Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | ||||
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Greatest hits album by | ||||
Released | January 26, 1968 | |||
Recorded | 1965–1967 | |||
Genre | Soul | |||
Length | 32:30 | |||
Label | Tamla | |||
Producer |
Smokey Robinson Brian Holland Lamont Dozier Frank Wilson | |||
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles chronology | ||||
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Singles from Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 | ||||
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Allmusic | link |
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 is the second greatest hits album for The Miracles (a.k.a. Smokey Robinson & the Miracles), released in 1968 on Motown Records' Tamla label. It contained the most popular singles from the successful Going to a Go-Go, Away We A Go-Go and Make It Happen albums of the 1965–1967 period. It also featured the 1964 non-album single " Come On Do The Jerk", and two B-sides, " Choosey Beggar" and "Save Me". The hit single " I Second That Emotion" was new to the album. This album reached the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, peaking at #7, and peaked at #2 on Billboard's R&B album chart. [1] Ten of the albums' 12 songs were written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Pete Moore, Marv Tarplin, Bobby Rogers, and Ronnie White.
Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 was voted the 166th best album of all time in Paul Gambaccini's 1978 poll of 50 prominent American and English rock critics. [2] The album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). [3]