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:	S 290 / TS 290
Date:	26 Aug 1968
Format:	Stereo LP (also Mono LP)
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	12 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A1	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	I Heard It Through The Grapevine	Whitfield, Strong	Rate
A2	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Yesterday	J. Lennon, P. McCartney	Rate
A3	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Your Mother's Only Daughter	Robinson, Cleveland	Rate
A4	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Much Better Off	Robinson, Moore	Rate
A5	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	You Only Build Me Up To Tear Me Down	Wm. Robinson	Rate
B1	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Yester Love	Robinson, Cleveland	Rate
B2	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	If You Can Want	Wm. Robinson	Rate
B3	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Special Occasion	Robinson, Cleveland	Rate
B4	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Everybody Needs Love	Whitfield, Holland	Rate
B5	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Just Losing You	Wm. Stevenson	Rate
B6	Smokey Robinson And The Miracles	Give Her Up	Wm. Robinson	Rate

Notes

a) HS-1536-3 / W4RS-5200.
b) HS-1537-3 / W4RS-5201.

First issued with yellow dual globe labels.
"S 290" / "TS 290" on labels, "TS290" on sleeve.
Tracklist on back sleeve lists side 1 tracks as side 2.

Soon after the album was released a second cover was produced. The new version carried the same group photograph on the front, but enlarged to twice the size of the original and some other minor graphic adjustments. These were an increase in font size of the album title and a change in colour from red to purple of "Special Occasion" and the tracks highlighted beneath the photograph. The Tamla Box logo and album catalogue number were moved from beneath the "Stereo" on the top left to the top right The catalogue no. TS290 was repeated immediately below "Stereo" so that it now appears twice on the front cover.

The rear cover is unchanged and credits the black and white photographs of the individual members of The Miracles as by Motown GA - P. Bass.
The record sleeve was filed for copyright on August 23, 1968.

No production credits appear on the cover, but the Stereo Commercial labels credit the production to "Smokey".

This may have been the last Tamla album to have had a commercial yellow label Monaural release (TM-290), as well as a white label DJ version.

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Comments and Reviews


edlongus SUBS 7th Dec 2024		Label variant scans added. Only 1 line of text over 'STEREO'. Also, the W4RS-5200 / W4RS-5201 numbers seem 2 be in reverse on the labels but are correct in the dead wax.



RecordDragon 1st Aug 2016		Track B4 Entire LP can be heard here



W.B.lbl 2nd Aug 2015		Er . . . {Images #810788 & 810789} was actually a Columbia, likely pressed in Terre Haute, IN but with Pitman, NJ typesetting. And for my purposes, that's a very good thing, as this like regular copies with the newer label design has RCA-cut lacquers.



Vinyl Fan 1st Aug 2015		Added globe label images from RCA Hollywood Plant fmc.



W.B.lbl 7th Apr 2015		Not all pressings had the RCA matrix number order inversion as on the Rockaway, NJ-pressed {Images #714450 & 714451}; RCA's Hollywood plant, or more accurately the Bert-Co printing concern, got the order correct (W4RS-5200 on Side 1, W4RS-5201 on Side 2); as did the Indianapolis, IN plant.



cussincarryinon02 3rd Apr 2015		Front cover scans 1st and 2nd version and label scans added.



Motownjohnny 3rd Apr 2015		(Info moved to notes / mod edit). Both my Stereo releases have the Tamla "Two Globes" logo label and have the RCA Matrix nos. incorrectly printed on both sides of the labels: Side 1: W4RS- 5201, but with W4RS-5200 stamped in the vinyl run-out and Side 2: W4RS-5200 with W4RS-5201 stamped in the vinyl run-out

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Linked Releases

USA - Tamla - 1968 [Mono]

Canada - Tamla Motown - 1968

UK - Tamla Motown - 1969 [Mono]

UK - Tamla Motown - 1969 [Stereo]