Do It Baby (album)

Do It Baby
Studio album by The Miracles
Released	August 21, 1974
Recorded	1974
Genre	Soul
Length	32:23
Label	Tamla TS-334
Producer	Willie Hutch, Freddie Perren, Hal Davis, Leon Ware, Joe Porter
The Miracles chronology
Anthology (1974) Do It Baby (1974) Don't Cha Love It (1975)
Singles from Do It Baby
"Give Me Just Another Day" Released: November 8, 1973 "Do It Baby" Released: June 20, 1974

"Do It Baby" (TS334), was a 1974

The album's cover is a humorous cartoon drawing by Frank Frezzo that depicts the four Miracles, Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore, Ron White, and Billy Griffin onstage, performing the "Miracle" of parting a "Red Sea" of concert-goers.

The obvious difference in the chart placings of the two albums was because, while Renaissance had no hit singles, this album had the advantage of being fronted by the Miracles' first big hit with Griffin, the million-selling title track, "Do It Baby", which proved to the world that The Miracles could indeed have big hits without Smokey Robinson, and that they had not "dropped off the map", as many music critics had predicted they would.

Though not the artistic and creative tour-de-force that Renaissance was, Do It Baby was, nevertheless, still a solid sophomore effort,

In June 2012, The Miracles' Do It Baby album was released on CD, in a 2 in 1 package with their 1973 Renaissance album.^[8][9] With these two albums, The Miracles successfully moved away from the music and style of the Smokey Robinson era, and took an adventurous leap forward to a newer, more sophisticated sound, which would eventually result in the group's biggest hit ever with or without Smokey Robinson, 1976's multimillion selling #1 smash, "Love Machine". ^{[10][unreliable source?][11]}

Track listing

Side one

1. "Do It Baby" (Freddie Perren, Christine Yarian)
2. "Up Again" (Perren, Yarian)
3. "Where Are You Going to My Love" (Billy Day, John Goodison, Tony Hillier, Mike Leslie)
4. "What Is a Heart Good For?" (
   T-Boy Ross
   )
5. "You Are Love" (Perren, Yarian)

Side two

1. "Give Me Just Another Day" (Ware)
2. "We Feel the Same" (Clifton Davis)
3. "Calling Out Your Name" (Ware)
4. "A Foolish Thing to Say" (Jim Grady)
5. "Can't Get Ready for Losing You" (Willie Hutch, Richard Hutch)

Personnel

The Miracles

• Billy Griffin
• Pete Moore
• Ronnie White
• Bobby Rogers

Additional personnel:

• Assorted Los Angeles studio musicians - instrumentation
• David Blumberg, James Anthony Carmichael, Willie Hutch, Freddie Perren, Gene Page, Michael Omartian, Jimmie Haskell - arrangements

References