(You Can) Depend On Me - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

[cynthia6637]

01/20/12

[dustee]

I remember watching the Miracles perform this song for the first at The Regal Theater in Chicago. I cried my eyes out when he sung this song. It really takes me back.

[besosmart]

Makes the hair on my neck stand up! Smokey, hope he lives forever.

[stripemister]

Any one with a sound mind after listening to this great sound must state, "truly, Doo-Wop is without a doubt the greatest sounding musioc to one's ear."

[williamg2552]

"Alternate 1960 version of the original 1959 ballad preformed by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles written by Berry Gordy & Smokey Robinson, released on Tamla lable. Played in the party "slow grind" scene in the movie Coolie High. Group Members: Bobby Rogers, Marv Tarplin, Ronald White, Claudette Rogers, and Smokey Robinson." ...and PETE MOORE

[keirra69]

This was on cooley high....great song

[hotsauce4495]

wrote these words to a girlfriend of mine in a letter about a thousand years ago,it seems. thanks for upload.

[SweetStangHeat]

NICE!

[WSenator1]

What a beautiful "heart" song. I remember dancing with a lovely lady to this song in an "oldies" nightclub. What fantasies went through my head that night! Smokey and the Miracles ALWAYS get the job done.

[lovejangie1]

Classic!

[marsover60]

Wow! This is a very refreshing version from the one I purchased in the early 60's. The youthfulness of Smokey's voice is very clear. Songs like this one and "Bad Girl" really made a reputation for him and the Miracles.

[stripemister]

They are singing the way it sound like it did when singing in the hall way's or in the boy's room. Just tremendous.

[early60srcool]

1960. the bronx. the summer. sitting outside with my aunt (a teen-ager at the time babysitting me and my baby brother) and listening to the young guys doowopping with processes wrapped up in their doo-rags, their baylon knits, their wide hustler pants(with cuffs) and their pointy florisheim shoes. Memories, light the corners of what's left of my mind. Smokey brings it all back so sweet and clear.

[amd77j]

@early60srcool That makes two of us. Growing up in Memphis in the sixties, my Mom's sisters babysitting us and not that much older than us. They would play these songs and sing along to them and have us dance with them. You know, songs with these awesome lyrics and performances. We would go someplace and the guys standing on the corner would sing these songs and sound just like this. My aunts and their friends would just go crazy. Man, just great memories.......

[akeoldies]

The most unbelievable singer song writer in the last 50 years, may all of us appreciate anyone who sings Smokey, certainly including the origial Temptations. Akeoldies

[WSenator1]

@akeoldies - in the 60s, Bob Dylan called Smokey "America's Greatest Living Poet."

[smokeyrobinsonfan]

He is singing to me, besides Marvin Gaye, he is the greatest crooner ever.

[shorty1ification]

Claudette White-Robinson was a doll when she was young!!  I can see why Smokey snatched her up as soon as she finished high school and married her, lol!! Another beautiful song from the Motown Master himself...SMOKEY!!!

[hookermuffin69]

i found this cd on the city bus while on my way home! i LOVE it

[shorty1ification]

@hookermuffin69 I bet someone is crying because they lost this classic cd! What city do you live in?

[hookermuffin69]

@shorty1ification in sacramento ca. they must be cuz i love it to death i cant stop listening to it!<3

[shorty1ification]

@hookermuffin69 I have the cd too! I've had mine for about 15 years, and I love it to death too!! The songs are just so great on the cd until it IS hard to stop listening to it!! I love Smokey to death too; he is my MAN!!!

[tbear4pa]

That was one of their early tunes, it dates from 1960, it came out before 'Shop Around', and note the bass lines from the acoustic upright bass in that tune. The bass player in the Miracles actually didn't switch to an electric bass guitar until they did 'You Got a Hold on Me' in early 1963.

[BROKEDOWN1965]

yr talking about mr james jamerson

[PHUDDPU]

lol loved pinktoe57 comment

this is a very cool song

[pinkytoe57]

I almost got pregnat off this record!

[genell55]

go smokey! so Ican depend on loving you!!!

[sleepytimegalz]

Frankie, I love you........

[genell55]

The Miricales must Be in the rock $roll Hall of fame It's Not fair

[williamg2552]

You forgot PETE MOORE .

[williamg2552]

...AND THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME where they just got a star on 3/20/2009. What do these organizations know that THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME DOESNT ?? THE MIRACLES deserve RRHOF Induction !!! WHAT'S THE HOLD UP ??

[williamg2552]

THE MIRACLES are is: THE VOCAL GROUP HALL OF FAME, THE DOO-WOP HALL OF FAME, THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME,

[falkumfishing]

smokey went to hutchins, the rest of the group went to sherrard ( i added this because i ran over my character count in the first comment post) that was some 55 years ago amazing to say the least

[falkumfishing]

when i started high school in 1954 they had a talent show for us freshmen and on the show was sugar chile robinson as the MC my clasemates Ronnie white,warren(pete) moore ,james "Rat"GRice And william robinson at that time they were known as the chimes this was the first time hearing him in a group they did a diablos tune called hold me till eternalty needless to say I been a fan of smokey"s ever since with the miracles and solo

[tonnyy06]

when this song came out its were the miracles not smokey robinson and the miracles althought smokey did its writing. all the early hits were miracles. and the miracles should have been in the record hall of fame. so much of that when someone others that your own kind going to dictate who should be or not to be in the hall of fame. the miracles is in the black hall of fame.

[MrPhillyrick1]

heard this playin during the fight scene at the house party on cooley high. it was a classic. you can hear claudette in the background. what a couple!!

[WSenator1]

What a beautiful song! What a beautiful rendition of it! When I was a teenager, you bought Miracles records on faith - and you were NEVER disappointed!

[williamg2552]

THAT'S CAUSE .....

"OTHER GROUPS may think they're COOL...

BUT , THE MIRACLES RULE !!"

[brownfoxx76]

Smokeys voice is angelic!  brings back memories of Cooley High... this was playing just before the fight scene at the quarter party! lol!

[keltonkng]

I CUT FOR THIS I LOOKED EVER WHERE FOR IT

[williamg2552]

Love

Marv Tarplin's guitar

[1975tooto]

Smokey patterned his voice and style after Nolan Strong of the Diablos! He admits it til this day! The Smokey of this time sounds just like Nolan!!

[gracieg56]

always loved this song by smokey thanks

[emmitchell08]

How can i hear the supremes rendition of this song i hear its amazing?

[Individuell83]

It's nice sooo quiet

the supremes version is also great it's a bit harder

5* for this =)

[fonzie1217]

click on alphonse sings smokey,he's the new lead singer of the miracles.

[distantlovr]

Smokey is indeed a poet , his writing of lyrics are absolutely fabulous, sooooo sweet!!!!

[stanskibby]

Man, Smokey is a straight-up male bird! he closed doo-whop and continued with Motown. That is definitely putting the nut in a shell!

i'll always love him and the Miracles. I learned from him. Thank you Smoke!

[tonnyy06]

the most underrated songs and never get that much play. but the best love ballad.

[faithful4]

Ok, I like this version. I didn't think I would at first. Thank you.

[paul51]

I LOVED this song . . . haven't heard it in quite some time . . . thanks!!

[s2beauty]

This was in the Cooley High movie I think

[lovelychick84]

I've been wanting to listen to this version for two years now since I heard a :30 second sample of it at Rhino. Thank you so much for posting this. :-)

[williamg2552]

That's T-A-M-L-A. It's The #1 subsidary label of MOTOWN RECORDS. Oh,and a trivia point..Smokey and Claudette named their daughter TAMLA... after the record label.

[winsome1235]

Smokey put the R in Romance.

[myjdjsnfjks]

the best

[stlsoul]

All I can say is Smokey's smokin'

[brownfoxx76]

This is the song that was playing on Cooley High when the fight broke out! LMAO!

[bigkeezo]

you right preach was gettin his mack on ha my 1st time hearin this cut was in cooley love this

[paul51]

I haven't heard this song in years. WOW. Thanks.

[stud2u4me]

> JUST DAMN AWESOME>AWESOME>AWESOME>THANKS 4

THIS SONG>IT MADE ME THINK I WAS 20 AGAIN>lol

[2797921]

this was on cooley high along with oooh baby baby

[ATS68]

The quintessential goodnight kiss at the front porch jam! Grown Folks Rule!

[FrankeyHoboken]

After doing some more research I found out that this is the alternate version recorded in 1960, to the original version recorded in 1959. In all between 1959 and 1960 Smokey recorded 3 versions of this song for the Talma lable.

[lovelychick84]

@FrankeyHoboken Oh wow, I'm aware of 2 versions but 3 that's insane but it makes since because I heard there were 3 versions to "Shop Around" as well. Whether or not it's true is anybody's conjecture.

[hogan85]

i like the original version better

[FrankeyHoboken]

Actually Smokey and the Miracles first recorded "(You Can)Depend on Me" in 1960, on Talma lable. It was covered by the Temptation in 1965 on their "The Temptations Sing Smokey" album.

[williamg2552]

@FrankeyHoboken You forgot to list Miracles bass singer PETE MOORE among the credits.

[FrankeyHoboken]

@williamg2552 Thank You! I can't believe I missed that!