1965-11-01
Going To A Go-Go
The Miracles
By Maeve C.
Four Top 20 hits open Going To A Go-Go: “The Tracks Of My Tears”, the title song, “Ooo Baby Baby” and “My Girl Has Gone”. It was the first album to credit the group as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and it reached No. 8 on Billboard’s Top LPs and No. 1 on the R&B albums chart.
Robinson produced at Hitsville USA in Detroit, and six of the twelve tracks came from 1963 and 1964 sessions. Marv Tarplin, the group’s guitarist, wrote the opening chords of “The Tracks Of My Tears” as well as the opening riffs of the title song and “My Girl Has Gone”.
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Rights-holder metadata (℗ 2014 Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings): release date November 1, 1965.Independent corroboration: released on November 1, 1965, in the US on Tamla; first album credited to Smokey Robinson and the Miracles; Hitsville USA; producer Robinson; four Top 20 hits; No. 8 Top LPs, No. 1 R&B; Marv Tarplin's opening chords and riffs; six tracks from 1963–64.
Don't Forget the Motor City Motown release database (cited by Wikipedia): LP (M) Tamla T267 Going To A Go-Go dated 01-Nov-65 (stereo S267 the same day), a day-precise entry in a source that marks month-only dates separately.