The heyday of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles at Motown produced any variety of artistic triumphs and industrial achievements. However there was one feat that they solely managed twice throughout their time collectively, and that was to prime the R&B album chart. It occurred in January 1966 with the Going To A Go-Go set, then there was a wait of almost three years for a repeat. That candy second matched the title of the album, Particular Event.
The Miracles had three consecutive High 3 albums within the meantime, with Away We A Go-Go, Make It Occur and a Best Hits, Vol. 2 set. 1968 had introduced the group three extra High 10 R&B hits, “If You Can Want,” “Yester Love” and “Special Occasion,” to convey their whole to an superior 16 in some eight years.
So the brand new album was broadly anticipated, particularly because it included all three of these hit singles. It additionally contained their wonderful model of “I Heard It Through The Grapevine,” which had been a pop and R&B smash a 12 months earlier for Gladys Knight & the Pips (and was now doing the identical for Marvin Gaye) however had been first recorded by the Miracles. Amid a number of different Smokey Robinson originals and co-writes, and Norman Whitfield and Barrett Robust’s “Everybody Needs Love,” there was additionally an interpretation of Lennon & McCartney’s “Yesterday.”
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Particular Event did certainly present an important end to the 12 months, debuting on the R&B chart on the finish of September and finishing its climb to No.1 on the chart of December 7, 1968, the place it stayed for 2 weeks. The Billboard evaluate that ran on the album’s launch was spot on when it mentioned “both the pop and R&B markets will make room for Smokey.”
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