Following the success of the albums A Quiet Storm and Smokey's Family Robinson in the mid-seventies, Smokey Robinson spent a year producing a film and writing its soundtrack. In between Smokey recorded a solo album but due to his film commitment he wrote none of the tunes. This new volume collects those two projects - Deep In My Soul andthe original soundtrack to Big Time - onto one CD, with two rare bonus tracks. Both albums are now on CD for the first time.
Deep In My Soul, a top 50 Pop chart LP, featured the hit singles "There Will Come A Day (I'm Gonna Happen To You) and "Vitamin U"; both recreated the Smokey style so successfully it's odd to realize he didn't write the songs. Big Time was a soundtrack to a nearly forgotten film, but Smokey's music - highlighted by "Hip Trip" and "Theme From Big Time," a top 20 Disco chart hit - has lived on and remains highly sought after on CD.
Pops, We Love You, the 1978 tribute album to Berry Gordy's father, who had died that year at age 90, is the source of this collection's two bonus tracks: "Mother's Son," and the album's title track, a collaboration among Smokey and label mates Diana Ross, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder - for the latter we've included the rare 12-inch version previously unavailable on any album.
Also available:
The Solo Albums Volume 1: Smokey/Pure Smokey
The Solo Albums Volume 2: A Quiet Storm/Smokey's Family Robinson
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