Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (The Miracles album)

Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 is the second greatest hits album for The Miracles (a.k.a. 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 1965–1967 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, and peaked at #2 on Billboard's R&B album chart.^[1] Ten of the albums' 12 songs were written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, Marv Tarplin, Bobby Rogers, and Ronnie White.

Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Greatest hits album by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Released	January 26, 1968
Recorded	1965–1967
Genre	Soul
Length	32:30
Label	Tamla
Producer	Smokey Robinson Brian Holland Lamont Dozier Frank Wilson
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles chronology
Make It Happen (1967) Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1968) Special Occasion (1968)
Singles from Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
"Come On Do the Jerk" Released: November 20, 1964 "I Second That Emotion" Released: October 12, 1967

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Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 was voted the 166th best album of all time in Paul Gambaccini's 1978 poll of 50 prominent American and English rock critics.^[2] The album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981).^[3]

Track listing

Side one

1. "Going to a Go-Go" (Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore, Robert Rogers, Marv Tarplin) 2:45
2. "The Tracks of My Tears" (Robinson, Moore, Tarplin) 2:54
3. "I Second That Emotion" (Robinson, Al Cleveland) 2:44
4. "Ooo Baby Baby" (Robinson, Moore) 2:45
5. "My Girl Has Gone" (Robinson, Moore, Tarplin, Ronald White) 2:50
6. "Come On Do The Jerk" (Robinson, Moore, White, Rogers) 2:45

Side two

1. "Whole Lot Of Shakin' In My Heart (Since I Met You)" (Frank Wilson) 2:41
2. "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" (Robinson, Tarplin) 2:58
3. "(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) 2:30
4. "More Love" (Robinson) 2:44
5. "Choosey Beggar" (Robinson, Moore) 2:32
6. "Save Me" (Robinson, Rogers, Moore) 2:22

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

References

1. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: The 35th Anniversary Collection-Miracles Billboard Album chart stats, Pg 63
2. Gambaccini, Paul (1978). Rock Critic's Choice: The Top 200 Albums. Omnibus. pp. 83–4. ISBN 0860014940.
3. Christgau, Robert (1981). "A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0899190251. Retrieved March 16, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.