11 tracks
Side one "Try It Baby" "I Second That Emotion" "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" "This Guy's in Love with You" "Funky Broadway" Side two "I'll Try Something New" "A Place in the Sun" "Sweet Inspiration" "Then" "The Impossible Dream"

Music sample

"I Second That Emotion"

11 tracks
Side one "Try It Baby" "I Second That Emotion" "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" "This Guy's in Love with You" "Funky Broadway" Side two "I'll Try Something New" "A Place in the Sun" "Sweet Inspiration" "Then" "The Impossible Dream"

"I Second That Emotion"

Single by Japan

A-side

"I Second That Emotion"

B-side

"Halloween"

Released

1982

Format

Smokey Robinson
Al Cleveland

Japan singles chronology

"Life in Tokyo"
(1979)

"I Second That Emotion"
(1982)

"Gentlemen Take Polaroids"
(1980)

"I Second That Emotion" is a 1967 song written by Smokey Robinson and Al Cleveland. First charting as a hit for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles on the Tamla/Motown label in 1967, "I Second That Emotion" was later a hit single for the group duet Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations, also on the Motown label.

One morning in 1967, Robinson and Cleveland were shopping at Hudson's, a Detroit department store. Robinson found a set of pearls for his wife, Claudette. "They're beautiful." he said to the salesperson. "I sure hope she likes them." Cleveland then added "I second that emotion." Both songwriters laughed at Cleveland's malapropism; he had meant to say "I second that motion." The two were immediately inspired to write a song using the incorrect phrase.

The Miracles' original version of the song finds lead singer and co-writer Smokey Robinson courting a girl who, weary of the game of love, prefers to string her men along and not get romantically involved. Robinson "wants no part" in such a relationship, but promises that if the girl changes her mind, he'll be around ("If you feel like lovin' me/if you've got the notion/I second that emotion.")

This version peaked for three weeks in the United States at #4 on the Billboard pop singles chart in December 1967. It became the Miracles highest charting popular single since "Shop Around". In this song, guitarists Eddie Willis and Robert White came up with their own guitar licks and riffs for this song based on a chord chart that was given to them by the song's producers (this is a classic example of the creativity the Funk Brothers brought to the table during the recording sessions they participated in at the Snake Pit).

The song also topped the Billboard Black Singles Chart and was a million-selling hit for The Miracles, their sixth overall. The song was also a top 30 hit in the UK in 1967, reaching #27.

The song was covered and released by a group duet of Motown labelmates Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations in 1969. This version peaked at #19 in the UK.

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