Time Out for Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
| Time Out for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles | ||||
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| Studio album by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles | ||||
| Released | July 10, 1969 | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Length | 36:38 | |||
| Label | Tamla TS 295 |
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| Producer | Smokey Robinson | |||
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Time Out for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles is a 1969 album by Motown group The Miracles. It reached #25 on the Billboard Pop Album chart, and contains four pop top 40 singles: "Doggone Right", "Abraham, Martin & John", "Here I Go Again" and the top ten 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 the album's tracks, along with Motown staff songwriters Al Cleveland, Ron Miller and Terry Johnson. Miracle Pete Moore also co-produced two 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.
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Track listing
All songs produced by Smokey Robinson, except where noted.
Side one
- "Doggone Right" (Robinson, Marvin Tarplin, Al Cleveland)
- "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" (Cleveland, Terry "Buzzy" Johnson, Robinson)
- "My Girl" (Robinson, Ronald White)
- "The Hurt Is Over" (Robinson, Tarplin, Cleveland)
- "You Neglect Me" (Robinson, Tarplin)
- "Abraham, Martin & John" (Dick Holler)
Side two
- "For Once in My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden)
- "Once I Got To Know You (Couldn't Help But Love You)" (Johnson, Robinson)
- "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb)
- "The Composer" (Robinson)
- "Here I Go Again" (Robinson, Johnson, Cleveland, Warren Moore)
- "I'll Take You Anyway That You Come" (Robinson)
Personnel (The Miracles)
- Smokey Robinson: lead vocals
- Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers, Warren "Pete" Moore (co-lead on "Doggone Right"), Claudette Robinson: backing vocals
- Marv Tarplin: guitar
Other credits
- Smokey Robinson: producer, album executive producer
- Warren "Pete" Moore and Terry "Buzzy" Johnson: co-producer on "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" and "Here I Go Again"
- Funk Brothers: other instrumentations
