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''One Dozen Roses'' is a 1971 album by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, issued on
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' Tamla label. The penultimate album before lead singer Smokey Robinson departed the group for a solo career, ''One Dozen Roses'' features the Top 20 ''Billboard'' Hot 100 hit single " I Don't Blame You at All". Also included is the group's number-one smash hit " The Tears of a Clown", which was also made available through the reissue of the 1967 Miracles LP '' Make It Happen'' as ''The Tears of a Clown''. Both of these songs were also huge hits in the UK, reaching #11 and #1 respectively. The album's cover depicts Robinson, (with fellow Miracles Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore, and Ronnie White), picking a solitary rose for his wife, Miracles member Claudette Robinson, who is pictured on the cover holding the rose given her by her husband. Other tracks on ''One Dozen Roses'' include the charting singles "Satisfaction" and "Crazy About The La La La", both of which peaked below number 40 on the Hot 100, the ballad "That Girl", which served as the "b" side to ''I Don't Blame You at All'', "When Sundown Comes", which was actually earmarked as a single "A" side release (but was withdrawn in favor of "Satisfaction",Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: The 35th Anniversary Collection- The Miracles' discography,liner notes pg 62 the topical spoken word song "No Wonder Love's a Wonder", and The Miracles' own cover of
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' Top 20 Robinson-composed hit, " The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game".
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bass singer Renaldo "Obie" Benson is a contributing co-writer on the song, "Oh Baby Baby I Love You," and Miracle Marv Tarplin co-wrote with Robinson on two songs. The album cover features Miracles background vocalist Claudette Rogers Robinson, wife of Smokey Robinson. This was the first Miracles album to feature her on the cover since 1963's '' The Fabulous Miracles'' (and the group's aborted 1964 album '' I Like It Like That''). As of 2019, this album has not been released on CD.


Track listing

Side one #"When Sundown Comes" ( Smokey Robinson, Marv Tarplin) #"No Wonder Love's a Wonder" (Robinson, Tarplin, Al Cleveland) #" The Tears of a Clown" (Robinson, Hank Cosby,
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) #"Satisfaction" (Robinson) #"Crazy About The La La La" (Robinson) #"
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) Side two #" I Don't Blame You at All" (Robinson) #"That Girl" ( Joe Hinton, Cosby, Candice Ghant) #"Faces" (Jack Goga) #"I Love You Dear" (Clay McMurray, John Glover, Pam Sawyer) #"Oh Baby Baby I Love You" (Robinson, Cleveland, Obie Benson) #" The Hunter Gets Captured by the Game" (Robinson)


Personnel

The Miracles * Smokey Robinson – lead vocals, producer * Marv Tarplin – guitar * Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers, Warren "Pete" Moore, Claudette Robinson – backing vocals Additional musicians and production * Henry Cosby – producer *
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– instrumentation


References


External links


The Miracles' ''One Dozen Roses'' (1971) from the ''Soul and Funk Music'' website
{{Authority control 1971 albums The Miracles albums Tamla Records albums Albums produced by Smokey Robinson Albums produced by Henry Cosby Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A.