Album · Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Going to a Go‐Go by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Going to a Go‐Go is an album by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, released in 1965. 2 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 6 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “The Tracks Of My Tears”, on 5 lists with a best position of #416.
Going to a Go-Go, the seventh studio album by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, came out on Motown's Tamla label on November 1, 1965, and it's about as close to a greatest-hits set as a studio LP gets. Four of its songs went top 20: "Ooo Baby Baby", "The Tracks of My Tears", "My Girl Has Gone" and the title track. Smokey is credited as producer, and he's at the height of his powers as a singer of heartbreak, that silky high voice wringing every drop from the ballads while the title track turns the whole room into a dance floor.
It was the only Miracles studio album to reach the top 10 of Billboard's Top LPs chart, where it stayed for 40 weeks and peaked at number 8, and it went all the way to number one on the R&B albums chart. Rolling Stone has kept it on its list of the 500 greatest albums through every revision.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Going to a Go‐Go on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Tracks Of My Tears | 5 | #416 | – | 2004–2026 | |
| 2 | Going To A Go Go | 1 | #848 | – | 2012 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.