Pure Smokey

Pure Smokey is Smokey Robinson's second post-Miracles album, released in 1974. It features the single "Virgin Man." Several songs were written by Robinson with fellow Miracle Marv Tarplin, who left the group a year after Robinson's departure to join him in California and assist him in his solo projects.

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
CreemC+[2]
For the 1976 George Harrison song that pays tribute to Smokey Robinson, see Pure Smokey (song).
Pure Smokey
Studio album by
Smokey Robinson
ReleasedMarch 15, 1974
RecordedSeptember - December 1973
GenreSoul, funk
Length39:29
LabelTamla
ProducerSmokey Robinson
Smokey Robinson chronology
Smokey
(1973)		 Pure Smokey
(1974)		 A Quiet Storm
(1975)

Track listing

All tracks are produced by Smokey Robinson; except "A Tattoo".

All tracks arranged by Russ Turner, Gene Page and Smokey Robinson, except where indicated.

  1. "It's Her Turn to Live" (Robinson, Marvin Tarplin)
  2. "The Love Between Me and My Kids" (Robinson)
  3. "Asleep on My Love" (Robinson, Tarplin)
  4. "I Am I Am" (Robinson)
  5. "Just Passing Through" (Tarplin, Janie Bradford, Al Cleveland)
  6. "Virgin Man" (Robinson, Rose Ella Jones)
  7. "She's Only a Baby Herself" (Robinson)
  8. "Fulfill Your Need" (Robinson, Tarplin, Pamela Moffett)
  9. "A Tattoo" (Robinson)

"I Am, I Am" arranged by Smokey Robinson and Gene Page

"A Tattoo" produced and arranged by Smokey Robinson and Willie Hutch

Personnel

References
  1. AllMusic review
  2. Christgau, Robert (July 1974). "The Christgau Consumer Guide". Creem. Retrieved February 10, 2017.


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