The Fabulous Miracles
The Fabulous Miracles is a 1963 album by The Miracles featuring the million-selling "Grammy Hall of Fame" hit, "You've Really Got a Hold on Me", one of the group's most popular singles. It also features the chart hits "A Love She Can Count On" and "I've Been Good To You", which The Beatles' John Lennon has identified as his favorite Miracles song. Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson was the principal writer on all tracks, while Miracles members Ronnie White and Bobby Rogers co-wrote with him on several of the album's songs . Although two of the album’s songs, “Won’t You Take Me Back” and “Your Love”, were taken from their debut album "Hi... We're the Miracles," all eight new songs were released as either singles or b-sides. The album also features "I Can Take a Hint", which charted on the "Billboard" pop & R&B listings after being issued as the B-side of "A Love She Can Count On". "Happy Landing", the flip side of "You Really Got a Hold On Me" which, while never charting nationally, did become a hit on several regional charts, and was performed by  the group on their first live album, "The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage". It was also the original "A" side of “You've Really Got A Hold On Me”, but fell into undeserved obscurity as the nation's Dee Jays discovered and played the record's more successful flip side, relegating "Happy Landing" to "B" side status. "The Fabulous Miracles" is only one of three classic Miracles albums to feature Miracles guitarist and original group member Marv Tarplin on its cover. The Miracles' bass singer Pete Moore is not featured on the album or the cover, as he was serving  in the U.S. Armed Services and was stationed in Germany at the time this album was recorded (Moore "is" shown in a separate photograph on the back cover). While Tarplin remained a member of the Miracles through 1973, he was not featured on any more of the group's classic album covers, except for 1961's "Cookin' with The Miracles", 1962's "I'll Try Something New", and this album. Tarplin does, however, appear on the cover of the group's 2009 Motown CD release, ""."" Track listing. Side one: Side two: