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"The Tears of a Clown" is a song written by Hank Cosby, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder and originally recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for the Tamla Records label subsidiary of Motown, first appearing on the 1967 album Make It Happen.
Make It Happen is a 1967 album by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles.It featured ballads such as the hit singles "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" and "More Love", as well as the up-tempo "The Tears of a Clown" co-written by Stevie Wonder and his producer Hank Cosby.
The 1970 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles hit "The Tears of a Clown" references Pagliacci in the lines "Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my sadness hid". An earlier song cowritten by Robinson, "My Smile Is Just a Frown Turned Upside," sung by Carolyn Crawford in 1964, had included the same line.
‘Tears of a Clown’ by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles (1967) Written by Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, and Henry Cosby. When Stevie Wonder first played the music to “Tears of a Clown ...
He joined the Beat to record their first single, "Tears of a Clown", a cover version of the Motown hit by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. [4] The band's debut studio album, I Just Can't Stop It, was released in May 1980, entering the UK albums chart at No. 3. [5]
Madonna: Tears of a Clown, two concerts by Madonna "Tears of a Clown", a song by Iron Maiden from the 2015 studio album The Book of Souls "The Tears of a Clown", a song by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles; Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America (2010), a political commentary book by Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank
Also included is the group's number-one smash hit "The Tears of a Clown", which was also made available through the reissue of the 1967 Miracles LP Make It Happen as The Tears of a Clown. Both of these songs were also huge hits in the UK, reaching #11 and #1 respectively.
The Miracles were the Motown Record Corporation's first group and its first million-selling recording artists. During their nineteen-year run on the American music charts, the Miracles charted over fifty hits and recorded in the genres of doo-wop, soul, disco, and R&B. Twenty-six Miracles songs reached the top 10 of the Billboard R&B singles chart, including four R&B number ones.