Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Miracles album)

Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (Miracles album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Type = Greatest hits
Artist = Smokey Robinson & the Miracles


Released = February 26 1968
Recorded = 1965-67
Genre = Soul
Length = 32:30
Label = Tamla
TS-280
Producer = Smokey Robinson
Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Frank Wilson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5pklu3u5anxk link]
Last album = "Make It Happen"
(1967)
This album = "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2"
(1968)
Next album = "Special Occasion"
(1968)

"Greatest Hits, Vol. 2" is the second greatest hits album for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, released in 1968 on Motown Records' Tamla label. It contained the most popular singles from the successful "Going To A Go-Go", "Away We A Go-Go" and "Make It Happen" albums of the 1965-67 period. It also featured the 1964 non-album single "Come On Do The Jerk", and two B-sides, "Choosey Beggar" and "Save Me". The hit single "I Second That Emotion" was new to album. This album reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, peaking at #7.

Track listing

ide one

# "Going to a Go-Go" (Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore, Robert Rogers, Marvin Tarplin)
# "The Tracks of My Tears" (Robinson, Moore, Tarplin)
# "I Second That Emotion" (Robinson, Al Cleveland)
# "Ooo Baby Baby" (Robinson, Moore)
# "My Girl Has Gone" (Robinson, Moore, Tarplin, Ronald White)
# "Come On Do the Jerk" (Robinson, Moore, White, ROgers)

ide two

# "Whole Lot of Shakin' in My Heart (Since I Met You)" (Frank Wilson
# "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" (Robinson, Tarplin)
# "(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
# "More Love" (Robinson)
# "Choosey Beggar" (Robinson, Moore)
# "Save Me" (Robinson, Rogers, Moore)

Personnel: The Miracles

* Smokey Robinson: lead vocals
* Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers, Warren "Pete" Moore, Claudette Robinson: background vocals
* Marv Tarplin: guitarist

Other Instruments

* The Funk Brothers: instrumentation

Producers

* Smokey Robinson, producer, Album executive producer
* Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier, producer
* Frank Wilson, producer


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