Make It Happen/Special Occasion [Import]

Product Description
Digitally remastered reissue combines two domestically out-of-print albums together on one CD, 'Make It Happen' (1967) & 'Special Occasion' (1968). Packaged in a full color outer slipcase with original sleeve artwork.

Make It Happen/Special Occasion,Smokey Robinson & the Miracles,Universal Int'l,Motown,Pop,Pop-Soul,Pop/Rock,R&B,R&B/Soul,Soul,Soul/R & B

Average customer rating:

Awesome!
Two brilliant albums in one.

Make It Happen/Special Occasion
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Manufacturer: Umvd Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00005CEKP
Release Date: 2001-05-14

Tracks:

The Soulful Shack
The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage
My Love For You
I'm On The Outside (Looking In)
Don't Think It's Me
My Love Is Your Love (Forever)
More Love
After You Put Back The Pieces (I'll Still Have A Broken Heart)
It's A Good Feeling
You Must Be Love
Dancing's Alright
The Tears Of A Clown
Yester Love
If You Can Want
Special Occasion
Everybody Needs Love
Just Losing You
Give Her Up
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Yesterday
Your Mother's Only Daughter
Much Better Off
You Only Build Me Up To Tear Me Down

Album Description

Digitally remastered reissue combines two domestically out-of-print albums together on one CD, 'Make It Happen' (1967) & 'Special Occasion' (1968). Packaged in a full color outer slipcase with original sleeve artwork.

Album Details

One of the Motown label's sweetest-sounding quintet's 1967 & 1968 full length (now out of print) releases on one disc. Includes their biggest hit 'Tears of a Clown', plus 'More Love', 'If You Can Want', 'Yester Love' & much more.

Customer Reviews:

Awesome!.......2001-11-26

catching The Genius Writing of Smokey Robinson in His Prime is a must.you get all the Motown Trimmings&then you combine that with Smokey's Voice&Lyrics&it takes it to a whole different level.two for one&something that stays on your Mind.just for a song like "Tears Of A Clown" you will be Moved.the thing about Smokey's Stuff is when it hit it had no time frame.it moved you then as now.Smokey&The Miracles are Underrated to Me for there Harmony.you gotta hear to the Feeling&Vibe set fourth.enjoy.

Two brilliant albums in one........2001-06-07

I can't say how happy I am that this and the other two two-album CDs have finally been released- they weren't available at all previously. Of all of the three CDs, this middle one is in my opinion the strongest musically and lyrically, with trademark Smokey wordplay and some of the most brilliant titles ever ("After you put back the pieces (I'll still have a broken heart)"). It's also more emotionally complex than ever before, and with Smokey, this is the key thing.

Make It Happen is, in my opinion, Smokey's masterpiece album. Extremely rarely for this time period, it only has one or two fillout songs, and the last six are exceptionally an unbroken series of masterpieces, from the greatest positive love song in history, More Love (famously the only "true" song Smokey ever wrote), to Smokey's most played classic, Tears of a Clown. My personal favourite on this album (with the exception of the aforementioned) is You Must Be Love- One of Smokey's finest expressions ever.

Special Occasion, while not as good, definately ranks in the top five Smokey albums, with a number of classic cuts like the title track, and the brilliant You Only Build Me Up To Tear Me Down.

Overall, If you're going to buy one Smokey two-album set, buy this one.

Make It Happen/Special Occasion
Average customer rating:
Make It Happen/Special Occasion

Manufacturer: Msi Music Corp
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000DEOWO
Release Date: 2002-08-28