"We've Come Too Far to End It Now" | ||||
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Single by The Miracles | ||||
from the album Flying High Together | ||||
B-side | "When Sundown Comes" | |||
Released | April 25, 1972 | |||
Format | 7" vinyl | |||
Recorded | Hitsville USA (Studio A); September 21, 1971 | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 2:48 | |||
Label | Tamla / T 54220 | |||
Songwriter(s) |
Johnny Bristol David H.Jones Wade Brown |
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Producer(s) | Johnny Bristol | |||
The Miracles singles chronology | ||||
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We've Come Too Far to End It Now was a 1972 single by Motown Records R&B group The Miracles (AKA "Smokey Robinson & The Miracles") on its Tamla Label subsidiary,(T54220F) and taken from their album, "Flying High Together", the group's final studio album with original lead singer Smokey Robinson.This song charted at #46 on the Billboard Pop Chart, and reached the Top 10 of its R&B chart, peaking at # 9.
Written by Motown staff songwriter Johnny Bristol, along with writers David H. Jones, and Wade Brown, and arranged by legendary writer/producer H. B. Barnum, this song was conceived as the Miracles' "swan song" with Robinson, who left the group shortly thereafter (even though the group actually had one more single release with Robinson from that same LP, I Can't Stand To See You Cry, this song was the group's way of saying goodbye to the Smokey Robinson era and Smokey's way of saying goodbye to the group's fans and to his friends and singing partners in The Miracles, Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore, and Ronnie White). Motown singer/songwriter Johnny Bristol also co-wrote The Supremes' final hit with Diana Ross, "Someday We'll Be Together"). After singing in the group from 1955 until 1972, Robinson decided to retire from the group to spend more time with his family, and to concentrate on his duties as Vice President of the Motown Record Corporation. His wife, and fellow Miracles member Claudette Robinson, left the group when her husband did. Despite having retired from live performances eight years prior in 1964, Claudette continued recording with the group in the studio, finally retiring in 1972 to raise the couple's two children, Berry and Tamla. Marv Tarplin stayed with the group an additional year, then decided to leave the Miracles to work with Smokey, writing songs and eventually touring with him, once Robinson decided to do limited touring as a solo artist.