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Special Occasion (The Miracles album)

Special Occasion
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Studio album by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
Released August 26, 1968
Recorded 1967–1968
Studio Hitsville USA, Detroit
Genre R&B, pop soul
Length 32:23
Label Tamla
TS-290
Producer Smokey Robinson
Norman Whitfield
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles chronology
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
(1968)
Special Occasion
(1968)
Live!
(1969)
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Allmusic 3/5 stars

Special Occasion is an album by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles released in 1968. It contains three Top 40 hits: "If You Can Want", "Yester Love", and "Special Occasion". Also included are versions of the Motown hits "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Everybody Needs Love" (both made popular by Gladys Knight & The Pips) and The Beatles' "Yesterday". The album's biggest hit was the uptempo "If You Can Want", which just missed the Billboard Pop Top 10, peaking at # 11,and was performed by the group on their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1968 . The Miracles were actually the first group to record "I Heard It Through the Grapevine", before the later hit versions by Marvin Gaye and Gladys Knight & the Pips were done, although the master used on this album is a re-recorded version prepared following the release of the Pips' version.This album also includes the popular Miracles regional hit "B" sides, Much Better Off (which inspired a cover version by late rapper J Dilla), and Give Her Up. Give Her Up first appeared on Martha & The Vandellas 1963 album Come And Get These Memories as Give Him Up.

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