The Fabulous Miracles

Studio album by The Miracles

Released

February 28, 1963

Genre

Soul

Label

Tamla (Motown)
TM 238

Producer

Smokey Robinson
Berry Gordy, Jr.

The Miracles chronology

Christmas with The Miracles
(1963)

The Fabulous Miracles
(1963)

The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage
(1963)

Singles from The Fabulous Miracles

"Happy Landing" / "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"
Released: November 9, 1962
"A Love She Can Count On"
Released: March 11, 1963

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

The Fabulous Miracles is a 1963 album by The Miracles featuring the million-selling Grammy Hall of Fame hit, "You've Really Got a Hold on Me", one of the group's most popular singles. It also features the chart hits "A Love She Can Count On" and "I've Been Good To You", which The Beatles' John Lennon has identified as his favorite Miracles song.^[2] Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson was the principal writer on all tracks, while Miracles members Ronnie White and Bobby Rogers co-wrote with him on several of the album's songs.

The album also features "I Can Take a Hint", which charted on the Billboard pop & R&B listings after being issued as the B-side of "A Love She Can Count On".
"Happy Landing", the flip side of "You Really Got a Hold On Me" which, while never charting nationally, did become a hit on several regional charts, and was performed by the group on their first live album, The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage. It was also the original "A" side of You've Really Got A Hold On Me, but fell into undeserved obscurity as the nation's Dee Jays discovered and played the record's more successful flip side, relegating Happy Landing to "B" side status.^[3]
The Fabulous Miracles is only one of three Miracles albums to feature Miracles guitarist and original group member Marv Tarplin on its cover. The Miracles' bass singer Pete Moore is not featured on the album or the cover, as he was serving in the U.S. Armed Services and was stationed in Germany at the time this album was recorded (Moore is shown in a separate photograph on the back cover).^[4] While Tarplin remained a member of the Miracles through 1973, he was not featured any more of the group's classic album covers, except for 1961's Cookin' with The Miracles, 1962's I'll Try Something New, and this album. Tarplin does, however, appear on the cover of the group's 2009 Motown CD release,"The Miracles – Depend On Me: The Early Albums."

Track listing

Side one

"You've Really Got a Hold on Me" (Smokey Robinson) – 2:57
"I've Been Good To You" (Robinson) – 2:42
"Such is Love, Such is Life" (Robinson) – 2:42
"I Can Take a Hint" (Robinson, Janie Bradford, Stanley Ossman, Robert Rogers) – 2:45
"Won't You Take Me Back" (Robinson) – 2:39 (previously appeared on Hi... We're The Miracles)

Side two

"A Love She Can Count On" (Robinson) – 2:52 (different version than the single)
"Whatever Makes You Happy" (Robinson, Ronald White) – 2:33
"Heartbreak Road" (Robinson, White) – 2:46
"Happy Landing" (Robinson, White) – 2:46
"Your Love" (Robinson) – 2:50 (previously appeared on Hi... We're The Miracles)

The Fabulous Miracles and, in particular, the album version of "A Love She Can Count On," were released on CD for the first time as part of the 2009 Motown limited edition CD release "The Miracles: Depend On Me."^[5]^[6]

Personnel: The Miracles

1. Smokey Robinson: lead vocals, producer, executive producer.
2. Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers (co-lead on "You Really Got a Hold on Me"), Warren "Pete" Moore, Claudette Robinson: background vocals
3. Marv Tarplin: guitarist

Other instruments

The Funk Brothers

References

↑ Allmusic review
↑ Book:"If You Like The Beatles" by Bruce Pollack. ISBN 9781617130700 http://books.google.com/books?id=0wDgMeWmw74C&pg=PT57&lpg=PT57&dq=I%27ve+Been+Good+To+You+The+Beatles%27+John+Lennon++favorite+Miracles+song&source=bl&ots=y6WvPot6fe&sig=uZbRvvwRvxfTCDkD0poaZ5s9Fi4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=kx9bUaumJYrEiwLgm4HICw&sqi=2&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBg
↑ Nixon, The. "241. The Miracles: "Happy Landing" « Motown Junkies". Motownjunkies.wordpress.com. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
↑ http://ring.cdandlp.com/jetrecords/photo_grande/114681900-2.jpg
↑ "Miracles, Motown, And Memories". soul sides. 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2012-01-10.
↑ "HIPO". Hip-oselect.com. Retrieved 2012-01-10.

External links

The Miracles

Smokey Robinson Ronnie White Pete Moore Bobby Rogers Claudette Robinson Marv Tarplin Billy Griffin Donald Griffin Carl Cotton Mark Scott Dave Finley Sidney Justin Alphonse Franklin Tee Turner Pre-Miracles: Emerson "Sonny" Rogers James Grice Clarence Dawson

Production	Berry Gordy Smokey Robinson Pete Moore

Studio albums	Hi... We're The Miracles (1961) Cookin' with The Miracles (1961) I'll Try Something New (1962) The Fabulous Miracles (1963) The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey (1963) I Like It Like That (1964) Going to a Go-Go (1965) Away We a Go-Go (1966) Make It Happen (The Tears of a Clown) (1967) Special Occasion (1968) Time Out For Smokey Robinson & the Miracles (1969) Four in Blue (1969) What Love Has Joined Together (1970) A Pocket Full Of Miracles (1970) One Dozen Roses (1971) Flying High Together (1972) Renaissance (1973) Do It Baby (1974) City of Angels (1975)

Live albums	The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage (1963) Smokey Robinson & The Miracles LIVE! (1969) Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: 1957-1972 (1972)

Other albums	Christmas with The Miracles (1963)

Compilations	Greatest Hits: From the Beginning (1965) Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1968) Anthology (1974) Anthology '86 (1986) Anthology: The Best of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (1995) The Ultimate Collection (1998) Ooo Baby Baby: The Anthology (2002) Depend On Me: The Early Albums (2009)

Singles (US/UK Top Twenty singles)	"Shop Around" "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"/"Happy Landing" "Mickey's Monkey" "Ooo Baby Baby" "The Tracks of My Tears" "My Girl Has Gone" "Going to a Go-Go" "(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need" "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" "I Second That Emotion" "If You Can Want" "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" "The Tears of a Clown" "I Don't Blame You At All" "Do It Baby" "Love Machine"

Videography	The Definitive Performances (1963–1987) (2006)

Discography	Albums Songs

Related articles	Motown Records List of cover versions of The Miracles songs

Book:The Miracles

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