Special Occasion (Miracles album)

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Special Occasion
Special Occasion cover
Studio album by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Released August 1968
Recorded 1968
Genre Soul
Length 32:23
Label Tamla
TS-290
Producer Smokey Robinson
Norman Whitfield
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". Also included are versions of the Motown hits "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Everybody Needs Love" (both made popular by Gladys Knight & The Pips) and The Beatles' "Yesterday".

The Miracles were actually the first group to record "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", before the later hits versions by Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips were done, although the master used on this album is a re-recorded version prepared following the release of the Pips' version.

Contents

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[edit] Side one

  1. "Yester Love" (Smokey Robinson, Al Cleveland)
  2. "If You Can Want" (Robinson)
  3. "Special Occasion" (Robinson, Cleveland)
  4. "Everybody Needs Love" (Norman Whitfield, Edward Holland, Jr.)
  5. "Just Losing You" (Robinson)
  6. "Give Her Up" (Robinson)

[edit] Side two

  1. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Whitfield, Barrett Strong)
  2. "Yesterday" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney)
  3. "Your Mother's Only Daughter" (Robinson, Cleveland)
  4. "Much Better Off" (Smokey Robinson, Warren Moore)
  5. "You Only Build Me Up To Tear Me Down" (Robinson)

[edit] Personnel