Some people seems to want to dismiss Smokey Robinson, as the main component, of many songs, he wrote or co-wrote with the Miracles, the group he was the primary vocalist for during his years with the group. Which seems to being elevated when the members, Claudette Robinson, his former spouse and Pete Moore, Robert Rogers and the late Ron White wasn’t inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame when Robinson’s was years ago. Which has nothing to do with peope blaming their decision on his appointment. But that’s here or there.
The facts still remains that Smokey Robinson was the source to ignite them to co-write songs for the Temptations during the years when David Ruffin highlighted their songs, as the front man. Just notice, he wrote more songs seperate to be major hits alone. Then any member wrote apart, from him until he had departed the group.
But, with Warren “Pete” Moore, he wrote “Since I lost My Baby” that professes the same theme that Ruffin’s seems to handle about lost loving emotions. Along, with his fellow mates, of harmonizers he explains, as much as he might be achieving it doesn’t means much without the woman he lost. Like, the days of the church choir repeating after the lead vocalist you realize the greatness, of this group. As, with many things concerning the group and producers during their rise to success. Many people fails to get the credit deserving of them.
The late Maurice King, one of their dynamic vocal coaches must have taught them harmony. Which instructed them the way to apply the lyrics to a song. And, the late Cholly Atkins who’ll forever be a mastered instructor simply with any step to any hit song they had during their hit year. And, then the members, of the Detroit’s Symphony members, of the sixties that stands out in the back ground. Peronally listen to the strings in the back ground. Plus, the magnificent Funk Brothers that elevated “Since I Lost My Baby” into a pure soul/pop classic song that’s connected to many Robinson/Moore composition that they co-wrote together.
What people seems to fail to understand that this could have been a straight blues composition decades earlier? How many songs fades with lyrics asking the love interest “What’s Going To Happen To Me”, at the end? I admit many times the songs seems to fade out with out listners hearing it. Which also happens on “My Girl” when again David Ruffin’s exclaims “All He Can Talk About Is My Girl” which fades on many edited down recording place on complilation disc.
This is what will always separate Robinson, from the other many producers that never understood that he Temptations inherited the mantle, from the Drifters, as a romantic style group. If anything amazing about both groups is the facts that the name seems to fit both, of them to a tee.
But, the Temptations dominance was in the presentation, of the many writers, of the Miracles that assisted them into makng them great.