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Tamla's Miracles Break Through At Last!

Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 20 January 1968

THE FIRST of the Tamla Motown groups, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, have finally made it big in the British charts with their runaway transatlantic hit 'I Second That Emotion'. After having dozens of records released on many different labels in this country (including London, Oriole, Philips, Columbia, Stateside and of course Tamla Motown), the Miracles — who toured here with the famous but ill-fated Tamla Motown package some years back — have notched up their biggest hit to date.

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