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  • this song plays at my work and I just cannot help but sing along.... it is so worth the crazy looks i get XD

  • this is a song that we are doing for chours our chours teacher said this was her favorite song

  • This is our opening song for show choir<3

  • were doing this in choir!!! :D

  • I mama told me you'd better shop around.

  • I am 13 and love this song :)

  • Sandra Dee Lawson.

  • i love this song. music can never be as good as it was back in the day

  • This is a classic!!!! The words and the music

  • too bad more people don't take this advice

    Love the song though

  • Smokey is one of the finest

  • That was my favorite song in high school!

  • My mother and Aunt played a lot of Motown music when i was younger. It's sad that the music of my generation doesnt know what quality is. Smokey is from a time when artist had to prove themselves and really work for their fame. Now theyre just products that come out with songs that are only "hits" for 3 months.

  • dame its a shame im a teen loving dis music so smooth nd chilll unlike da waka flacka shit old music all day

  • @jetswest what????

  • Oh boy I love this song.

  • @austinthebookworm5 I love it too, no one can make music like they could.

  • First record I ever purchased. Miracles were a great crossover group.

  • This is simply a wonderful record. Vocally, a great combination of technique and expression. And that arrangement!

    I wish more modern musicians would study this record. It really is special.

  • One girl was a dime a dozen.

  • he was like midas. everything he touched turnd to gold. -djQ

  • Who's the Justin Bieber fan who did NOT like this video???

  • @Erlo3well.....it’s....technic­ally....NOT...a video!!!

  • @Rahxn It doesn't matter don't defend justin beiber and your life will be full of happiness

  • In the 70's some act (Captain & Tenille?) did a cover version that was nowhere near as good as the original.

  • This is what i call music

  • this is my favorite song!!!!!1!!!!!!!!!1!!!1!!

  • Smokey, The Inkspots, The Miracles, great songs and great sounds. Where are they now?

  • 0 dislikes ,283 likes , damn straight .

  • woow 1960 things werent so great for african americans were they but this music doesnt end we fouight till we won

  • great song

  • I wish to thank you so much in your help in this matte busizz4me.info

  • Great song. Just listening to it, I picture myself doing the slop at an 8th grade Jr High School dance. Even was able to remember what I was wearing while listening. Boy music sure can stir up the memories.

    Thanks for posting. I'm gonna play it again!

  • @Annettesmusic Someone else who remembers the slop! :-D This is like where were you when. I can still remember the first time I heard this song. Motown made those Jr. High school dances memorable.

  • This makes me love Motown so much

  • Wow! People loved this song so much, that their mouse slipped while they were shaking of pure awe, and just as they were about to click dislike, it slipped again! Wow, this is what I call music.

  • First time eeveerr ive heard this and its bloody amazing... "My momma told me you better shop around" ;P

  • A Top 5 hit for The Miracles in the winter of 1961. It was the start of a string of hits for a record company called Motown. And as Paul Harvey always said, "You know the rest of the story."

  • Mom introduced me to Motown...I kiss her once more everyday for that alone.

  • The best!! A good song, a wonderful man!!  Phyllis..

  • thanks grandma and grandpa for never stop playing those records of yours!!!

  • that's right boys .... shop around

  • This that THROWBACK, Man I love it.

  • Dang. I knew I forgot something. 

  • LOVE this song. For some reason it reminds me of 'Jimmy Reaedon'

  • This great song from 1960 reached #2 for one week. (U.S., Billboard) The Miracles had 29 Top 40 hits, but their only song I like better than this one is "More Love" from 1967.

  • Motown is the best music ever.

  • motown - really music!

    you better shop around!

  • Fabulous song, lyrics, performances--also great great advice not just for young men but young women, too. If you have kids, sing them this song--no play it! But let your little girls it goes for them just as much. Way to go, Smokey!

  • Best....vocal...melodies...eve­r.

  • I don't think anyone at Motown ever came close to Smokey and the Miracles, may be, Jerry Butler, the Ice Man, I loved his version of Let it be Me with Betty Everett, what a song. I may be wrong, but I can tell you having been married and now a widower, it pays to "shop around" especially in marriage. I was so blessed to be mnarried to my late wife for 36 great years, RIP Baby, I miss you so much. This is music we all grew up with, what an era!

  • what about stevie wonder, jackson 5, the isley brothers?

  • Motown never got any better than this.

  • tiger woods should've known this song......

  • hahahaha... so true

  • i had to dance to this in my third grade show xD

    the theme was "mo-town" :D hahaha

  • True Classic!

  • tell this to Tiger 6 years ago. Dumass!!!

  • amazing :)

  • Fabulous 60's tank you!

  • Excellent ..thank you...

  • I remember doing the mashed potatoes to this song at Berendo Jr. High School, Los Angels - Friday night dances. Oh what great memories - Paragons Class of 1964.

  • The mash potatoes was sweeping the country during the time of this cut. Thanksgiving 1960, I was in Chicago and they were jamming the mash potatoes. On visiting Miami to see my uncle, they were jamming the mash patatoes there. This dance craze stayed around for a few years.

  • This song was Motown's first number one hit on the R&B singles chart

    this music will never be outdated, i say we ditch the manufactured shit on the radio today and go back to the 60's!

    x x x

  • its ok, we wont hate you cuz you're gay...at least i'll try but can't make any promises.

  • im not gay dumbass its was an exagartion

  • you dare to compare this with pussy!?

    But still, im 13 to and i love this kinda music!!

  • rofllll this is hilarious

  • @XxFeebeeBeebeexX i am alreayd there baby. i am 26 and found my self not being able to relate to these jive turkeys

  • @XxFeebeeBeebeexX yeh right!!! i agree!!  id like to show todays singers an instrument, see if they wat this strange contraption is???

  • @XxFeebeeBeebeexX You're naive if you think this kinda music wasn't manufactured as well lol...

  • @XxFeebeeBeebeexX lol I agree with you that this music was great, but to think Motown wasn't manufactured music is just wrong. The Detroit based music company actually modeled the making of music after the car industry, and tried to pump out as many hits as they could.. and they did! =)

  • the MIRACLES ARE THE ONE GROUP that launched the ENTIRE MOTOWN PHENOMONON!!! It wasn't THE SUPREMES, THE TEMPTATIONS, or THE FOUR TOPS...They didn't come along until YEARS LATER. It was the MIRACLES. On March 20th 2009, Berry Gordy, speaking at the MIRACLES' Hollywood Walk Of Fame Induction Ceremony..said "Without THE MIRACLES, MOTOWN WOULD NOT BE THE MOTOWN IT IS TODAY". He ought to know!!!

  • Yup.

  • ....over 50 chart hits, FOUR SONGS in the GRAMMY HALL OF FAME, and INDUCTIONS into THE VOCAL GROUP HALL OF FAME, THE DOO-WOP HALL OF FAME, and THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME, THE MIRACLES deserve RRHOF induction more than MOST that have gotten it . Many other Motown artists did not write their own material. THE MIRACLES DID. (ALL of them...NOT JUST SMOKEY) .Plus, they wrote for numerous other acts as well...especially THE TEMPTATIONS. Over 50 of their songs have been covered by other artists !!

  • There is a movement going on RIGHT NOW  to get THE MIRACLES inducted into the RRHOF. As MOTOWN'S FIRST GROUP, and MOTOWN'S FIRST MILLION-SELLING ACT,

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  • i love it!

  • this music will never get "Old"

    it's like "gold" in our musical world! MOTOWN Is Amazing! Luv U Miracles!!!

  • Real voice this great is Smokey

  • Why do all of you only credit SMOKEY ? This is a MIRACLES record...NOT a "SMOKEY SOLO" record . All of THE MIRACLES recorded it , so ALL of THE MIRACLES deserve credit. This crediting of only "Smokey" is the VERY reason that the RRHOF only inducted HIM, and left the other MIRACLES out !!! It's HIGH TIME that ALL of the MIRACLES recieved due credit...for their songs and accomplishments...THE MIRACLES are a GROUP... not just "Smokey and-his-background-singers."

  • I totally agree with you! Yes Smokey was talented, but the miricals are what made him great. His song `Baby, Baby` wouldn`t have come out had smokey not had the miricals to sing the Òh, baby, baby``.

  • Thats what im saying! That is the saddest thing I have heard...... I didnt know that only smokey was in the RRHOF I thought that the miracles were in there to....... I feel like doing something about it

  • I agree. each of them all have added something to this amzing group. Dancing, singing, anythign really. :) I love all of their wonderful musical talents!!!!!

  • @TheNinjasRKool That's right !! And songwriting too !! Smokey didn't write all of those hits by himself. ALL of THE MIRACLES were writing the songs....NOT JUST SMOKEY.One look at the records will prove THAT. Despite the fact that Smokey tends to get most of the credit, ALL of the Miracles were writing the songs. Just look at albums recorded by THE MIRACLES, TEMPTATIONS, MARY WELLS , or MARVIN GAYE made during the sixties - you'll see ROBINSON,ROGERS,MOORE,WHITE,an­d TARPLIN . (The Miracles)

  • Absolutely right. This has always been a beef with me. The rest of the group supply superb vocals on this excellent recording.

  • love smokey , i can see myself dancing in the teen club , back in the day .

  • ha ha ha , i;m laughing cause i did the same thing here in south jersey. back in the 60's . Boy did I have fun back then.

  • Oh, Smokey had it goin' on! Great Motown.

  • Good black american music where are you nowadays ?

    Fuck Usher , all the ganster rappers , etc...

    Robinson is the shit!!!!

  • @weisszil What about good music period? Black, white, country, punk, rock, soul, pop, it's all shit. (there is good stuff out there still, but most popular music is crap these days.)

  • dosen't the girl in the pic look like lisa from saved by the bell? :)

  • Totally awesome i Love This!!!!!!!!! :DDDDDDDD

  • motowns first rnb numba1 hit....

  • i know music..apperently..you dont., this song is great..but i love it when David sings it..dont question my opinion.its what i wanna say

  • Of course you do. You don't know shit about music!!!!!!!!!!!

  • lololol

  • @MrsArchuletaXO96 It just boggles my mind when I see people compare American Idol wanna-bes to legendary groups like THE MIRACLES ...professional artists who have had years of hits and a proven track record ....Just because contestants on a reality show cover their tunes...doesn't make them as good.....not nearly !! I guarantee you that years from now, 98% percent of the contestants who've appeared on that show WONT EVEN BE REMEMBERED by the public at large  !! So much for COPYCATS .

  • @williamg2552 This is very good, don't get me wrong. But I just like David's voice better with this song. Of course I like this version, it's the original. And David is most certainly not a copy cat? You don't write your own music for Idol, you sing other peoples'.

  • Just immaging all the things we did when this was new and we were call those Kid, and statement what this world coming to if we our future depended on them we are doomed :)

  • Classic!

  • I wish more songs today were like this...

  • Songs Bad Ass!

  • I"ve always loved this song, but can't imagine why the Beatles never recorded it in their early days, when they were still doing covers. I think it would have fit them like a glove, with Paul McCartney singing lead.

    They did do Robinson's "You've Really Got A Hold On Me". They should have done any and all Smokey Robinson songs!

  • Well what do you know. I see now in the Related Videos section that Helen Shapiro was performing this song in the early 1960s, so that's probably why.

  • Maybe the Beatles didn't cover this was out of respect. As a massive Beatles fan I know doubt they would have done a superb version but lets face it if we are being honest it would not have been anywhere near as good a Smokey's.

    All the best to all youtubers

  • Much as I love just about all the Liverpool Beat/UK Invasion (from my US perspective!) -- I don't think a single one of their cover versions of black R&B originals was as good. But I too am a huge fan so don't take this the wrong way.

  • That is what I said, and no offence taken, I agree more or less. This version of Shop Around just cannot be matched in my opinion. I have to say though that I loved the Beatles cover of Mr Postman, probably the best cover that they did and I prefer it to the Marvelettes version.

  • point well taken but the soulful sax couldn't be replicated!

  • Yes, I went... 'Shopen Around'... at Wal-Mart! And there were no girls there... "A dime a Dozen!"

    But there were some 'GOLD DIGGERS'... looking at the Jewerly!

    Thanks, RR

  • Classic!

  • Now this is what you call a 'GREAT RECORD'!!!!!

  • was claudette smokey's wife back then?

  • Yes, she was. This version of Shop Around was released in 1960. Smokey and Claudette married in 1959.

  • @alwahadi ...Yep, she was .

  • @alwahadi Yes. They were married for 27 years and have 2 children, Berry and Tamla.

  • He's the greatest singer/songwriter of our time. Hands down!!

  • Janeshe 2 says: this IS MY SONG!!!!!!!!

  • THE FIRST MILLION-SELLING RECORD for the MOTOWN RECORD CORPORATION. sung by MOTOWN'S FIRST MILLION-SELLING GROUP. THE MIRACLES' "SHOP AROUND" was inducted into the GRAMMY HALL OF FAME in 2006 !!

  • its not new to me i love this song!!! thanx

  • you're very welcome! have you heard the detroit released version of this Laynski?

  • I heard the Detroit locally-released version sometime back in the 1960's. A friend from Detroit had the vinyl and played it for her friends a couple of years after this revised version of it. Been a lot of years since I heard it, but I do remember thinking it was good that they revised it to this version, as I didn't like the original, more bluesy version. But I can understand where some might prefer that original version, it's just that I preferred this 1960 version.

  • @dalkey130388 there's a new mix of this out?

  • Barry Gordy's first money-maker at Motown.

  • a worthy million record seller!

  • a cool song

  • Glad you like it!

  • Thanks GG, TC, ISSY, ROB JONES and motown250 for your kind comments

  • BRILL

  • Excellent - many thanks.

  • THANKS dalkey yeah another good one my friend ' love it

    ISTHATMUSICICANHEAR

  • have not heard this before now

    great song

    liked it a lot

    many thanks

    TC

  • New to me. It's a good one thanks for sharing.5*****G.G.

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