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It was written by Billy Griffin and his Miracles group-mate, original Miracle Pete Moore, with whom he wrote the rest of the City of Angels tracks as well. [2] The song's lyrics, delivered over a disco beat, compare a lover to an electronic device such as a computer or a robot. The seven-minute song was split into two parts for its release as a ...
Griffin was born and raised in West Baltimore, Maryland.He attended Garrison Junior High School and Forest Park High School.He, like his brother Donald Griffin (1955–2015), [2] [3] (who later replaced Marv Tarplin in the Miracles), was a guitarist, as well as a singer, and sang with a local Baltimore group called The Last Dynasty.
City of Angels is an album by the Motown soul group The Miracles, released on Motown Records' Tamla label in September 1975.The group's fourth album recorded after replacing lead singer Smokey Robinson with Billy Griffin in 1972, City of Angels is a concept album, depicting of a man from "Anytown, U.S.A." who follows his estranged girlfriend Charlotte to Los Angeles, where she has gone in ...
By this point, Billy Griffin's brother Donald, who had begun providing guitar on Miracles studio recordings shortly after Marv Tarplin's departure, had officially joined the group on lead guitar. The group immediately had problems after signing with Columbia, starting with the release of their first Columbia single, "Spy For Brotherhood".
After auditioning some 60 hopefuls, [1] the group decided on Billy Griffin, a native of Baltimore, Maryland. In the 2006 Miracles DVD release The Definitive Performances (1963-1987) , Miracles Pete Moore and Bobby Rogers commented that the group decided on Griffin because, in addition to being a great singer, he also demonstrated some ...
The Miracles. Billy Griffin – vocals; Donald Griffin – guitar; Warren "Pete" Moore – vocals; Bobby Rogers – vocals; Ronnie White – vocals; Additional personnel. Dorothy Ashby – harp on "Sad Rain"
Love Crazy is an album by American R&B group The Miracles featuring singer Billy Griffin, released via Columbia Records in 1977. The album is the first of two albums released on their new label following their departure from Motown .
"Give Me Just Another Day" was released on CD in the 2003 Motown compilation,The Miracles: Love Machine- The 70's Collection [3] and was also released in 2012 in The Motown 2-in-1-CD set, Renaissance/Do It Baby, a collection of the Miracles' first two complete albums with Billy Griffin.