Make It Happen (Miracles album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Make It Happen/The Tears of a Clown
Type = Album
Artist = Smokey Robinson & the Miracles


Released = August 1967
Recorded = 1966-1967
Genre = Soul
Length = 33:13
Label = Tamla
TS-276
Producer = Smokey Robinson
Henry Cosby
Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:xtv8b5f4tsqa link]
Last album = "Away We A Go-Go"
(1966)
This album = "Make It Happen"
(1967)
Next album = "Greatest Hits, Vol. 2"
(1968)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Cover for 1970 reissue
Type = album


Lower caption = 1970 reissue cover for "Make It Happen", retitled as "The Tears of a Clown" after the success of the hit single of the same name.

"Make It Happen" is a 1967 album by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles. It featured ballads such as the 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 number-one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the UK Singles Chart. As a result, "Make It Happen" was reissued as "The Tears of a Clown" in 1970.

Track listing

ide 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)" (Bob Weinstein, Teddy Randazzo)
#"Don't Think It's Me" (Robinson)
#"My Love Is Your Love (Forever)" (Ivy Jo Hunter, Stevie Wonder)

ide 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
* Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers, Warren "Pete" Moore, Claudette Robinson: background vocals
* Marv Tarplin: guitarist

Other Instruments

* The Funk Brothers and various Los Angeles session musicians: instrumentation

Producers

* Smokey Robinson, producer, Album executive producer
* Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier, producer
* Henry Cosby, producer