| The Fabulous Miracles | ||||
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| Released | February 28, 1963 | |||
| Recorded | Hitsville USA, Detroit | |||
| Genre | Soul | |||
| Label | Tamla | |||
| Producer | Smokey Robinson Berry Gordy, Jr. | |||
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The Fabulous Miracles is a 1963 album by The Miracles featuring the million-selling Grammy Hall of Fame hit, "You've Really Got a Hold on Me", one of the group's most popular singles. It also features the chart hits "A Love She Can Count On" and "I've Been Good To You", which The Beatles' John Lennon has identified as his favorite Miracles song.[2] Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson was the principal writer on all tracks, while Miracles members Ronnie White and Bobby Rogers co-wrote with him on several of the album's songs. Although two of the album’s songs, "Won’t You Take Me Back" and "Your Love", were taken from their debut album Hi... We're the Miracles, all eight new songs were released as either singles or B-sides.
The album also features "I Can Take a Hint", which charted on the Billboard pop & R&B listings after being issued as the B-side of "A Love She Can Count On".
"Happy Landing", the flip side of "You Really Got a Hold On Me", while never charting nationally, did become a hit on several regional charts, and was performed by the group on their first live album, The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage. It was also the original A-side of “You've Really Got A Hold On Me”, but fell into obscurity as the nation's disc jockeys discovered and played the record's more successful flip side.[3] The Fabulous Miracles is only one of three Miracles albums to feature Miracles guitarist and original group member Marv Tarplin on its cover. The Miracles' bass singer Pete Moore is not featured on the album or the cover, as he was serving in the U.S. Armed Services and was stationed in Germany at the time this album was recorded (Moore is shown in a separate photograph on the back cover).[4] While Tarplin remained a member of the Miracles through 1973, he was not featured on any more of the group's classic album covers, except for 1961's Cookin' with The Miracles, 1962's I'll Try Something New, and this album. Tarplin does, however, appear on the cover of the group's 2009 Motown CD release, "The Miracles – Depend On Me: The Early Albums."
