The Miracles-Four Classic Albums on 2CDs [4/19/2024-Cherry Red UK]

[Motown Eddie]

Info from Cherry Red UK-

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: What Love Has Joined Together/A Pocket Full of Miracles/One Dozen Roses/Flying High Together, 2CD

Definitive 2CD remastered edition from SoulMusic Records/The Second Disc comprising four rare 1970-1972 albums and bonus tracks from Motown legends Smokey Robinson And The Miracles!
Two bonus tracks, ‘[You’ve Got Me] Looking Through the Eyes of Love’ and ‘Paper People’ also make their CD debut.


DISC ONE
WHAT LOVE HAS JOINED TOGETHER [Expanded Edition]
A POCKET FULL OF MIRACLES
1 What Love Has Joined Together
2 My Cherie Amour
3 If This World Were Mine
4 You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
5 This Guy’s In Love With You
6 And I Love Her
7 [You’ve Got Me] Looking Through The Eyes Of Love
8 Paper People
9 Flower Girl
10 Who’s Gonna Take The Blame
11 Darling Dear
12 You’ve Got The Love I Need
13 Get Ready
14 Bridge Over Troubled Water
15 Something/Something You Got
16 Point It Out
17 Don’t Take It So Hard
18 Backfire
19 The Reel Of Time
20 Wishful Thinking
DISC TWO
ONE DOZEN ROSES/ FLYING HIGH TOGETHER
1 When Sundown Comes
2 No Wonder Love’s A Wonder
3 The Tears Of A Clown
4 Satisfaction
5 Crazy About The La La La
6 Cecilia
7 I Don’t Blame You At All
8 That Girl
9 Faces
10 I Love You Dear
11 Oh Baby Baby I Love You
12 The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
13 I Can’t Stand To See You Cry
14 Theme From Love Story
15 We’ve Come Too Far To End It Now
16 Flying High Together
17 With Your Love Came
18 It Will Be Alright
19 Oh Girl [Album Version]
20 You Ain’t Livin’ Till You’re Lovin’



Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: What Love Has Joined Together/A Pocket Full of Miracles/One Dozen Roses/Flying High Together, 2CD - Cherry Red Records

[woodward]

It totally baffles me why a company like Cherryred.co.uk is able to release a CD such as this.

Here is the $64,000 question of the past several years. Why oh why can't Cherryred get approval to release the Supremes Expanded Edition that we have been waiting for forever and it appears that it will never be released. Why can't Cherryred accomplish this?

[reese]

It is great that this set is coming out. I ignored Miracles cds when Motown released them in the 90s and when I got around to wanting some, the prices on eBay were ridiculous.

[blkfrost]

This is great news. I purchased the last three albums from iTunes several years ago, but I would like to have the physical format in my collection. Also, I find that I enjoy listening to music in physical formats than on my digital device [[iPhone).

[SatansBlues]

Have all of Smokey R & The Miracles albums now made it onto CD with this release?

[Motown Eddie]

Have all of Smokey R & The Miracles albums now made it onto CD with this release?

Yes; all of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles albums will have been released on CD with release of this set. In fact, this collection is the first time that these albums are making it to CD [except for What Love Has Joined Together which been had released on CD in the early '90s].

[carlo]

Great news! Looking forward to this.

[grapevine]

...mine arrived today ...can't wait to play...! 👍🏻

Grape

[mysterysinger]

Well what a turn up for the books - and very welcome at that. Some cracking songs included [[and some mundane?) but this will be a must for me. Hope it sells well - quite often these things get sold out and then the price gougers step in. Great news for a Friday.

[kenneth]

What fantastic news! I think Smokey’s songwriting and vocals were at their peak during their last years together as a group. And the prices on “What Love Has” from its long ago CD release are ridiculous! Can’t wait to hear all these again! I love Cherry Red releases.

[Philles/Motown Gary]

Oh goodie! I already have "What Love Has Joined Together" on CD. The other 3, I bought as downloads and burnt them to CD. Now I get to buy them all over again.

[nabob]

Does anyone have an idea of shipping charges to the US from the UK? A friend sent a book from Germany last year that cost 47 Euros to ship and then sat in US customs at JFK for four weeks. Maybe the package will become available through US Amazon.

[Motown Eddie]

Does anyone have an idea of shipping charges to the US from the UK? A friend sent a book from Germany last year that cost 47 Euros to ship and then sat in US customs at JFK for four weeks. Maybe the package will become available through US Amazon.

Cherry Red makes all of their releases available through Amazon.com and other music vendors in the USA so there's no need to order from them directly. Amazon should be posting pre-orders for this collection in the coming weeks.

[tjl]

I'm still waiting for the yet to be released "Greatest Hits From The Beginning" stereo and mono versions!

[kenneth]

I'm still waiting for the yet to be released "Greatest Hits From The Beginning" stereo and mono versions!

I know most of Motown is true stereo, but I thought I had read that this album had some fake stereo cuts on it. I haven’t played them side-by-side to compare them. Do you happen to know?


I believe I read that in the liner notes for their lost and found disc, I forget the name of it at the moment. I know it included several of the tracks from the “from the beginning“ album which had become hard to find.

[kenneth]

Does anyone have an idea of shipping charges to the US from the UK? A friend sent a book from Germany last year that cost 47 Euros to ship and then sat in US customs at JFK for four weeks. Maybe the package will become available through US Amazon.

Rarewaves-US often offers free shipping to the US but their Record is spotty and I’ve had bad experiences with their packages going missing. They also don’t give any refund or a replacement for anything if things get lost or misdirected, as does Zoverstocks which to me is a much more reliable seller Who has quickly sent a replacement disk for anything which was lost on route to me in the past. But as someone else reported, you should be able to buy this set directly in the US.

[Stax_of_Motown]

Great News. Always yearned for "Pocketful..." on CD. Great price £14.99 and my being in UK, no extortionate postage /tax/duty to make it unaffordable.

[carlo]

Kenneth, I'm surprised to read that you've had bad experiences with Rarewaves. I've ordered from them a handful of times and haven't had any issues. In the future, I would recommend paying PayPal, as you can easily file a claim and get your money back, if something goes missing/undelivered. ImportCDs.com is another great merchant that I have used a lot over the years.

[grapevine]

...unless I'm mistaken ...they've missed 3 tracks off the Flying High Together album:

Betcha By Golly, Wow

Got To Be There

We Had A Love So Strong https://www.discogs.com/release/2331...-High-Together Grape

[carlo]

Good eye, Grape. It certainly does appear that those tracks are missing. I will check with Cherry Red to see if this is indeed the case.

[mysterysinger]

CLUNK! Down to earth with a bump!

[carlo]

Cherry Red got back to me very quickly and confirmed that those 3 tracks will be included on this release and they were an accidental omission from the tracklisting that was published on their website. They are going to make the update shortly. Thanks for pointing that out, Grape!

[Motown Eddie]

Cherry Red got back to me very quickly and confirmed that those 3 tracks will be included on this release and they were an accidental omission from the tracklisting that was published on their website. They are going to make the update shortly. Thanks for pointing that out, Grape!

Just checked with the Cherry Red site and they've already made the corrections to the trackisting. Thanks to Grape & Carlo.

[pj1]

Just checked with the Cherry Red site and they've already made the corrections to the trackisting. Thanks to Grape & Carlo.

They made the correction in the description tab but the tracklisting tab still does not include the full listing. Rather than yet another person contacting them, would Carlo be willing to alert them about the 3rd tab?

[mysterysinger]

Phew, as you were Corporal Jones.

[carlo]

I've let them know, PJ...thanks!

[Motown Eddie]

I've let them know, PJ...thanks!

And while we're at it, there's another error in the tracklisting for The Miracles Collection. For Disc One they have track #18 listed as "Backfire The Reel Of Time" however "Backfire" & "The Reel Of Time" are two different songs. Cherry Red should correct that on their site as well.

[carlo]

And while we're at it, there's another error in the tracklisting for The Miracles Collection. For Disc One they have track #18 listed as "Backfire The Reel Of Time" however "Backfire" & "The Reel Of Time" are two different songs. Cherry Red should correct that on their site as well.

Gosh, time for Cherry Red to add us to their payroll

[kenneth]

Gosh, time for Cherry Red to add us to their payroll

One of you could be the next Billie Jean Brown!

[tjl]

Is "Happy Landing" in stereo somewhere? I should know - but drawing a blank this morning....

[kenneth]

I've let them know, PJ...thanks!

They better know who they’re dealing with!


Thanks as well for the other information Carlo!

[grapevine]

...many thanks Carlo for sorting it out...!

Grape

[Starguard4]

Does anyone know if this is still on track for release April 19 ?

[Motown Eddie]

Does anyone know if this is still on track for release April 19 ?

According to the Cherry Red website, The Miracles Collection is still on track to be released on April 19th. Also both Amazon USA & Amazon UK have the set being released on April 19th as well.

Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - A Pocket Full Of Miracles / One Dozen Roses / Flying High Together / What Love Has Joined Together - Amazon.com Music

A POCKET FULL OF MIRACLES/ONE DOZEN ROSES/FLYING HIGH TOGETHER/WHAT LOVE HAS JOINED TOGETHER: Amazon.co.uk: CDs & Vinyl

[Motown Eddie]

And here's an article about the upcoming Miracles Collection from Adam White's West Grand Blog.

A Return Flight, with Love and Roses — Adam White [adampwhite.com].

[Philles/Motown Gary]

I just received a message from Amazon, notifying me that delivery of the new Smokey Robinson & The Miracles CD 4-fer has been postponed until Monday, April 29. Drat the luck!

[Motown Eddie]

I just received a message from Amazon, notifying me that delivery of the new Smokey Robinson & The Miracles CD 4-fer has been postponed until Monday, April 29. Drat the luck!

Same thing here. Oh well, I can wait. Also Amazon.com [US] is now showing that the collection is "temporarily out of stock". At least that shows this set is In Demand.

[Philles/Motown Gary]

Same thing here. Oh well, I can wait. Also Amazon.com [US] is now showing that the collection is "temporarily out of stock". At least that shows this set is In Demand.

That's weird, as I pre-ordered my copy way back when the option to pre-order became available. How could they have since sold out before delivering my pre-ordered copy? [[And same with your pre-ordered copy, Eddie.)

[Motown Eddie]

That's weird, as I pre-ordered my copy way back when the option to pre-order became available. How could they have since sold out before delivering my pre-ordered copy? [[And same with your pre-ordered copy, Eddie.)

I think it means that Amazon didn't have that many copies of the set in stock thinking that it wouldn't sell that well. Anyway, I got an e-mail from them saying that my copy has shipped [and should be here by the 26th]. Hope they come through with your copy before the end of the month.

[Philles/Motown Gary]

I think it means that Amazon didn't have that many copies of the set in stock thinking that it wouldn't sell that well. Anyway, I got an e-mail from them saying that my copy has shipped [and should be here by the 26th]. Hope they come through with your copy before the end of the month.

Thanks, Eddie. I just got a message from. Amazon. My copy has shipped and will arrive Monday via Amazon delivery. Here's hoping your copy will arrive soon as well.

[johnjeb]

I received my CD on Wednesday the 17th from Soul Music Records & Second Disc.

[Philles/Motown Gary]

I received my CD on Wednesday the 17th from Soul Music Records & Second Disc.

Really? Wow! It must be strictly an Amazon thing. Well, glad to hear you got your copy, as scheduled. How is it? Are you pleased with the sound quality and presentation?

[blkfrost]

I preordered through Dusty Grove and received my copy early last week. Have not had the chance to play it yet.

[copley]

'temporarily out of stock' usually means that they never had any in stock in the first place!

[Philles/Motown Gary]

'temporarily out of stock' usually means that they never had any in stock in the first place!

Yeah, I believe you're right, Copley. It's been so long since we've had any Motown-related product to pre-order, I guess I forgot how it works!

[BritishTony]

Mine arrived last week. Inevitably out of 43 tracks some, particularly non-Motown covers, are not to my taste but on the whole I’m delighted. Some very creative reinventions such as Hunter & Livin’ Till You’re Lovin’ + reminders of shimmering half-forgotten gems eg Who’s Gonna Take The Blame, Don’t Blame You At All. All without vinyl crackle & hiss, Smokey soars over his group’s flawless harmonies on crystal clear CD. Eternal thanks to SoulMusic + Second Disc. Keep ‘em comings guys – we’ll keep buying.

[Philles/Motown Gary]

Currently listening to my new CD copy of SoulMusic Records' presentation of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles' new 4-fer, 2-CD set of "What Love Has Joined Together", "A Pocketful Of Miracles", "One Dozen Roses", and "Flying High Together". I've gotta say, SoulMusic Records did an impressive job, as always. I'm listening through headphones, and the sound quality is outstanding. I take back my previous gripe that I had already invested money on the download versions of these albums which I then burned to CD, and would now have to reinvest in the CD version. One listen to the new SoulMusic CD reissue more than makes up for any duplication. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles final 4 Motown albums have never sounded so good! Now I'm wondering what SoulMusic's next Motown surprise CD will be. With any luck, the 4 remaining Motown albums by The Originals? Got my fingers crossed tight!

[Starguard4]

Soulmusic.com seriously need to get some of their CDs back into stock, particularly on Willie Hutch, Dynamic Superiors, Syreeta, G.C. Cameron and I'm sure others as well. Got my fingers crossed for this, before any new releases.

[snakepit]

Originals for me..please

[mysterysinger]

Originals for me..please

Must be next.