Time Out for Smokey Robinson & The Miracles

Time Out for Smokey Robinson & the Miracles is a 1969 album by Motown group The Miracles. It reached #25 on the Billboard Pop Album chart, and contains four pop top 40 singles – "Doggone Right", "Abraham, Martin & John", "Here I Go Again" and the top ten pop smash hit "Baby, Baby Don't Cry". Time Out also features covers of Motown songs such as "For Once in My Life" and the Robinson-penned songs "My Girl" and "The Composer". Miracles members Marv Tarplin, Pete Moore and Ronnie White were also co-writers on several of the album's tracks, along with Motown staff songwriters Al Cleveland, Ron Miller and Terry Johnson. Miracle Pete Moore also co-produced two of the album's tracks, a prelude to his later production of the Miracles' massively successful platinum-selling City of Angels album of a few years later. The Miracles' Time Out album was originally released on CD in 1986, and again in 2001 coupled with their album, Four in Blue.

Side one

 * 1) "Doggone Right" (Robinson, Marvin Tarplin, Al Cleveland)
 * 2) "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" (Cleveland, Terry "Buzzy" Johnson, Robinson)
 * 3) "My Girl" (Robinson, Ronald White)
 * 4) "The Hurt Is Over" (Robinson, Tarplin, Cleveland)
 * 5) "You Neglect Me" (Robinson, Tarplin)
 * 6) "Abraham, Martin & John" (Dick Holler)

Side two

 * 1) "For Once in My Life" (Ron Miller, Orlando Murden)
 * 2) "Once I Got To Know You (Couldn't Help But Love You)" (Johnson, Robinson)
 * 3) "Wichita Lineman" (Jimmy Webb)
 * 4) "The Composer" (Robinson)
 * 5) "Here I Go Again" (Robinson, Johnson, Cleveland, Warren Moore)
 * 6) "I'll Take You Anyway That You Come" (Robinson)

The Miracles

 * Smokey Robinson – lead vocals
 * Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers, Warren "Pete" Moore (co-lead on "Doggone Right"), Claudette Robinson – backing vocals
 * Marv Tarplin – guitar


 * Smokey Robinson – producer, album executive producer
 * Warren "Pete" Moore and Terry "Buzzy" Johnson – co-producer on "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" and "Here I Go Again"
 * Funk Brothers – other instrumentations