Going To A Go-Go – SMOKEY ROBINSON & THE MIRACLES****

The Tracks Of My Tears/Going To A Go-Go/Ooo Baby Baby/My Girl Has Gone/In Case You Need Love/ Choosey Beggar/Since You Won My Heart/From Head To Toe/All That’s Good/My Baby Changes Like The Weather/Let Me Have Some/A Fork In The Road

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles achieved their only US top twenty album chart appearance of new material with Going To A Go-Go. Includes the US top twenty singles Ooo Baby Baby, My Girl Has Gone, Going To A Go-Go and Tracks Of My Tears, the last of which reached No. 9 in the UK. With one exception all the songs were written by Smokey Robinson. (US:8)

"Tracks Of My Tears is a top 100 best songs ever candidate. Seriously now, if you've never heard it go look it up this instant. It is a wonderfully constructed song. Smokey's emotionally charged tenor works perfectly in songs like this. But it does not work so well on more upbeat party oriented songs like the title cut. Someone with more force and less emotion should handle these. Several other strong songs here too, but nothing on the level of Tracks."

"Smokey Robinson's voice is nothing short of incredible. So smooth, so expressive, so beautiful. The songs themselves are all amazing pop too."

"The first three singles are stone-cold classics but the fourth single My Girl Has Gone and the rest of the tracks are little more than formulaic and generic filler, pleasant but forgettable. At this point Motown were clearly a singles label."

"You're never going to be able to capture all of the talent and excitement of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles on a single album, but if you're the type that would rather experience an LP release rather than a collection of singles and songs, Going To A Go-Go is a great choice."

"Going To A Go-Go is in my opinion, the best album by this group. It was a mini-greatest hits in itself as it contained every one of their 1965 singles and their flip sides."

"Going To A-Go-Go, is one of the most brilliant albums of Smokey's career. The Tracks Of My Tears must surely rate among the best singles ever written, and Ooo Baby Baby is perhaps the most intensely emotional track ever written."