Time Out for Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
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Time Out for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles is a 1969 album by Motown group Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. The album reached #25 on the Billboard
Pop Album chart. It contains four pop Top 40 singles: "Doggone Right
", "Abraham, Martin & John", "Here I Go Again
", and the Top 10 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 this album's tracks, along with Motown staff songwriters Al Cleveland
Ron Miller
, & Terry Johnson. Miracle Pete Moore also co-produced 2 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
.
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Pop Album chart. It contains four pop Top 40 singles: "Doggone Right
Doggone Right
"Doggone Right" is a 1969 single recorded by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles for the Tamla label. Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Marv Tarplin along with Motown staff songwriter Al Cleveland and produced by Robinson, the single peaked at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the...
", "Abraham, Martin & John", "Here I Go Again
Here I Go Again (Miracles song)
"Here I Go Again" was a 1969 hit single by The Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label subsidiary. It was taken from their top-25 Pop album Time Out for Smokey Robinson & The Miracles from that year, and was the flip side of their hit single, "Doggone Right"...
", and the Top 10 pop smash hit "Baby, Baby Don't Cry
Baby, Baby Don't Cry
"Baby, Baby Don't Cry", released in December 1968, is a 1969 single recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for Motown Records' Tamla label. The composition was written by Smokey Robinson, Motown staff writers Al Cleveland and Terry Johnson, a former member of The Flamingos...
". Time Out also features covers of Motown songs such as "For Once in My Life
For Once in My Life
"For Once in My Life" is a pop song written by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden for Motown Records' Jobete publishing company in 1967 . The composition was originally recorded by Jean DuShon, while other artists, such as Tony Bennett and The Temptations, recorded slow ballad versions of the song...
" and the Robinson-penned songs "My Girl" and "The Composer". Miracles members Marv Tarplin
Marv Tarplin
Marvin "Marv" Tarplin was an American guitarist and songwriter, best known as the guitarist for The Miracles from the 1950s through the early 1970s. He was one of the group's original members and co-wrote several of their biggest hits, including the 2007 Grammy Hall Of Fame inducted "The Tracks...
, Pete Moore
Pete Moore
Pete Moore is an African American soul singer, record producer, and songwriter, notable as the bass singer for Motown group The Miracles from 1955 onwards, and is one of the group's original members...
, and Ronnie White were also co-writers on several of this album's tracks, along with Motown staff songwriters Al Cleveland
Al Cleveland
Al Cleveland is a former American songwriter for the Motown label. Among his most popular co-compositions are 1967's "I Second That Emotion" performed by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and 1971's "What's Going On" performed by Marvin Gaye.Cleveland was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United...
Ron Miller
Ron Miller
Ron Miller may refer to:* Ron W. Miller, son-in-law of Walt Disney and CEO and president of Walt Disney Productions in the 1970s and 80s* Ronald H. Miller, author and a professor of religion at Lake Forest College* Ron E...
, & Terry Johnson. Miracle Pete Moore also co-produced 2 of the album's tracks, a prelude to his later production of The Miracles' massively successful Platinum-selling City of Angels
City of Angels (album)
City of Angels is an album by the Motown soul group The Miracles, released on Motown Records' Tamla label in September 1975. The group's fourth album recorded after replacing lead singer Smokey Robinson with Billy Griffin in 1972, City of Angels is a concept album, depicting of a man from "Anytown,...
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
Four in Blue
Four In Blue is a 1969 album by Motown R&B group The Miracles, issued on the label's Tamla Records subsidiary in the U.S., and the Tamla-Motown label elsewhere in the world, , and was the final Miracles album of the 1960s...
.
Side one
- "Doggone RightDoggone Right"Doggone Right" is a 1969 single recorded by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles for the Tamla label. Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Marv Tarplin along with Motown staff songwriter Al Cleveland and produced by Robinson, the single peaked at number 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the...
" (Smokey RobinsonSmokey RobinsonWilliam "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...
, Marvin Tarplin, Al ClevelandAl ClevelandAl Cleveland is a former American songwriter for the Motown label. Among his most popular co-compositions are 1967's "I Second That Emotion" performed by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and 1971's "What's Going On" performed by Marvin Gaye.Cleveland was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United...
) - "Baby, Baby Don't CryBaby, Baby Don't Cry"Baby, Baby Don't Cry", released in December 1968, is a 1969 single recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for Motown Records' Tamla label. The composition was written by Smokey Robinson, Motown staff writers Al Cleveland and Terry Johnson, a former member of The Flamingos...
" (Cleveland, Terry "Buzzy" Johnson, Robinson) - "My Girl" (Robinson, Ronald WhiteRonald WhiteRonald "Ronnie" White was an African American soul singer and songwriter, notable as a founding member of The Miracles, and the only member to survive all of that group's line-up changes...
) - "The Hurt Is Over" (Robinson, Tarplin, Cleveland)
- "You Neglect Me" (Robinson, Tarplin)
- "Abraham, Martin & John" (Dick Holler)
Side two
- "For Once in My LifeFor Once in My Life"For Once in My Life" is a pop song written by Ron Miller and Orlando Murden for Motown Records' Jobete publishing company in 1967 . The composition was originally recorded by Jean DuShon, while other artists, such as Tony Bennett and The Temptations, recorded slow ballad versions of the song...
" (Ron MillerRon Miller (songwriter)Ronald Norman Miller was an American popular songwriter and record producer, who attained many Top 10 hits with ballads written for Motown artists in the 1960s and 1970s....
, Orlando Murden) - "Once I Got To Know You (Couldn't Help But Love You)" (Johnson, Robinson)
- "Wichita LinemanWichita Lineman"Wichita Lineman" is a popular song written by Jimmy Webb in 1968, first recorded by Glen Campbell and widely covered by other artists. Campbell's version, which appeared on his 1968 album of the same name, reached #3 on the U.S. pop chart, remaining in the Top 100 for 15 weeks...
" (Jimmy WebbJimmy WebbJimmy Webb is an American songwriter, composer, and singer. He wrote numerous platinum selling classics, including "Up, Up and Away", "By the Time I Get to Phoenix", "Wichita Lineman", "Galveston", "The Worst That Could Happen", "All I Know", and "MacArthur Park"...
) - "The ComposerThe Composer"The Composer" is a 1969 song released for Diana Ross & the Supremes by the Motown label.-Background:Written and produced by Smokey Robinson, the song is featured on their album Let the Sunshine In and peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart in the United States in May 1969...
" (Robinson) - "Here I Go AgainHere I Go Again (Miracles song)"Here I Go Again" was a 1969 hit single by The Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label subsidiary. It was taken from their top-25 Pop album Time Out for Smokey Robinson & The Miracles from that year, and was the flip side of their hit single, "Doggone Right"...
" (Robinson, Johnson, Cleveland, Warren Moore) - "I'll Take You Anyway That You Come" (Robinson)
Personnel- The Miracles
- Smokey RobinsonSmokey RobinsonWilliam "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...
: lead vocals - Ronnie White, Bobby RogersBobby RogersBobby Rogers is an American soul singer and songwriter, notable as a member of Motown Records' first signed act and first million selling group The Miracles from 1956 to present. He is also the grandfather of R&B singer Brandi Williams from R&B girl group Blaque-Life:Rogers is the son of the late...
, Warren "Pete" Moore (co-lead on "Doggone Right"), Claudette Robinson: background vocals - Marv Tarplin: guitarist
Other Credits
- Smokey RobinsonSmokey RobinsonWilliam "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...
: producer, album executive producer - Warren "Pete" Moore & Terry "Buzzy" Johnson: co-producer on "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" & "Here I Go Again"
- Funk Brothers: other instrumentation