The Fabulous Miracles

Infobox Album |
Name = The Fabulous Miracles
Type = Album
Artist = The Miracles


Released = February 28 1963
Recorded =
Genre = Soul
Length =
Label = Tamla (Motown)
TM 238
Producer = Smokey Robinson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7smsa9ygb23g link]
Last album = "Christmas with The Miracles"
(1963)
This album = "The Fabulous Miracles"
(1963)
Next album = "The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage"
(1963)

"The Fabulous Miracles" is a 1963 album by The Miracles featuring the million-selling hit, "You've Really Got A Hold On Me", one of the group's most popular singles. It was later reissued as "You've Really Got A Hold On Me".It also features the chart hits "A Love She Can Count On" and "I've Been Good To You" , which The Beatles' John Lennon has identified as his favorite Miracles song. Fact|date=March 2008

The album also features "I Can Take A Hint", which charted on the "Billboard" pop & R&B listings after being issued as the B-side of "A Love She Can Count On". "(Have A) Happy Landing", the B-side of "You Really Got A Hold On Me" which,while never charting nationally, did become a hit on several regional charts,and was performed by the group on their first live album, "The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage".

"The Fabulous Miracles" is only one of three Miracles albums to feature Miracles guitarist and original group member Marv Tarplin on its cover. The Miracles' bass singer Pete Moore is not featured on the album or the cover, as he was serving in the U.S. Armed Services at the time this album was recorded (Moore is shown in a separate photograph on the back cover). While Tarplin remained a member of the Miracles through 1973, he was not featured any of the album covers, except for 1961's "Cookin' with The Miracles", 1962's "I'll Try Something New", and this album.

Track listing

ide one

#"You've Really Got a Hold on Me" (Smokey Robinson)
#"I've Been Good To You" (Robinson)
#"Such is Love, Such is Life" (Robinson)
#"I Can Take a Hint" (Robinson, Janie Bradford, Stanley Ossman, Robert Rogers)
#"Won't You Take Me Back" (Robinson)

ide two

#"A Love She Can Count On" (Robinson)
#"Whatever Makes You Happy" (Robinson, Ronald White)
#"Heartbreak Road" (Robinson, White)
#"Happy Landing" (Robinson, White)
#"Your Love" (Robinson)

*While this album has never been re-released on CD, all of its songs are available from other current sources. These in print albums include, but are not limited to: "Ooo Baby Baby: The Miracles Anthology" , "Motown: Early Classics", "The 35th Anniversary Collection" (Box Set), "Hi, We're The Miracles" (*Rare).

Personnel- The Miracles

* Smokey Robinson: lead vocals, producer, executive producer.
* Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers (co-lead on "You Really Got a Hold on Me"), Warren "Pete" Moore, Claudette Robinson: background vocals
* Marv Tarplin: guitarist

Other Instruments

* The Funk Brothers.