| What Love Has...Joined Together | ||||
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| Studio album by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles | ||||
| Released | April 28, 1970 | |||
| Recorded | 1970 | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Length | 27:00 | |||
| Label | Tamla TS-301 |
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| Producer | Smokey Robinson | |||
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What Love Has...Joined Together was a 1970 album by R&B group The Miracles (aka "Smokey Robinson & The Miracles") on Motown Records' Tamla label (TS301). A concept album consisting solely of six extended-length love songs, it charted at #97 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, and reached the Top 10 of Billboard's R&B album chart, peaking at # 9. It featured songs written by noted composers, such as Stevie Wonder, (My Cherie Amour), Berry Gordy, Frank Wilson, Brenda Holloway and her sister Patrice Holloway (You've Made Me So Very Happy), Burt Bacharach and Hal David (This Guy's In Love With You), Marvin Gaye (If This World Were Mine), The Beatles' John Lennon & Paul McCartney, (And I Love Her), and Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers (What Love Has Joined Together).
The Miracles performed a medley of this album's songs on a 1970 telecast of NBC's The Andy Williams Show.[1] What Love Has...Joined Together features Miracles members Smokey Robinson , Bobby Rogers , Pete Moore and Ronnie White on the front cover, and Claudette Robinson on the back cover. Miracles member Marv Tarplin played guitar on this album, but was not featured on its cover. Allmusic Guide called it "A stunning concept album that should have fared better".[2] Due to it's beauty and intimately romantic songs, this album has been and continues to be a popular staple at weddings.[3]
One of the rarest of The Miracles' albums/CDs, What Love Has....Joined Together was only released on CD once, in the early 1990s, and is now a valuable out-of-print and highly-sought-after collectors' item, commanding well over $100.00 in the collectors' market.
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