Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, v./Smokey: "Ooo, Baby Baby" (1965)

adapted from box set liner notes:
No other performer is as synonymous with MOTOWN as William "Smokey" Robinson. It was Robinson who urged his friend, Berry Gordy Jr. to form the label during the late '50s. It was Robinson who gave the company its first million seller, "Shop Around" in 1961 and the MOTOWN label its first #1 hit, "My Guy", which he wrote in 1964 for Mary Wells.


PERSONNEL: William "Smokey" Robinson (composer, producer, lead vocal); Pete Moore (composer, vocal arrangements, backing vocal); Claudette Rogers Robinson (backing vocal); Ronnie White (backing vocal); Bobby Rogers (backing vocal); Marv Tarplin (guitar);
plus Detroit Symphony Orchestra strings; The Funk Brothers (other instruments, featuring Jack Ashford's vibraphone)

Recorded Feb. 1, 1965 and released March 5
on vinyl TAMLA 45 #54113 (DM WLL-118302)

Reissued 1992 on 4-disc MOTOWN Records various artists longbox #3746363122,
"HITSVILLE USA The Motown Singles Collection 1959 1971"