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Pure Smokey
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| Pure Smokey | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | March 15, 1974 | |||
| Recorded | September–December 1973 | |||
| Genre | Soul, funk | |||
| Length | 39:29 | |||
| Label | Tamla | |||
| Producer | Smokey Robinson | |||
| Smokey Robinson chronology | ||||
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Pure Smokey is Smokey Robinson's second post-Miracles album, released in 1974. It features the single "Virgin Man." Several songs were written by Robinson with fellow Miracle Marv Tarplin, who left the group a year after Robinson's departure to join him in California and assist him in his solo projects.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |   [1] |
| Creem | C+[2] |
Track listing
[edit]All tracks are produced by Smokey Robinson; except "A Tattoo".
All tracks arranged by Russ Turner, Gene Page and Smokey Robinson; except where indicated.
- "It's Her Turn to Live" (Robinson, Marvin Tarplin) - 3:15
- "The Love Between Me and My Kids" (Robinson) - 2:52
- "Asleep on My Love" (Robinson, Tarplin) - 3:58
- "I Am I Am" (Robinson) - 3:53
- "Just Passing Through" (Tarplin, Janie Bradford, Al Cleveland) - 3:17
- "Virgin Man" (Robinson, Rose Ella Jones) - 5:07
- "She's Only a Baby Herself" (Robinson) - 2:47
- "Fulfill Your Need" (Robinson, Tarplin, Pamela Moffett) - 2:50
- "A Tattoo" (Robinson) - 4:30
"I Am, I Am" arranged by Smokey Robinson and Gene Page
"A Tattoo" produced and arranged by Smokey Robinson and Willie Hutch
Personnel
[edit]- Smokey Robinson – vocals, arranger
- Gene Page – arranger
- Bobbye Hall – percussion
- Henry Davis – bass guitar
- Jeffrey Osborne – drums
- Melvin "Wah Wah" Ragin – guitar
- Russ Turner – keyboards, arranger
- Marvin Tarplin – guitar
- Technical
- Bruce Ellison, Jim Hilton, Larry Miles, Russ Terrana, Tom Knox - recording engineers
- Russ Terrana - mixing engineer
- Robert Gleason - design
- Jim Britt - photography
References
[edit]- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ Christgau, Robert (July 1974). "The Christgau Consumer Guide". Creem. Retrieved February 10, 2017.
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