Vinyl Album - Smokey Robinson And The Miracles - Special Occasion - Tamla

Vinyl Album

Artist:	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles
Title:	Special Occasion
Label:	Tamla
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	T 290 / TM 290
Date:	Aug 1968
Format:	Mono LP (also Stereo LP)
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	3 Own
Price Guide:	Valuation Page
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Yester Love	Robinson, Cleveland	Rate
A2	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	If You Can Want	Wm. Robinson	Rate
A3	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Special Occasion	Robinson, Cleveland	Rate
A4	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Everybody Needs Love	Whitfield, Holland	Rate
A5	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Just Losing You	Wm. Robinson	Rate
A6	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Give Her Up	Wm. Robinson	Rate
B1	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	I Heard It Through The Grapevine	Whitfield, Strong	Rate
B2	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Yesterday	J. Lennon, P. McCartney	Rate
B3	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Your Mother's Only Daughter	Robinson, Cleveland	Rate
B4	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Much Better Off	Robinson, Moore	Rate
B5	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	You Only Build Me Up To Tear Me Down	Wm. Robinson	Rate

Notes

Produced by: Smokey
Photos By/Motown GA - P. Bass
This record was also released in STEREO with Cat# TS290

a) H-1536-2 / W4RM-5212
b) H-1537-2 / W4RM-5213

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Number: 807986

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Comments and Reviews


Vinyl Fan-45worlds 29th Jul 2015		Added cover scans fmc.



W.B.lbl ● 29th Jul 2015		@Vinyl Fan: Don't be ashamed. The label fonts (12 and 14 point Erbar Bold Condensed and 6 point Spartan Heavy Condensed) alone are worth having this - certainly I'd've had it if I'd seen it. But their pressings of Motown and sublabel product still used lacquers from RCA's Chicago studios, with the RCA Custom numbers stamped onto the deadwax, so it's nothing to sneeze at. (I've a few such Supremes LP's that were CRC-oriented pressings, thus I can attest.) Also, except for a brief period in 1967 when one or more of RCA's pressing plants were on strike, Columbia didn't press any stock product (LP or 45) for Motown and its sublabels at all between mid-1965 and Fall 1970; all Columbia pressings within that period (even 45's, in the 1966-67 period) were for the record club and its customers. Evidently, at the time the Columbia plants didn't get the newer Tamla label design, hence their using an "outdated" label. But then some plants used "outdated" 45 label designs for Tamla and Gordy, which is why you occasionally see old "It's What's In The Grooves That Counts" logohead labels on some pressings of The Temptations' ground-breaking "Cloud Nine" single, and even "globes" labels for Marvin Gaye's monster "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" 45.



Record Collector-45worlds 29th Jul 2015		B1 Classic



Neil Forbes-45worlds 29th Jul 2015		This is a 1968 release, so why are they using a label design for Tamla that had been superseded two years earlier?



Vinyl Fan-45worlds 28th Jul 2015		So this is a record club issue? I hate those things damn! I wish I had known this was a CRC copy, I would not have bought it.



W.B.lbl ● 28th Jul 2015		Wonder what the RCA Custom mono W4RM matrix numbers would be. But it's interesting that Columbia Pitman (whose type is seen here) would have put out a mono copy (all only for Columbia Record Club customers).



Vinyl Fan-45worlds 28th Jul 2015		Record and label images added fmc.

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Linked Releases

Canada - Tamla Motown - 1968

USA - Tamla - 1968 [Stereo]

UK - Tamla Motown - 1969 [Mono]

UK - Tamla Motown - 1969 [Stereo]