Special Occasion (The Miracles album)

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Special Occasion is an album by

Track listing

Side one

1. "Yester Love" (Smokey Robinson, Al Cleveland)
2. "If You Can Want" (Robinson)
3. "
   Special Occasion
   " (Robinson, Cleveland)
4. "
   Edward Holland, Jr.
   )
5. "Just Losing You" (Robinson)
6. "Give Her Up" (Robinson)

Side two

1. "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Whitfield, Barrett Strong)
2. "
   Yesterday" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney
   )
3. "Your Mother's Only Daughter" (Robinson, Cleveland)
4. "Much Better Off" (Smokey Robinson,
   Warren Moore
   )
5. "You Only Build Me Up To Tear Me Down" (Robinson)

• Smokey Robinson – lead vocals, producer, executive producer
• Ronnie White – background vocals
• Bobby Rogers – background vocals
• Warren "Pete" Moore – background vocals
• Claudette Robinson
  – background vocals
• Marv Tarplin
  – guitarist

Additional

• Norman Whitfield, producer ("Everybody Needs Love", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine")
• The Funk Brothers – instrumentation

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