Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - The Tears Of A Clown album flac

Make It Happen is a 1967 album by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. It featured ballads such as the hit singles "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" and "More Love", as well as the up-tempo "The Tears of a Clown" co-written by Stevie Wonder and his producer Hank Cosby. Three years after the album's release, "The Tears of a Clown" was issued as a single, and charted at on both the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart. As a result, Make It Happen was reissued as The Tears of a Clown in 1970.

The Tears of a Clown" is a song written by Hank Cosby, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder and originally recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for the Tamla Records label subsidiary of Motown, first appearing on the 1967 album Make It Happen. It was re-released in the United Kingdom as a single in July 1970, and it became a hit on the UK Singles Chart for the week ending 12 September 1970

In the UK, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles had a tough time finding an audience - "I Second That Emotion" made in 1967, and a re-release of "The Tracks Of My Tears" hit in 1969, but that was all they had for UK chart entries to that point. By 1970, their British distributor was so frustrated that he asked Karen Spreadbury, who was head of a Motown fan club in England, to pick a single from the Make It Happen album. She chose "The Tears of a Clown" - the last song on the album

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles Durée : 03:00. Auteur : Henry Cosby, Stevie Wonder, William Robinson, Jr. Compositeur : Henry Cosby, Stevie Wonder, William Robinson, Jr. Paroles. Oh yeah yeah yeah Now if there's a smile on my face It's only there trying to fool the public But when it comes down to fooling you Now honey that's quite a different subject But don't let my glad expression Give you the wrong impression Really I'm sad, oh I'm sadder than sad You're gone. lonely room I cry The tears of a clown When there's no one around, oh yeah, baby Now if there's a smile on my face Don't let my glad expression Give you the wrong impression Don't let this smile I wear Make you think that I don't care 'Cause really I'm sad. William jr. Robinson, stevie wonder, henry cosby.

Smokey Robinson And The Miracles – The Tears Of A Clown. HIT December 12, 1970. Smokey Robinson and his Miracles should’ve hit a full decade before they did. 1960’s Shop Around, an absolutely monstrous banger, was a million-seller, and it was the first major hit for Berry Gordy’s Motown company, which was only a year old at that point. Robinson didn’t stay retired for too long; he released his first solo album a year after he left the group. Robinson went on to have a great solo career, changing his sound with the times, pioneering the quiet storm subgenre, and landing a bunch of other hits. But he never got back to In a weird twist, the other Miracles did eventually score another without Smokey Robinson: the 1975 disco song Love Machine. But that’s a story for another day. GRADE: 9/10.

The title track revisited the arena of heartache and confessional soul that few have ever exploited more skillfully and memorably than Smokey Robinson. This album was actually an example of corporate greed at work; it was only grafting a new title onto an old album. Motown merely reissued Make It Happen with a fresh title to fill the gap as internal problems were preventing the completion of a new Miracles record