I Like It Like That (Miracles song)

I Like It Like That was a 1964 hit song by Motown Records group The Miracles on its Tamla label subsidiary. It reached the Top 30 of the Billboard Pop chart, charting at #27 and the Top 10 of its R&B chart. This is not the Chris Kenner hit song of the same name, but rather, a Miracles original, written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Marv Tarplin, and is included on the group's first greatest hits album, "Greatest Hits from the Beginning".Like many Miracles hit songs, "I Like It Like That" begins with Tarplin's guitar. It features a "live party" feel, similar to their earlier 1963 hit, "Mickey's Monkey". Smokey encourages everybody to "clap your hands now, everybody, we're gonna have some fun tonight...we're gonna sing and shout...knock ourselves out...and everything's gonna be alright". The other Miracles, Bobby, Ronnie, Pete, and Claudette, join in with their trademark harmony vocals, with chants of "alright", and "I like it like that" as The Funk Brothers add additional instruments to the mix. "I Like It Like That" was released during a period (1964) when Smokey and the other Miracles were so busy touring as the headline act with the famed Motortown Revue shows, and writing big hits for other Motown acts, principally Mary Wells and The Temptations, that their own chart action suffered. Of the group's four single releases that year (the others were "Come On Do The Jerk , (You Can't Let The Boy Overpower)The Man In You, and That's What's Love Is Made Of"), "I Like It Like That" was the only one to crack the Billboard Pop Top 30, while two songs that they wrote for the two aforementioned acts, "My Guy" and "My Girl" respectively, both reached #1 Pop. (My Girl was originally intended to be recorded by The Miracles, had they released it instead, it would have given them a badly needed big hit that year). Fortunately the following year, 1965, would prove to be The Miracles' biggest year ever. The Miracles' "I Like It Like That" has inspired cover versions by Bobby Vee , and Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels . The song's "B" side , " You're So Fine And Sweet" , featured a rare lead by Miracles second tenor Bobby Rogers ,(who did co-lead vocals with Smokey on the group's smash single,"You've Really Got A Hold On Me" the previous year),and inspired a cover version by The Undertakers .

Personnel-The Miracles

*Smokey Robinson
*Bobby Rogers
*Marv Tarplin
*Ronnie White
*Claudette Robinson
*Pete Moore

Additional Music:

The Funk Brothers