wow the more and more i study the old timers , the more i realize black artists have never and will never be given their due credit that they deserve .
Smokey Robinson ,Michael Jackson ,Stevie Wonder ,James Brwon,Aretha Franklin, diana ross,Jackie Wilson ,Bo Diddley ,Chuck Berry,Little Richard Just to name a FEW!!! All the whites can throw at you is elvis , johnny cash n the beatles n they get all the props n respect and attention in the music world. James Brown Blows them all out the water
@americangangster86 Really? The only great white artists you can think of are Elvis, the Beatles, and Johnny Cash? Michalengelo, Da Vinci, Beethoven, Mozart, Raephael, and Gionni just disappear from history when you showed up and commented? I agree many great artists were black, but your comment only makes you look stupid. And Michael Jackson's not even a valid argument, since you're saying that black musicians are never recognized and he's the most famous pop artist ever.
@Lalabeachbetty When did i say MJ was the best one ever? I was talking about the music scene IN AMERICA In the last 60-70 Years. All the artists i named were artists who blew in America. Im not talking about overall history.
@americangangster86 beg to differ, the Rolling Stones always said that black music influenced them, everyone knows that Elvis NEVER invented rock and roll,it was already there when he came around, and the Beatles are important because they invented pop music. You also forgot to mention Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington,Ella Fitzgerald,Louie Armstrong, Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne,Nina Simone...need I go on? Educate thyself
@56postoffice LOL Try telling me some people i dont know. anyways i NEVER claimed Elvis invented rock lol. And I hope you were not expecting me to name every single artist in my head off the top on youtube in one little comments box . . But then it is what it is.Im sticking to guns on this , in regards to my original statement, In terms of The contributions Blacks made to American music and worldwide. . .Our guys n girls still dont get there fair due!
@56postoffice i'm 65 and i was there when rock and roll started. we had to fight to be able to listen to black music. it was vilified in the church, the press, the pulpit and by the government. elvis didn't invent rock and roll but he was the white man who made it ok to listen to this music. the leaders of this revolution were hounded everywhere they went. chuck berry did jail time. presley got put in the army. little richard went into the church because he was afraid.
And yet despite all of these extremely negative actions, it doesn't seem to have stopped many people from attending these type of groupings (church...etc) it's not like this is the first or last time this behavior has been exhibited by a religious or government body either... ><. Makes you wonder what would history have turned out like if people would have just pulled their panties out of their ass. apologies to those who wear panties... figure of speech.
@Wehategod Claudette had several miscarriages so she stopped performing live with the group, but continued to record with them. She and Smokey were finally blessed with two healthy children.
How did he survive the 60's (war), 70's (drugs), 80's(more drugs & recession) and make it to 70 yrs old & not age? He really is a Miracle! God, that's how!
So weird when I was little motown songs where the soundtrack to my childhood. Like My parents surrounded me with their music. I remember listening to this song thinking it was the walls singing I heard it so much and it be so loud and didn't really recognize it was coming from the vinyl player. When I see my old house the walls to me have the voice of smokey lol I was too imaginative when I was little.
@strandwolf I hear that brother.... At first at age 15 I played the hell out of my old lp and the fast tracks were worn smooth and roached out. I came back years later and played the unworn tracks came to realize that I liked Whos loving you as my favorite Of course I have since bought 4 traks then 8 tracks and cds etc of the Miracles and wore them out too . Doesn't everybody?? lol any way- I liked your comment. Ripple
@twinightable It was a Number One hit for The Miracles in 1960. And here we are in 2010...this doesn't exactly call for higher mathematics, young whippersnapper ;).
im 19...and was brought up around old music, thanks to my parents and grandparents. i love this kind of music...so much better than what we here nowadays...not that i dont like the music now lol. diana ross is amazing!!! or am i just wierd lol
no im the same way im 17 and i am raised by my grandmother. I love oldies. but i still listen to todays music underground hiphop (mainstream sucks) and select RnB artists
how can good taste look weird...I did the same (roughly 30 years ago)...must a group of two that interest you now but certainly mainstrean sucks...as it ever did...learn tp lay the saxophone
@55949erfan This was a clip filmed in 1964,on the Detroit- based dance party show, "Teentown". By then, Shop Around was a "golden oldie. This would put Smokey and Bobby's ages at 24, Pete and Ronnie were about a year older, @ 25.
the sound quality is rubbish but the pics are great. if anyone wants to hear this track with good sound quality look for the one that's linked to the American Graffiti soundtrack. Interesting thing is how 50s rather than Motown it sounds in that context. Of course it's on the absolute cusp of the two.
main comments ahould surely be about the dance routine. Studiedly casual, the four blokes together, one in specs. All in suits. The shuffles and the claps seem to be ad hoc but are choreographed. Totally great stuff.
Today, THE MIRACLES are considered LEGENDS . They have over 50 chart hits, numerous hit albums, 3 songs in ROLLING STONE'S list of the 500 GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME, have 4 songs in THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME, and just got a star on the HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME. THE CAPTAIN and TENNILLE are essentially nothing more than a 70's cover band.
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yes captain and tenile will also be remebered for do that to me one more time,,and also muskrat love as they tried to hang on to tere faim in the 80,s
But , The Miracles are innovators. They wrote their own material...and the fact is ...they didn't record the song in 1976...they recorded it in 1960...and today it's a classic. If they hadn't recorded it first, the Captain and Tennelle would have had anything to copy . The fact is...a great song is a great song..no matter when it was recorded ...and again , it's The Miracles' version that today is regarded as the classic,,, not the Captain and Tennille's version.
You can't go by 'what if's" or "maybes" -only what is. And "what is" is simply this: anybody can do covers or remakes. It happens all the time .The true innovators are those who write their own material, and have hits with it again and again . The Miracles are the most covered Motown act of all time. Everybody covers their tunes, ..and have for the last 50 years. Now, maybe you prefer The Captain and Tennelle's version of Shop Around over that of The Miracles', and if so, that's your privilege.
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Oh no, Smokey's version of Shop Around would not have held up in 1976.
And just in case some of you have forgotten: Elton John, Barry Manilow, Rod Steward, Billy Joel, ABBA, Olivia Newton John, Al Steward, Chicago, Eagles, Peter Frampton, Supertramp, Earth Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Bee Gees, The Doobies, Kansas, Carly Simon, John Denver, Frankie Valli, and many others like them, were in their primes during 1976.
...Are some of you beginning to get the picture now? Guess what?..."I do."
willamg2552....you are correct but it didn't take long for the disc jockeys in detroit and windsor (WXYZ and CKLW) to refer to them as "the Shop Around gang of fame, Smokey Robinson and the Miricles".
Claudette and Smokey were married for many years. She had several miscarriages before giving birth to their two children. Because of those miscarriages she stopped performing live with the group but continued to record with them.
Because this clip is actually from 1964...and "Shop Around" was an oldie by then. The girl in the group was Smokey's wife Claudette, and she retired from touring and live performances that year for health reasons.
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The "Captain & Tennille" will always be remembered for their #1 Hit, "Love Will Keep Us Together" in 1975; and rightfully so. But just one year later, Toni Tennille accomplished what even Smokey Robinson couldn't do in 1960. She put some much needed "Pop Life" into an old Miracles tune called, "Shop Around."...
...Captain & Tennille refined the song with a more energetic and upbeat mixture of pop, funk, and blues, to what was the former #2 song from 1960.
But the year, "1976" will always be revered as perhaps one of the two greatest, and most competitive years ever in Pop music history, which may have accounted for Captain & Tennille's #4 showing of what turned out to be only one of many merited non-Chart Topping Hits from 1976!
The Miracles' original version of "Shop Around" charted higher than The Captain and Tennille's remake. #2 Pop for the Miracles versus #4 for C &T. Their original version sold over a million copies,was a 2006 Grammy Hall Of Fame Inductee, and ranked #495 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.Ask the average person on the street who recorded "Shop Around ....and I guarantee you they'll say, "The Miracles".
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I'm not sure why you just recited some of the same information I wrote below, yet on the other hand, you didn't bother reading my explanation as to how, and why Smokey's version placed 2 notches higher than Captain And Tennille's. The fact still remains, that years "1975" and '76 were by far, the most competitive years in Pop music history. Therefore, Smokey's 1960 version of "Shop Around" in all likelihood, would not have even made the Top 40 had it been released in 1976.
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oh yes toni tennile version of the old smokey song breathed a new life and younger feel in to a old lifeless song,,yrt its the mirracles version every one rates for some strange reason..
In 1960 I was diggin' on the Beach Boys out here in Southern California cause surfin' was the thing. But it didn't take long for the Supremes, and Smokey Robinson to take over our hearts. Oh, the Temptations and the Four Tops too.
Oh, man! Do I remember this one when it was released in 1960. I was 13 yrs old at the time and I would see Smokey come and go from "Hitsville" (I sat on a milk cart across the street from the building along with another friend). My sister got her hands on the "Detroit Version" and when I heard it, I knew it was going to be a hit!
OMG me too and I'm only 19 lol but I'm so glad I learned about the true soul music from my mom's records and my sister's Motown cd. I also love northern soul even though it doesn't get as much recognition as Motown's music.
In 1968 I saw Smokey and the Miracles. SOme one in the crowd kept yelling between song "Smokey sing Shop around' even at that time it was an oldie. They never sang it that night.
Motown's FIRST GROUP.... The one that put the label on the map !!! The MIRACLES STARTED THE ENTIRE MOTOWN PHENOMONON !!! (and THIS song was the label's FIRST million-seller ) !!!
Great song,among the best from the 60's!Have always love this song,even though I'm 22 and this came out more than a quarter of a century before I was born!From 1960,49 years ago!Great footage too!
Back in the 50's & 60's,America had TWO major music industry magazines, CASH BOX and BILLBOARD. Although SHOP AROUND only reached #2 on BILLBOARD'S Pop Chart...it DID reach #1 Pop on CASH BOX'S CHART. It also reached # 1 R&B on BILLBOARD'S.
Northern Soul, bah. This is Detroit soul, later in the UK Mod soul and then finally the North of England cottoned on to its brilliance and tried to comandeer it.
Please Mr Postman was the first # 1 pop hit for MOTOWN....BUT NOT the first MILLION-SELLER....SHOP AROUND WAS..That is a matter of HISTORIC FACT. Please see "THE MIRACLES" in Wikipedia for details.
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 !!
That is what I meant. Although "Shop" was a million seller, it peaked at #2 on Billboard pop charts, while "Postman" went to #1 on Billboard pop charts. A million seller did not always have to make Billboard pop charts, Before "Papa's Got a Brand new Bag" James Brown had million sellers on r&b chart but not on pop charts.
john sebastian/of loving spoonful at beginning of video??
chezruss 4 days ago
Smokey has a great voice, like honey.
chriscoburn69 1 month ago
2 cool for school!!
Nancyjean24 3 months ago
Love your description @BenKarbie!
JohannesDT 3 months ago
This is our opening number in show choir this year!
JuliaTheBeatleFreak 4 months ago
eu fico boba como esses caras cantavam sem fazer esforço nem mexer na voz com sistema de computador... tinha que ser no gogo mesmo... PERFEITO! \0/
kmilacbitar 5 months ago in playlist Mais vídeos de BenKarbie
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hellwalkerable 7 months ago
This is a wonderful record. Vocally, great combination of technique and expression. And that arrangement! Perfect.
ChristophePhilippe 8 months ago
wow the more and more i study the old timers , the more i realize black artists have never and will never be given their due credit that they deserve .
Smokey Robinson ,Michael Jackson ,Stevie Wonder ,James Brwon,Aretha Franklin, diana ross,Jackie Wilson ,Bo Diddley ,Chuck Berry,Little Richard Just to name a FEW!!! All the whites can throw at you is elvis , johnny cash n the beatles n they get all the props n respect and attention in the music world. James Brown Blows them all out the water
americangangster86 9 months ago
@americangangster86 Really? The only great white artists you can think of are Elvis, the Beatles, and Johnny Cash? Michalengelo, Da Vinci, Beethoven, Mozart, Raephael, and Gionni just disappear from history when you showed up and commented? I agree many great artists were black, but your comment only makes you look stupid. And Michael Jackson's not even a valid argument, since you're saying that black musicians are never recognized and he's the most famous pop artist ever.
Lalabeachbetty 4 months ago
@Lalabeachbetty When did i say MJ was the best one ever? I was talking about the music scene IN AMERICA In the last 60-70 Years. All the artists i named were artists who blew in America. Im not talking about overall history.
americangangster86 4 months ago
@americangangster86 beg to differ, the Rolling Stones always said that black music influenced them, everyone knows that Elvis NEVER invented rock and roll,it was already there when he came around, and the Beatles are important because they invented pop music. You also forgot to mention Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington,Ella Fitzgerald,Louie Armstrong, Eartha Kitt, Lena Horne,Nina Simone...need I go on? Educate thyself
56postoffice 4 months ago
@56postoffice LOL Try telling me some people i dont know. anyways i NEVER claimed Elvis invented rock lol. And I hope you were not expecting me to name every single artist in my head off the top on youtube in one little comments box . . But then it is what it is.Im sticking to guns on this , in regards to my original statement, In terms of The contributions Blacks made to American music and worldwide. . .Our guys n girls still dont get there fair due!
americangangster86 4 months ago
@56postoffice i'm 65 and i was there when rock and roll started. we had to fight to be able to listen to black music. it was vilified in the church, the press, the pulpit and by the government. elvis didn't invent rock and roll but he was the white man who made it ok to listen to this music. the leaders of this revolution were hounded everywhere they went. chuck berry did jail time. presley got put in the army. little richard went into the church because he was afraid.
denisjl100 3 months ago
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And yet despite all of these extremely negative actions, it doesn't seem to have stopped many people from attending these type of groupings (church...etc) it's not like this is the first or last time this behavior has been exhibited by a religious or government body either... ><. Makes you wonder what would history have turned out like if people would have just pulled their panties out of their ass. apologies to those who wear panties... figure of speech.
LrdElderon 1 month ago
My mama told me the same thing.. in one ear and out the other.. Now I'm listening
DrFeelRotten 10 months ago
smokey looks like a black version of louis prima
RememberSoCal 11 months ago
this was Teen Town, they also did "Come On Do The Jerk" yesterday was Smokey & Bobby's birthday
MotownMaster 1 year ago
You better sleep around...?
nataliflavoured 1 year ago
muy estilo
mickld88 1 year ago
estilo = Smokey Robinson
extasisNOW 1 year ago
the miracles was a lil stiff when it comes to dancing lol they move like old men
willyabackoff 1 year ago
Hey wheres Claudette Robinson ?
Wehategod 1 year ago
@Wehategod Claudette had several miscarriages so she stopped performing live with the group, but continued to record with them. She and Smokey were finally blessed with two healthy children.
luvureally 1 year ago
How did he survive the 60's (war), 70's (drugs), 80's(more drugs & recession) and make it to 70 yrs old & not age? He really is a Miracle! God, that's how!
Zapppo 1 year ago
Good advice.
dp100eboggan 1 year ago
Mary Wells was one of early successes. Marvelletes had first numba one Please Mr Postman
seldenkid 1 year ago
So weird when I was little motown songs where the soundtrack to my childhood. Like My parents surrounded me with their music. I remember listening to this song thinking it was the walls singing I heard it so much and it be so loud and didn't really recognize it was coming from the vinyl player. When I see my old house the walls to me have the voice of smokey lol I was too imaginative when I was little.
ikkinnikk 1 year ago 2
@ikkinnikk Same for me except I was a kid in the 70s - 80s! I know exactly how u feel.
dp100eboggan 1 year ago
> TO THOSE THAT VOTED THUMBS DOWN ON THIS MASTERPIECE > WHY ARE
YOU HERE ANYWAY ? > PEACE <
stud2me4u 1 year ago
> THIS IS WHAT YOU CALL A MASTERPIECE > PRICELESS <
stud2me4u 1 year ago 2
@stud2me4u And the flipside of the 45, "Who's Loving You" ain't half bad either!!!
strandwolf 1 year ago 2
@strandwolf > I agree with your comment 100%%% > BOTH SONGS ARE MASTERPIECES FOR YESTERDAY > TODAY & FOREVER > PEACE <
stud2me4u 1 year ago 2
@strandwolf I hear that brother.... At first at age 15 I played the hell out of my old lp and the fast tracks were worn smooth and roached out. I came back years later and played the unworn tracks came to realize that I liked Whos loving you as my favorite Of course I have since bought 4 traks then 8 tracks and cds etc of the Miracles and wore them out too . Doesn't everybody?? lol any way- I liked your comment. Ripple
5871248 1 year ago
How old is this song? About how many years old maybe? Sorry I have no idea I'm not even 14 yet
twinightable 1 year ago
@twinightable from 1960
newbornwandertoyota 1 year ago
@twinightable It was a Number One hit for The Miracles in 1960. And here we are in 2010...this doesn't exactly call for higher mathematics, young whippersnapper ;).
strandwolf 1 year ago
listen to the radiants,"father knows best". rather similar me thinks. both top knotch.
sytojufoclk 1 year ago
Ohhh hell yeah you can dig this! Love 50s and early 60s music!
gajda1984 1 year ago
Thats the point of the song brotha to find a great wife !!
haweye79 1 year ago
sweet track
KingdomofSteel 2 years ago
im 19...and was brought up around old music, thanks to my parents and grandparents. i love this kind of music...so much better than what we here nowadays...not that i dont like the music now lol. diana ross is amazing!!! or am i just wierd lol
stubbystump91 2 years ago 4
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no im the same way im 17 and i am raised by my grandmother. I love oldies. but i still listen to todays music underground hiphop (mainstream sucks) and select RnB artists
Floetry30 2 years ago
how can good taste look weird...I did the same (roughly 30 years ago)...must a group of two that interest you now but certainly mainstrean sucks...as it ever did...learn tp lay the saxophone
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
I think Smokey was about 19 or 20 years old on this clip, correct me if im wrong
55949erfan 2 years ago
@55949erfan This was a clip filmed in 1964,on the Detroit- based dance party show, "Teentown". By then, Shop Around was a "golden oldie. This would put Smokey and Bobby's ages at 24, Pete and Ronnie were about a year older, @ 25.
williamg2552 1 year ago
I love their moves!
kerrykliveinreality7 2 years ago 2
the sound quality is rubbish but the pics are great. if anyone wants to hear this track with good sound quality look for the one that's linked to the American Graffiti soundtrack. Interesting thing is how 50s rather than Motown it sounds in that context. Of course it's on the absolute cusp of the two.
jasonpfinch 2 years ago
This is just fine, thanks!
dowopper51 2 years ago
main comments ahould surely be about the dance routine. Studiedly casual, the four blokes together, one in specs. All in suits. The shuffles and the claps seem to be ad hoc but are choreographed. Totally great stuff.
jasonpfinch 2 years ago 2
i remeber going to the dairy freeze and hearing this on the radio,then getting my cokes from a nice girl in skates.60s were great
tibta4tibta 2 years ago 6
@tibta4tibta What a memory I am from NYC do you recall the lords of flatbush (Brooklyn NY) docpete1968
docpete1968 1 year ago
Brings back so many memories . . .
willb48 2 years ago 5
@willb48 im surprised you can remember them .. being so old :p
YOBRO79 1 year ago
Today, THE MIRACLES are considered LEGENDS . They have over 50 chart hits, numerous hit albums, 3 songs in ROLLING STONE'S list of the 500 GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME, have 4 songs in THE GRAMMY HALL OF FAME, and just got a star on the HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME. THE CAPTAIN and TENNILLE are essentially nothing more than a 70's cover band.
williamg2552 2 years ago 13
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CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE Sung this song much better in 1976~
AsianTigeress 2 years ago
...ROLLING STONE'S, BILLBOARD'S, and VH-1'S. The Captain and Tennille are on NONE of these lists. Think about it.
williamg2552 2 years ago
Also, THE MIRACLES are on ALL 3 LISTS of The top 100 artists of ALL TIME...
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yes captain and tenile will also be remebered for do that to me one more time,,and also muskrat love as they tried to hang on to tere faim in the 80,s
TheShamtube 2 years ago
the coolest....'nuff said.
150tugman 2 years ago 3
But , The Miracles are innovators. They wrote their own material...and the fact is ...they didn't record the song in 1976...they recorded it in 1960...and today it's a classic. If they hadn't recorded it first, the Captain and Tennelle would have had anything to copy . The fact is...a great song is a great song..no matter when it was recorded ...and again , it's The Miracles' version that today is regarded as the classic,,, not the Captain and Tennille's version.
williamg2552 2 years ago 5
You can't go by 'what if's" or "maybes" -only what is. And "what is" is simply this: anybody can do covers or remakes. It happens all the time .The true innovators are those who write their own material, and have hits with it again and again . The Miracles are the most covered Motown act of all time. Everybody covers their tunes, ..and have for the last 50 years. Now, maybe you prefer The Captain and Tennelle's version of Shop Around over that of The Miracles', and if so, that's your privilege.
williamg2552 2 years ago 3
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Oh no, Smokey's version of Shop Around would not have held up in 1976.
And just in case some of you have forgotten: Elton John, Barry Manilow, Rod Steward, Billy Joel, ABBA, Olivia Newton John, Al Steward, Chicago, Eagles, Peter Frampton, Supertramp, Earth Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Bee Gees, The Doobies, Kansas, Carly Simon, John Denver, Frankie Valli, and many others like them, were in their primes during 1976.
...Are some of you beginning to get the picture now? Guess what?..."I do."
70sPopRock 2 years ago
The Miracles version also hit # 1 Pop on the Cash Box top 100 Chart and #1 R&B on Billboards.
" Other Groups are COOL....
But THE MIRACLES RULE !!"
williamg2552 2 years ago 3
willamg2552....you are correct but it didn't take long for the disc jockeys in detroit and windsor (WXYZ and CKLW) to refer to them as "the Shop Around gang of fame, Smokey Robinson and the Miricles".
6925thcobras 2 years ago
hows come the girl isnt in there?
kensingtonpalace 2 years ago
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"hows come the girl isnt in there?"
Claudette and Smokey were married for many years. She had several miscarriages before giving birth to their two children. Because of those miscarriages she stopped performing live with the group but continued to record with them.
luvureally 2 years ago
you read girly magazines??
PoireauMan68 1 year ago
Because this clip is actually from 1964...and "Shop Around" was an oldie by then. The girl in the group was Smokey's wife Claudette, and she retired from touring and live performances that year for health reasons.
williamg2552 2 years ago
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The "Captain & Tennille" will always be remembered for their #1 Hit, "Love Will Keep Us Together" in 1975; and rightfully so. But just one year later, Toni Tennille accomplished what even Smokey Robinson couldn't do in 1960. She put some much needed "Pop Life" into an old Miracles tune called, "Shop Around."...
70sPopRock 2 years ago
...Captain & Tennille refined the song with a more energetic and upbeat mixture of pop, funk, and blues, to what was the former #2 song from 1960.
But the year, "1976" will always be revered as perhaps one of the two greatest, and most competitive years ever in Pop music history, which may have accounted for Captain & Tennille's #4 showing of what turned out to be only one of many merited non-Chart Topping Hits from 1976!
70sPopRock 2 years ago
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@70sPopRock "Captain & Tennille refined the song with a more energetic and upbeat mixture of pop, funk, and blues"
LMAO! tears rolling down face, gasping for air, peeing on myself, falling from my chair! Thanks for the laugh!
luvureally 1 year ago
The Miracles' original version of "Shop Around" charted higher than The Captain and Tennille's remake. #2 Pop for the Miracles versus #4 for C &T. Their original version sold over a million copies,was a 2006 Grammy Hall Of Fame Inductee, and ranked #495 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs Of All Time.Ask the average person on the street who recorded "Shop Around ....and I guarantee you they'll say, "The Miracles".
So much for remakes.
williamg2552 2 years ago 3
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I'm not sure why you just recited some of the same information I wrote below, yet on the other hand, you didn't bother reading my explanation as to how, and why Smokey's version placed 2 notches higher than Captain And Tennille's. The fact still remains, that years "1975" and '76 were by far, the most competitive years in Pop music history. Therefore, Smokey's 1960 version of "Shop Around" in all likelihood, would not have even made the Top 40 had it been released in 1976.
Does that help some?
70sPopRock 2 years ago
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oh yes toni tennile version of the old smokey song breathed a new life and younger feel in to a old lifeless song,,yrt its the mirracles version every one rates for some strange reason..
TheShamtube 2 years ago
Yes, let's all shop around!!! Go for it, Smokey!!
mg1hb 2 years ago 2
Were doiing this song in choir at school...
guitarbeast96 2 years ago
Have just seen the film, Standing in the shadows of motown about the people behind the hits of motown music.
jaever 2 years ago
Should be required listening for all young men.
philhh65 2 years ago 2
I wish I lived during these times. The music is not anything like this now days.
Dusty696969 2 years ago 5
Back then, (1960), they were just known as 'The MIRACLES" (not "Smokey Robinson and The Miracles) .
williamg2552 2 years ago 2
In 1960 I was diggin' on the Beach Boys out here in Southern California cause surfin' was the thing. But it didn't take long for the Supremes, and Smokey Robinson to take over our hearts. Oh, the Temptations and the Four Tops too.
6silhouette5 2 years ago
Oh, man! Do I remember this one when it was released in 1960. I was 13 yrs old at the time and I would see Smokey come and go from "Hitsville" (I sat on a milk cart across the street from the building along with another friend). My sister got her hands on the "Detroit Version" and when I heard it, I knew it was going to be a hit!
xunclexx 2 years ago 3
I feel like doing the mashed potatoes whenever I hear this song...lol.
MissMaria10 2 years ago 2
OMG me too and I'm only 19 lol but I'm so glad I learned about the true soul music from my mom's records and my sister's Motown cd. I also love northern soul even though it doesn't get as much recognition as Motown's music.
Bonitaymorena 2 years ago
Motown rocks!!!
xxx1v3tt3xxx 2 years ago
Yeah, good advice!!!!!!
1983wildchild 2 years ago
In 1968 I saw Smokey and the Miracles. SOme one in the crowd kept yelling between song "Smokey sing Shop around' even at that time it was an oldie. They never sang it that night.
bufb 2 years ago
Wow, I didn't realize Smokey had/has so many great songs.
betsiecow 2 years ago
i just heard this on don't forget the lyrics great song
pith191 2 years ago
Motown's FIRST GROUP.... The one that put the label on the map !!! The MIRACLES STARTED THE ENTIRE MOTOWN PHENOMONON !!! (and THIS song was the label's FIRST million-seller ) !!!
williamg2552 2 years ago 21
That's right..Motown's first # 1 hit.
ddinero88 2 years ago
@williamg2552 docpete1968 What about Supremes Temptations Spinners Etc ???answer is welcome I love to learn
docpete1968 1 year ago
@docpete1968 All of the artists you mentioned came to Motown AFTER The Miracles . The Miracles were the first group on the Motown label.
williamg2552 1 year ago
I posted a true stereo version of "Shop Around" in the "Video Reponses" above...Please check it out... Thanks.
THEmotownboy 2 years ago
thanks man finally good quality
verizonkeybored 2 years ago
This actually came out in 1959,,,I wasn't even tht about but I swear I luv this and u really got a hold on me
cripgurl19 2 years ago
Great song,among the best from the 60's!Have always love this song,even though I'm 22 and this came out more than a quarter of a century before I was born!From 1960,49 years ago!Great footage too!
nema1218 2 years ago
I'm still shoppin'!
lol
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TalithaK 2 years ago 2
Back in the 50's & 60's,America had TWO major music industry magazines, CASH BOX and BILLBOARD. Although SHOP AROUND only reached #2 on BILLBOARD'S Pop Chart...it DID reach #1 Pop on CASH BOX'S CHART. It also reached # 1 R&B on BILLBOARD'S.
williamg2552 2 years ago
Detroit soul all day. When I think of reasons why I love the United States, one of the first things I think of is music like this.
Rickthomas7 2 years ago
Northern Soul, bah. This is Detroit soul, later in the UK Mod soul and then finally the North of England cottoned on to its brilliance and tried to comandeer it.
Greystalk 2 years ago
Max Weinberg at the outset there
unclehalliburton 2 years ago
the voice and mouth are off-key
danielletalley98 2 years ago
You mean they're out of synch. I noticed that
IrisMG 2 years ago
yeah thx
danielletalley98 2 years ago
so fun!
looseythegoosey 2 years ago
One of the most perfect pop-soul songs EVER made!
lhcarter 2 years ago
I'm still shopping lol
SupaStarry 2 years ago 2
this is classic! thanks for posting this
Angelsbaby42 2 years ago
great piece of art
tendarine1 2 years ago
And I am massive northern soul fan lol, keeping the faith ooooh yes
alfiesgirluk 3 years ago
Aww this has to be my personal favourite
alfiesgirluk 3 years ago
keep your freedom for as long as you can!
mangaspiked 3 years ago
click on, smokey robinson tribute artist, he's the new lead singer of the miracles.
fonzie1217 3 years ago
Great song
Dracosgal8 3 years ago 2
Smokey Robinson's mother is a queen!
tocklove7 3 years ago
Please Mr Postman was the first # 1 pop hit for MOTOWN....BUT NOT the first MILLION-SELLER....SHOP AROUND WAS..That is a matter of HISTORIC FACT. Please see "THE MIRACLES" in Wikipedia for details.
williamg2552 3 years ago
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 !!
williamg2552 3 years ago
no...that was the first number 1 R&B song for motown the first million seller was please mr.postman it was number 1 on the R&B and pop charts
8656627 3 years ago
8656627 Shop around was first million seller and #2 Billboard pop chart, "Postman" was first #1 pop hit and also a million seller of course.
luvureally 3 years ago
u mean mr.postman was the first number 1 billboard record motown had check the records n the billboard chats meant everything
8656627 3 years ago
That is what I meant. Although "Shop" was a million seller, it peaked at #2 on Billboard pop charts, while "Postman" went to #1 on Billboard pop charts. A million seller did not always have to make Billboard pop charts, Before "Papa's Got a Brand new Bag" James Brown had million sellers on r&b chart but not on pop charts.
KhemuLuxons 3 years ago
it's funny, beacuse now if you ask him to sing this he still does all the moves and everything
alexissingleton 3 years ago
i have this on the smokey robinson and the miracles definitive performances. lovely song
kiddiequeenofmotown 3 years ago 4
The lips don't match the song! It's a great clip, but if you fix it a little it would be better!
Deannamray 3 years ago
1st comment good song
kramerspadowskiki 3 years ago 3