- r&b, soul
- 32 min
- 11 tracks
- Tamla
Special Occasion is an album by the American group Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, released in 1968 by Tamla Motown. It contains three Top 40 hits: "If You Can Want", "Yester Love", and "Special Occasion".
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Spare, classical in form, grave and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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Tracks
- 1Yester Love2:21
- 2If You Can Want2:46
- 3Special Occasion2:24
- 4Everybody Needs Love3:10
- 5Just Losing You2:56
- 6Give Her Up3:13
- 7I Heard It Through the Grapevine3:03
- 8Yesterday3:40
- 9Your Mother’s Only Daughter2:27
- 10Much Better Off2:52
- 11You Only Build Me Up to Tear Me Down3:26
11 tracks, 32 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- Tamla
- Released
- 1968-08
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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