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Pure Smokey

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I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO GET THIS CD AND SMOKEY'S FIRST SOLO RECORDING CD (SMOKEY) A FEW YEARS AGO & I PROTECT & CHERISH THEM & INSURE THEM AS PART OF MY PRIZED MUSICAL POSSESIONS EVERY TRACK IS COLD BLOODED!!! OLD SCHOOL & FOR CONNOISUIERS OF FINE MUSIC LIKE MYSELF I PLAY THE ENTIRE CD FROM START TO FINISH. I RECOMMEND THIS CD BE APART OF EVERY OLD SCHOOL LOVERS MUSIC COLLECTION.. THANK THE LORD FOR GIVING ME THE EARS TO HEAR SUCH SWEET MUSIC & APPRECIATE A WONDERFUL TALENT LIKE SMOKEY...

One of the many rare albums from Smokey Robinson, which includes the hits I AM I AM and VIRGIN MAN. Songs 2-4 are fused together ala the QUIET STORM CD. Smokey at one of his finest...very underrated release! SHE'S ONLY A BABY HERSELF is another highlight...to the point and just as relevant subject matter by today's standards as it was in 1974 when it was first released! I hope that Motown adds more reissues from Smokey soon!

Track Listing:

1. It's Her Turn To Live

2. The Love Between Me And My Kids

3. Asleep On My Love

4. I Am I Am

5. Just Passing Through

6. Virgin Man

7. She's Only A Baby Herself

8. Fulfill Your Need

9. A Tattoo

THIS CD IS TRULY REMARKABLE. BACK IN THE DAY WHERE MUSIC SAID ALOT. NO ONE SHOULD BE WITHOUT THIS IN THEIR COLLECTION. GREAT SONGS FROM START TO FINISH. I REALLY DON'T HAVE ANY FAVORITES BECAUSE I LOVE ALL THE SONGS JUST THE SAME. GREAT CD.

This LP from the 70's is good. It dose not compare to "A Quiet Storm" but good just the same. Smokey's voice is great here.

Pure Smokey is a wonderful CD full of incredible music...
Smokey is fabulous in this CD...Highly recommend this for all serious Smokey Robinson Fans.

i bought this album in 1974, and have enjoyed it ever since, as the album insists its PURE SMOKEY, one his first albums since leaving the Miracles. i recommend it to all fans of smokey robinson, her turn to live,awesome. great collector cd. (Siufu ...)

Sometimes an album title is a total misnomer but NOT in this case.'Pure Smokey' is such a wonderful album (and Smokey has MANY) that George Harrison named a song after it on his Thirty Three & 1/3 album (which sounds GREAT next to something like this).On this recording Smokey reflects on his family and a mature side of romance with a variety of soulful textures,styles and tempos."It's Her Turn To Live" starts out with a rather unusual note for smokey-a wah-wah driven funk excursion outside his usual ballad style but still brimming over with his great love poetry and class,forever shedding anyones misconceptions of funk grooves as songless musicians excersises.On the classic "Virgin Man" Smokey furthers the same approch,only on a deeper funk level and those two songs are just chillingly lovely-the sweetest funk this side of Marvin,Curtis,Isaac and Barry.Along the way he offers off steaming bowlfulls of his classic mellow soul stylings on the surprisingly pointed and unsentimental please "The Love Between Me And My Kids","I Am I Am","A Tattoo" and "Just Passing Through",which is a truely unsung classic for that "should've been a big hit" group of Motown songs.Taken with this there is plenty of slow ballads here too such as the tender "Asleep On My Love","Fullfill Your Need" and "She's Only A Baby Herself"-a song I think may actually be a reflection on Smokey's extra marital affair around the same period but I don't know.But no matter how you take it,this was to my knowledge OOP for many years and Motown has gladly made it available again and at a reduced price.So my recommendation?Pick this up with A Quiet Storm and enjoy!Music seldom gets much better then this!