The Miracles
‘The Season For Miracles’: Yuletide With Smokey Robinson And Co
By 1970, it was time for a second seasonal album offering from Smokey and the group.
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Features5 months agoDon’t Talk Back: The Last Word In Answer Records
You’ll find answer records in all walks of music. Some are aggressive, some motivated by a sense of injustice, and others show contempt through wit.
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Features5 months ago
The 56 Best Motown Songs: Essentials To Get You Dancing In The Street
The best Motown songs are timeless soul classics that capture everything it means to be in love, to suffer heartbreak – and to want to dance with abandon.
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Features6 months ago
Best Motown Samples: 20 Essential Tracks For Crate-Diggers
Not often a label thought of in hip-hop terms, the best Motown samples prove that Berry Gordy’s empire had more than enough beats for the crate-diggers.
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Features7 months ago
Best Motown Beatles Covers: When Motown Met The Beatles
Motown Records was a huge inspiration for The Beatles in their early days, but the influence ran both ways, as the best Motown Beatles covers reveal.
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In-Depth7 months ago
The Great American Soulbook: An Awe-Inspiring Collection Of Songs
Motown’s great songwriters were the foundations of the Great American Soulbook, an imaginary, but nonetheless awe-inspiring collection of songs written in the name of soul. But it did not come easy.
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Features8 months ago
70s Motown: How “The Sound Of Young America” Came Of Age
Having helped birth soul music in the 60s, Motown helped it mature in the 70s, creating classic albums and asking some of the biggest questions of the era.
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Features8 months ago‘A Quiet Storm’: How Smokey Robinson Invented A New Genre Of Soul
Absorbing and life-affirming, Smokey Robinson’s ‘A Quiet Storm’ is one of the landmark soul albums of its era, and its innovations continue to resonate.
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Features9 months ago
‘I Want You’: Marvin Gaye’s Carnal Classic
The follow-up to ‘Let’s Get It On’, Marvin Gaye’s ‘I Want You’ was a deeply personal album that laid the blueprint for 90s and 00s R&B and neo-soul.
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Features9 months ago
‘Nowhere To Run’: Martha & The Vandellas Race Towards The Top
The propulsive, tension-filled number came flying off the pens of Holland, Dozier and Holland and into the Motown studio.
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Features9 months ago
Smokey Robinson: Celebrating Motown’s Miracle Man
Whether as a songwriter for himself, The Miracles, or for others, Smokey Robinson perfected the art of expression, penning countless classics for Motown.
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Features9 months ago
‘Got A Job’: Smokey Robinson Gets An 18th Birthday Present
One of the great careers in soul music was launched on Smokey's 18th birthday with an answer record.
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Features10 months ago
‘Shop Around’: The Miracles Pick Up Motown’s First Million-Seller
‘Shop Around’ is an absolutely vital part of the early development of Motown, and on February 12, 1961 it became their first million-seller.
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Features10 months ago
Best Motown Love Songs: 20 Essential Songs For Soulmates
If you’re suffering from heartbreak, trying to get next to someone, or dreaming about the unattainable, the best Motown love songs will suit your mood.
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Features10 months ago
Barrett Strong: The Man Who Made Motown ‘Money’ And Much More
The young singer who recorded 'Money (That's What I Want)' went on, with Norman Whitfield, to co-write many of the most indelible songs in Motown history.
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Features10 months ago
Ace Of Bass: Funk Brother And Motown Bedrock James Jamerson
Alongside his fellow Funk Brothers, Jamerson helped weave the very fabric of Tamla Motown’s imposing and infectious sound.
