6 March 1969
The Soul Shows Through ...
Question-Time with Smokey of the Miracles
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 21 June 1969
KNOWING THAT Smokey Robinson is one of the five vice-presidents of the fabulously successful Tamla Motown label, I expected him to be a bustling businessman, ...
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 9 September 1969
Smokey Robinson Crew Performs in Inglewood ...
Smokey Robinson, Proving That Miracles Still Happen
Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 14 February 1970
WILLIAM 'Smokey' Robinson is the lead singer of the Miracles, vice president of Motown Records and the man Dylan has described as "America's greatest living ...
Smokey and Miracles Used To Record Two Songs in Three Hours
Profile and Interview by Alan Smith, New Musical Express, 15 August 1970
BOB DYLAN once referred to Smokey Robinson as "America's greatest living poet," a statement which is not quite so bizarre as it might at first ...
Smokey Can Do All The Tamla Jobs —
Interview by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 12 September 1970
– but still finds time for his golf! ...
Do You Really Know What Soul IS?
Comment by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 24 October 1970
I BELIEVE that the sudden rash of hit records by black singers is a flash in the pan, and doesn't mean anything in the long ...
The Miracle of Smokey Robinson
Profile and Interview by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, 25 September 1971
ABOUT twelve years ago, Berry Gordy told Smokey Robinson how to write songs: "Every song should have an idea, tell a story, mean something." Smokey ...
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: From The Beginning…
Report and Interview by Dave Marsh, Creem, April 1972
SMOKEY IS LEAVING the Miracles. This may mean more to those of us in Detroit, who've watched the Miracles almost, but never quite, make the ...
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Al Green, the Whispers: Cow Palace, Daly City CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 17 June 1972
Smokey Fans Spoil Farewell ...
Smokey Robinson: Motown And Mafia, And Why He's Quitting The Miracles
Interview by Danny Holloway, New Musical Express, 15 July 1972
SMOKEY ROBINSON is a hell of a lot more than just a giant of soul or Motown. For more than a decade, his original and ...
No stop for Old Smokey, all ready to go
Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 12 May 1973
LOS ANGELES: If we hadn't been formally introduced by a super cool hip slingin' secretary I very much doubt that I'd have recognised Smokey Robinson. ...
Audio transcript of interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages Audio, November 1977
This is a transcript of Cliff's interview with Smokey. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Interview by Michael Goldberg, Rolling Stone, 5 November 1987
Motown's slogan was "The Sound of Young America" not "The Sound of Black America." ...
Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: 35th Anniversary Collection
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, July 1994
AS FAR AS I KNOW, Smokey Robinson and Frank Zappa never met. However, if they had, five'll getcha ten they'd have ended up talking ...
The T.A.M.I. Show: Rock's Greatest Concert Movie Ever?
Retrospective and Interview by Richie Unterberger, Record Collector, May 2010
Richie Unterberger celebrates a legendary who's who of rock and soul royalty caught live in their prime, and now finally available on DVD. ...
Obituary by Dave Laing, The Guardian, 18 July 2012
One of the last surviving members of the Funk Brothers, the backbone of Tamla Motown ...
Smokey Robinson and the Art of Pop
Retrospective by 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 ...
see also Miracles, The
see also Smokey Robinson
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