Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Tears of a Clown (Clip)

Tamla Motown.1970
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• 1971
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[richmonksgtr]

This is one of the rarest types of songs. Those which simply cannot be improved upon. The lyrics are beautiful, meaningful and brilliant. The music and band are tighter than tightness itself, and Smokey's singing and especially the Vocal Melody are Perfection. Somebody help me: Can I get a Witness?!

[myfeeling4you]

What a cool vid, classics never die !!!

[tommyfuller103]

man i am so glad i grew up listening to this guy and the other artists of Motown. smokey was just pure class and grace! i turned my grand kids on to this music they said to hell with beyonce and Nicki minaj and all the rest of today's crap!

[magovenor]

@richmonksgtr Very well stated, except the perfection line, but it's very good!

[cichlid16]

@Tvidify LMAO

[6400az]

@richmonksgtr

Yes, your right. When you hear it performed elswhere it never sound like this, not even close. The song is great, but you also have to consider the band and the musicianship. The ever present moans of the Bari Sax throughout the track............ Listen to the part @2:25 !

[williamg2552]

When SMOKEY ROBINSON, BOBBY ROGERS, PETE MOORE, RONNIE WHITE , CLAUDETTE ROGERS, and MARV TARPLIN came together, THAT is when The Miracles became THE MIRACLES. ( not GRICE,WICKER, EMERSON "SONNY ROGERS, or CLARENCE HUMBLE" DAWSON.

[williamg2552]

It's just like The Temptations. Are people like Richard Street,Kell Osborne,James "Pee-Wee" Crawford, Vernard Plain, and Arthur Walton considered "Original" Temptations because they were with The Pre- Tempts groups, The Primes and The Distants ? No, because they weren't even CALLED The Temptations back then . It wasn't until the lineup of OTIS WILLIAMS, MELVIN FRANKLIN,PAUL WILLIAMS, EDDIE KENDRICKS, and ELBRIDGE BRYANT that The Temptations became THE TEMPTATIONS.

[williamg2552]

Also, I'm very aware that DAWSON, GRICE, and SONNY ROGERS were in the original group. BUT they weren't known as The MIRACLES back then. They started as The FIVE CHIMES , then the MATADORS. When they became The Miracles , those 3 were history, and cousins Bobby and Claudette Rogers were in. They , as well as Tarplin were all in the group by 1958...and all 3 were listed as original group members on the liner notes of The Miracles' first album...not the departed members.

[williamg2552]

This issue has come up before, so I did research on it. Marv joined The Miracles in 1958...not 1960. Go to Google , and put in the words, " Marv Tarplin 1958". See for yourself.

[MotownMaster]

@williamg2552 Marv is not an original member, they added him in late 1960 when Smokey borrowed him from The Primettes (Supremes) and never gave him back, The Miracles Motown line up was from 1958 on, Claudette replaced her brother Sonny Rogers when the group was called The Matadors, this group started as The 5 Chimes in 1954, Smokey, Pete, Donald Wicker,James Grice and a cat they called Humble were the ORIGINAL members, NOW WHO GOT SCHOOLED?? and im only 27 lol

[MotownMaster]

this song is actually from 1967, it was on their LP "Make It Happen" Tamla 276, a D.J in England played it one day in 1970 and the song became a hit so it was released as a single