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 an album by

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

1. "
   Holland-Dozier-Holland
   ) – 2:46
2. "Dance What You Wanna" (James Alexander, Sam Cooke, Clifton White) – 2:45
3. "The Wah-Watusi" (Dave Appell, Kal Mann) – 2:38
4. "The Twist" (Hank Ballard) – 2:29
5. "Dancin' Holiday" (Diane Rogers, Fred Smith, Zelda Samuels) – 2:14
6. "Land of a Thousand Dances" (Chris Kenner) – 2:26

Side two

1. "
   I Gotta Dance to Keep From Crying
   " (Holland-Dozier-Holland) – 2:39
2. "The Monkey Time" (Curtis Mayfield) – 2:51
3. "The Groovey Thing" (Smokey Robinson) – 2:43
4. "
   Bert Russell
   ) – 2:03
5. "
   Berry Gordy, Jr.
   ) – 2:39

Personnel

The Miracles

• 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

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