Song · Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
“Going To A Go Go” by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
From the album Going to a Go‐Go (1965)
“Going To A Go Go” by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2012. It was first released in 1965 on the album Going to a Go‐Go. Its best result is #848 on the WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012).
Smokey Robinson produced "Going to a Go-Go" and wrote it with Warren “Pete” Moore, Bobby Rogers and Marvin Tarplin, and the song gave its name to the Miracles' seventh studio album, which came out on Motown's Tamla label on November 1, 1965. It was one of four Top 20 hits crammed onto that one LP, keeping company with "Ooo Baby Baby", "The Tracks of My Tears" and "My Girl Has Gone".
That is a loaded deck for a single record, and the buyers noticed: Going to a Go-Go became the only Miracles studio album to break into the Top 10 of Billboard's LP 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 later found a spot for it among its 500 greatest albums ever made.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 848 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) | 885 |
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