The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey

Infobox Album | Name = The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey
Type = Album
Artist = The Miracles


Released = November 1963
Recorded = 1963
Genre = Soul/pop
Length = 28:42
Label = Tamla
TS 245
Producer = Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Smokey Robinson
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7smsa9igb23g link]
Last album = "The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage" (1963)
This album = "The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey" (1963)
Next album = "Greatest Hits from the Beginning" (1965)

"The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey" is a 1963 album by The Miracles for the Tamla (Motown) label. The album includes the Top 10 single "Mickey's Monkey", written and produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland. "Mickey's Monkey" popularized "The Monkey" as a novelty dance, and has been covered by several artists, including The Hollies, The Young Rascals, and John Mellencamp. Also included is another H-D-H dance-oriented single, "I Gotta Dance to Keep From Crying", a Billboard Top 40 hit, which inspired a cover version by The Who.

Much of the rest of the LP is made up of cover versions of other popular dance songs, including "The Twist", "Twist and Shout", and The Contours' Motown hit "Do You Love Me".

Track listing

ide one

#"Mickey's Monkey" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"Dance What You Wanna" (James Alexander, Sam Cooke, Ronald White)
#"The Wah-Watusi" (Dave Appell, Kal Mann)
#"The Twist" (Hank Ballard)
#"Dancin' Holiday" (Robert Rogers, Smith, Zelda Samuels)
#"Land of a Thousand Dances" (Chris Kenner)

ide two

#"I Gotta Dance to Keep From Crying" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
#"The Monkey Time" (Curtis Mayfield)
#"The Groovey Thing" (Smokey Robinson)
#"Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Russell)
#"Do You Love Me" (Berry Gordy, Jr.)

Personnel-The Miracles

*Lead vocals: Smokey Robinson, Claudette Rogers Robinson (on "The Wah-Watusi")
*Background vocals: Bobby Rogers, Ronnie White, Pete Moore, and Claudette Rogers Robinson
*Guitar: Marvin Tarplin

Others

*Instrumentation: The Funk Brothers

Producers

* William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr., producer
* Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier, producer