The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage

The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage

Infobox Single
Name = The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage
Artist = Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
from Album = Make It Happen


B-side = "Come Spy with Me"
Released = January 27 1967
Recorded = Hitsville USA (Studio A): 1966
Format = 7" single
Genre = Soul/pop
Length = 2:59
Label = Tamla
T 54145
Writer = Smokey Robinson
Marvin Tarplin
Producer = Smokey Robinson
Last single = "(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need"
(1966)
This single = "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage"
(1967)
Next single = "More Love"
(1967)

"The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" is a 1967 song recorded by American R&B group The Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label. Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Marv Tarplin and produced by Robinson, it is noted for being the first single to bill the group as "Smokey Robinson & the Miracles", [Asanovic, Bosko; Rimmer, Dave & Goldberg, Marv. " [http://www.soulfulkindamusic.net/miracles.htm Miracles discography] ". "Soulful Kinda Music." Retrieved 2008-03-30] a billing already present on the group's albums by this time.

The single was a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and a Top 10 hit on "Billboard's" R&B singles chart. Hackel, Stu (1997). "Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: The Ultimate Collection" [Liner Notes] . New York: Motown Records/Polygram.] As with several Miracles hits, "Mirage" begins with Tarplin's guitar. The song's lyrics feature Robinson's character as a man deceived by the beauty of a woman who showed "the promise of love", but then sadly discovered that her love was "just a mirage".

The Jackson 5, Vance Gilbert, and The Uniques are among the acts who have recorded cover versions of "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage". The original 45 RPM single featured "Come Spy with Me", (the original theme song to the 1967 20th Century Fox film of the same name), as the b-side.

Credits

*Lead vocals by Smokey Robinson
*Background vocals by Claudette Rogers Robinson, Pete Moore, Ronnie White, and Bobby Rogers.
*Guitar by Marv Tarplin
*Other instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

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