At number 5 on this months CCS Top Ten is, Smokey Robinson - TopicsExpress



          

At number 5 on this months CCS Top Ten is, Smokey Robinson And The Miracles If You Can Want Tamla Records USA, Tamla Motown UK I know Woody has been giving this tune a fair amount of attention of late and is to a great extent is somewhat of an unheard of or very under played item from the Hitsville record stable but is trulely pure Smokey Robinson And The Miracles from the very start to finish. From 1968 and bang in mist of Motown period of chart dominance is this composition from one William Smokey Robinson and co-produced by him as well. Very much and easy on the ear and feet and a just over easy dancer, with simple production vaues for a Motown record of the period that lacks the full studio orchestra but for a pleasent change just has a constant no frills saxophone and accopanying (im saying Bongo drums and not Conga) pounding a beat thought the entire record, add to this a pretty clean and easy Smokey Robinson vocal aided by some well in the background harmonising vocals by the Miracles and this simple cut takes on another dimension, And although If You Can Want is so very simple in its delivery and yet somehow keeps everything on an almost shoestring production this simplicity is far more of a strengh than a weekness and yet the out and out catchiness of the tune is there from the very first listen and perhaps is the reason why If You Can Want is starting to really pick up plays and the dance floor has come to second this. https://youtube/watch?v=WF8B7XYk658 Russ CCS Sheffield Branch Hiya Russ, actualy all credit goes to Frank for this one, hes been blasting this out all over Manchester & the North West for months now. Played it myself a couple of times at Our Yorkshire Venue on a U K issue, then a couple of weeks ago I was looking at some Smokey Robinson stuff on ebay & saw a black & white U S Tamla demo, buy it now $15.00 plus postage, result, oh joy....... Frank ll be spinning this this coming Saturday the 27th no danger..... great record!!!!
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:06:40 +0000

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