Hi We’re The Miracles – THE MIRACLES***

Who’s Lovin’ You/(You Can) Depend On Me/Heart Like Mine/Shop Around/Won’t You Take Me Back/Cause I Love You/Your Love/After All/Way Over There/Money/Don’t Leave Me

Debut album from The Miracles, featuring the vocals and songwriting talents of Smokey Robinson. Hi We’re The Miracles is of historical importance as the first LP released by the Motown record company. Includes the Grammy winning US No. 2 hit single Shop Around.

“As the title might imply, this was the first album released by The Miracles, the group that would make a major star out of Smokey Robinson. It is also the very first album released on the Tamla label and thus the first album released by a Motown company. As chief songwriter for the group Smokey penned hit after hit, with Shop Around becoming an early signature song for the group. The album also features Motown founder Berry Gordy on production duties; the teaming of Gordy and Robinson was one that helped quickly establish Motown as a musical force to be reckoned with.”

“Their full debut album, Hi We're The Miracles is a great, harmony-driven set of doo-wop style soul. Smokey Robinson handles a lot of the songwriting and of course, singing in his trademark falsetto.”

“It certainly helps that, with the exception of a cover of the classic hit Money (to which Smokey and company give a heartfelt rendition), all of this material comes from the pen of Smokey Robinson himself, an incredible feat for an artist in 1961. The Miracles deliver on inspired soul, indicative of this era of music. Of note are the classic Who's Lovin' You and the group’s very first hit Shop Around that is so far beyond classic.”

“Every legend has a beginning. For The Miracles, this was it, the very first album by Motown's very first group, that launched a recording empire. It was the spark that caused the worldwide explosion known as the Motown sound. No matter what the label went on to do afterwards, or how many great artists it discovered, without The Miracles, it simply wouldn't have happened.”

“The only classic song on this one is Who's Lovin' You but its an excellent album nonetheless, especially since this is a Motown album with almost no filler in it.”