NEW 📀 Going To A Go-Go - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles {Stereo} 1965

1965-66......#11 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #10 U.S. Cash Box Top 100
Original video edited and AI remastered with HQ stereo sound.
"Going to a Go-Go" is a 1965 single recorded by The Miracles for Motown's Tamla label.
Smokey Robinson sings lead on "Going to a Go-Go", which he co-wrote with fellow Miracles Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, and Marv Tarplin. Moore, Rogers, Ronnie White, and Smokey Robinson's wife Claudette Robinson provide backing vocals for the song, an up-tempo dance song inviting people of all walk of life to attend a go-go party. Miracles Robinson and Pete Moore were the song's producers. In the Motown DVD release Smokey Robinson And The Miracles: The Definitive Performances, Miracles member and co-writer Bobby Rogers commented that this song was inspired by the success of the "Go-go" clubs that grew in popularity throughout the United States in the 1960s. While at first a regional phenomenon, the success of this Miracles song ignited a nationwide fad for go-go music in America.
Issued in December 1965, "Going to a Go-Go" peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States the following spring. In addition, the single peaked at number-two on the Billboard Hot R&B Singles chart and was The Miracles' fifth million-selling record.
Cash Box described it as a "hard-driving, bluesy handclapper with an infectious repeating rhythmic riff" and felt the song was "ultra-commercial."
"Going to a Go-Go" is featured on the Miracles' album of the same name, which proved to be their highest-charting LP of all-original material. The album reached the Top Ten of the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart in early 1966, peaking at number eight, and reached #1 on the Billboard top R&B albums chart. In 2003, the Miracles' Going To A Go-Go album was ranked number 271 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Personnel:
The Miracles
Smokey Robinson – lead vocals, producer
Marv Tarplin – 12-string lead guitar
Bobby Rogers – background vocals, co-writer
Ronnie White – background vocals
Pete Moore – background vocals, co-writer, vocal arranger
Claudette Rogers Robinson – background vocals
Other instrumentation by The Funk Brothers
Eddie Willis – rhythm guitar
Earl Van Dyke – piano
James Jamerson – bass
Benny Benjamin – drums
Eddie "Bongo" Brown – percussion
Jack Ashford – tambourine

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[kingporter]

WOW, I dig this Going To a Go-Go song by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles!!!

[sandtalanders]

I loved Motown anyway, but Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye were special. No won der they were such good friends. Thank you love ir!, ❤❤😂😅🎻🎵🎶

[audionut]

So nice to hear this in true stereo...you do such a fantastic

[themagicsinthemusic]

Man, we had great music back then! Motown Magic, for sure. Great to see the fun times from 1965. Thanks so much!!

[markmccammon]

This tune is so catchy. 1965 I joined the Air Force in November.

[AndyT]

Oh do I remember this from my college days!

[EnzoDBaker]

I'm hungry. Think I'm goin' to a Togo's.. everybody...

[tomcat]

Like hearing this for the first time: the perfect syncing really makes it come alive. You’re a magician. ❤

[jacob]

Great syncing of stereo to the HQ video Sammy.

[cottonbud]

Always a pleasure to see REAL girls gyrating and high kicking !😁

[djpopcorn]

Do you know where the original audio os to this clip?

[maricella]

I think this clip was from Hullabaloo. I noticed Lada as one of the dancers in a cage. Or I could be wrong. 😊

[naomijones]

What's with the Goofy Patrol prancing around my Boyz? They are diffusing the cool from the performance! Put out The Hook and pull (to use Bob Marley's phrase) "Them Crazies" off the