Make It Happen (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles album)
# Make It Happen (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles album)

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Make It Happen is a 1967 album by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. It featured ballads such as the hit singles "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" and "More Love", as well as the up-tempo "The Tears of a Clown" co-written by Stevie Wonder and his producer Hank Cosby.

Three years after the album's release, "The Tears of a Clown" was issued as a single, and charted at #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart. As a result, Make It Happen was reissued as The Tears of a Clown in 1970.

Stevie Wonder was a contributing writer on three of the album's songs, the aforementioned "The Tears of a Clown", "After You Put Back the Pieces (I'll Still Have a Broken Heart)", and "My Love Is Your Love (Forever)". Holland-Dozier-Holland contributed the good-times dance song "It's a Good Feeling". Smokey's fellow Miracles Warren "Pete" Moore and Marv Tarplin collaborated with him on the songs "You Must Be Love" (a popular regional hit tune), and "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" (a Top 20 Hit) respectively, and all of The Miracles (except Claudette) co-wrote the up-tempo rocker "Dancing's Alright". The album also features a rendition of Little Anthony & The Imperials' 1964 Top 20 smash, "I'm on the Outside (Looking In)" "The Tears of a Clown" on the monaural version of the album has an alternate lead vocal.

Critics at Allmusic praised the album, giving it 4-1/2 out of five stars, calling it "The most underrated Miracles LP of the '60s", and stating that, in addition to the album's three hits, it also had "featured a spate of [other] great songs, including three or four that really should've been hits".

## Track listing

### Side one

* "The Soulful Shack" (Smokey Robinson)
* "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" (Robinson, Marvin Tarplin)
* "My Love for You" (Clarence Paul, Morris Broadnax)
* "I'm on the Outside (Looking In)" (Bobby Weinstein, Teddy Randazzo)
* "Don't Think It's Me" (Robinson)
* "My Love Is Your Love (Forever)" (Ivy Jo Hunter, Stevie Wonder)

### Side two

* "More Love" (Robinson)
* "After You Put Back the Pieces (I'll Still Have a Broken Heart)" (Paul, Broadnax, Wonder)
* "It's a Good Feeling" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
* "You Must Be Love" (Robinson, Warren Moore)
* "Dancing's Alright" (Robinson, Tarplin, Moore, Robert Rogers, Ronald White)
* "The Tears of a Clown" (Robinson, Wonder, Henry Cosby)

## Personnel

### The Miracles

* Smokey Robinson – lead vocals, producer, album executive producer
* Ronnie White – backing vocals
* Bobby Rogers – backing vocals
* Warren "Pete" Moore – backing vocals
* Claudette Robinson – backing vocals
* Marv Tarplin – producer, guitar

### Other instruments

* The Funk Brothers and various Los Angeles session musicians: instrumentation
* The Andantes – additional backing vocals on "It's a Good Feeling"

### Producers

* Brian Holland – producer
* Lamont Dozier – producer
* Henry Cosby – producer
