Special Occasion (Miracles album)

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Special Occasion
Special Occasion cover
Studio album by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Released August 1968
Genre Soul
Label Tamla
TS-290
Professional reviews
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles chronology
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
(1968)
Special Occasion
(1968)
Live
(1969)


Special Occasion is an album by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles released in 1968. It contains three Top 40 hits: "If You Can Want", "Yester Love", and "Special Occasion". The upbeat version of the Motown classic "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" is one of the album's interesting moments. Smokey also delivers a passionate dark cover of the Beatles' "Yesterday".

[edit] Track listing

  1. Yester Love
  2. If You Can Want
  3. Special Occasion
  4. Everybody Needs Love
  5. Just Losing You
  6. Give Her Up
  7. I Heard It Through The Grapevine
  8. Yesterday
  9. Your Mother's Only Daughter
  10. Much Better Off
  11. You Only Build Me Up To Tear Me Down