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Smokey Robinson
OOO Baby Baby: The Anthology
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Released: 2002
Label: Motown
Selection #: 245686
You've Really Got A Hold On Me, Tracks Of My Tears, Tears Of A Clown, Shop Around, I Second That Emotion, More Love, more.
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1 Got a Job
2 Bad Girl
3 Way Over There
4 (You Can) Depend on Me
5 Who's Lovin' You
6 Shop Around
7 Ain't It Baby
8 Mighty Good Lovin'
9 Everybody's Gotta Pay Some Dues
10 What's So Good About Goodbye
11 I'll Try Something New
12 You've Really Got a Hold on Me
13 A Love She Can Count On
14 I Can Take a Hint
15 I've Been Good to You
16 Mickey's Monkey
17 Whatever Makes You Happy
18 I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying
19 (You Can't Let the Boy Overpower) The Man in You
20 I Like It Like That
21 That's What Love Is Made Of
22 Would I Love You
23 Come on Do the Jerk
24 Baby Don't You Go
25 Ooo Baby Baby
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There isn't much of a crucial difference between this and the previous Smokey Robinson & the Miracles collection entitled "Anthology", originally issued in 1973 and then on CD with minor variations in 1995. More to the point, perhaps, about 85 percent of the songs on the two-CD set "Ooo Baby Baby: The Anthology" were also on the more plainly titled "Anthology", so the differences are kind of cosmetic. "Ooo Baby Baby: The Anthology" has all 28 of their Top 40 hits, so someone looking for the essentials, garnished by a good amount of other material that isn't as familiar, will undoubtedly be satisfied. "Ooo Baby Baby: The Anthology" does have a small but significant edge in the inclusion of the exquisite mid-'60s mid-tempo ballad "Would I Love You," a great 1964 B-side that somehow escaped inclusion on the CD iteration of "Anthology". As far as other minor differences that will probably escape detection by the great majority of listeners, there are first-ever stereo mixes of "Whatever Makes You Happy," "I Can Take A Hint," and "Baby Don'T You Go"; the first CD appearance of both "I Can Take A Hint" (from the 1963 LP "The Fabulous Miracles") and a live "I'Ve Been Good To You" (also from a 1963 LP); and new, extended stereo mixes of "You'Ve Really Got A Hold On Me," "Would I Love You," and "I'Ll Try Something New." However you slice it, it's great soul music, not much less solid than single-disc Miracles collections, though owners of the previous releases titled "Anthology" will not find enough extras here to merit investment. ~ Richie Unterberger, All Music Guide

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