Excited, and afraid to wait until morning in case he lost the idea again, he got Smokey on the phone and demanded he get out of bed and round up the Miracles.
by three o'clock that morning, Gordy and the group were in the studio, working on a new, faster, tighter version of Shop Around which would go on to sell over a million copies.
This third version, which later featured on the first Miracles album Hi, We're The Miracles in June 1961, is undeniably the best of the three versions.
Unlike previous Motown re recordings which had produced ambiguous results, the new Shop Around is twice the record its predecessors were.
Smokey gives the song a more confident, more controlled pop lead vocal delivery, which suits the tune markedly better than the raw throated attack he employed on the original take.
cheap valentino shpe LikeLike Reply Damecia said: April 1, 2012 at 12:08 am Okay, now we're talking.
So far this is the best released Motown single of 1960 and is the best song, besides "Money" that had been released at this point IMO.
The tempo is just right, the lyrics are fun and true (lol) and all of the Miracles including Smokey are believable and offer the right kind of energy that this song needed.
Using Nixon's rating system I would give this song a 10.
LikeLike Reply Robb Klein said: November 19, 2012 at 5:24 am I also like the alternate version (tested only in Detroit), which has the twangy guitar break in the middle.
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' But as for Smokey, yes, his lyricism is first and foremost.
my favourite Smokey song (my favourite Motown song, perhaps.
) is Ooo Baby Baby, where the rhymes though lovely take a back seat to sheer poignant heart breaking beauty.
By the way, my heartiest congratulations on your becoming a father.
LikeLike Reply Steve R said: November 20, 2012 at 4:27 pm Try You Tube or Rdio LikeLike Reply Robb Klein said: November 20, 2012 at 4:58 pm I couldn't find that particular mix on You Tube.
I did find this alternate version: s NOT the version with the twangy guitar break, that came out on striped Tamla 45 only in Detroit in late 1960, BEFORE the national version was released.
LikeLike Reply Robb Klein said: November 20, 2012 at 5:11 pm The You Tube poster says there were 2 versions recorded.
Unfortunately, I cant find the latter on You Tube.
LikeLike Reply Damecia said: November 20, 2012 at 6:38 pm Thanx Robb.
Anyway, I never found her version too convincing (especially the transposition of "young man" to "young girl", rather than "young woman").
I didn't savage it, because it's great fun, in its third iteration at least.
I like the smirk in his voice, and the idea that he's not actually going to act on his mother's advice, instead just telling us a funny story about something he was once told.
It's just never struck as much of a chord as most of the Miracles' other "monument" singles.
is something that always comes to mind whenever Smokey gets up to his best high speed internal rhyming.
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LikeLike Reply Damecia said: April 1, 2012 at 12:13 am I just heard Debbie Dean's "Don't Let Him Shop Around" and it was a cool answer song.
LikeLike Reply John Plant said: December 1, 2010 at 10:46 pm Ramble on.
And I will check out the Noel Coward song.
My mind is also drawn to G & S for example, in The Mikado, where Pooh Bah manages to rhyme ‘.
Lord High Executioner' with ‘.
cheap valentino shpe ) I like Smokey's rhymes, very much, but that's not why I love his writing.
I admire him most as a writer for his storylines, his imagery, his economy of phrase.
the rhymes for me are a delightful bonus, a confirmation he knew his stuff rather than the stuff in itself.
That's just me, though, and I'm aware I'm in a minority.
I'm also rambling a little, I hope I'm coming across clearly.
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,There is a SHORT one second pause leading to "And then she said".
The A2 begins with a HORN LEAD in before the spoken word verse "When I became of age.
(the word age IS NOT DRAWN OUT AS IN THE A1).
" In the A2 there is a long pause after the verse ending with "take a bride".
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