The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey
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Tamla[1] | ||||
| Producer | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Smokey Robinson | |||
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| Singles from The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey | ||||
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| AllMusic |   [2] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [3] |
| The Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey is the sixth
I Gotta Dance to Keep From Crying", a Billboard Top 40 hit. The album peaked at No. 113 on the Billboard 200.[6]
Much of the rest of the album is made up of popular dance songs, including "
Claudette Robinson takes the lead on the Miracles' remake of The Orlons hit, "The Wah-Watusi
".
The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey was released on CD by Motown Records in 1986, in a two-for-one set with their Away We A Go-Go album, and again by itself in a 1992 release.
Cover art
The album cover art is by Stanley Mouse; it was the artist's first album assignment.[7] Berry Gordy often chose not to use pictures of his performers on the album covers of Motown's early releases, in order that the label not be defined strictly as a "black" record company.[8]
Track listing
Side one
- "Holland-Dozier-Holland) – 2:46
- "Dance What You Wanna" (James Alexander, Sam Cooke, Clifton White) – 2:45
- "The Wah-Watusi" (Dave Appell, Kal Mann) – 2:38
- "The Twist" (Hank Ballard) – 2:29
- "Dancin' Holiday" (Diane Rogers, Fred Smith, Zelda Samuels) – 2:14
- "Land of a Thousand Dances" (Chris Kenner) – 2:26
Side two
- "I Gotta Dance to Keep From Crying" (Holland-Dozier-Holland) – 2:39
- "The Monkey Time" (Curtis Mayfield) – 2:51
- "The Groovey Thing" (Smokey Robinson) – 2:43
- "Bert Russell) – 2:03
- "Berry Gordy, Jr.) – 2:39
Personnel
- lead vocals
- Claudette Rogers Robinson - lead vocals (on "The Wah-Watusi"), background vocals
- Bobby Rogers - background vocals
- Ronnie White - background vocals
- Pete Moore - background vocals
- Marv Tarplin - guitar
Production
- The Funk Brothers - instrumentation
- Smokey Robinson - producer
- Brian Holland - producer
- Lamont Dozier - producer
References
- ^ Popoff, Martin (September 8, 2009). "Goldmine Record Album Price Guide". Penguin – via Google Books.
- ^ "Doin' Mickey's Monkey - The Miracles | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
- ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5. MUZE. p. 795.
- ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 594.
- ^ Cooper, B. Lee (Dec 2007). "From the Bunny Hop to the Funky Chicken: An American Dance Song Discography, 1945-1975". Popular Music and Society. 30 (5): 651–666, 691.
- ^ "The Miracles". Billboard.
- ^ Miller, Stanley Mouse (May 1, 2015). "California Dreams: The Art of Stanley Mouse". Catapult – via Google Books.
- ^ "Berry Gordy: The man who built Motown". The Telegraph. Retrieved 12 June 2021.
