SMOKEY ROBINSON+MIRACLES MAKE IT HAPPEN/TEARS OF A CLOWN SEALED ORIG'67 TAMLA LP

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·       SMOKEY ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES –  TEARS OF THE CLOWN – ORIGINAL 1970 TAMLA RECORDS STEREO LP TS-276 ('TEARS OF THE CLOWN' IS A 1970 REISSUE OF THE 'MAKE IT HAPPEN' ALBUM ORIGINALLY RELEASED ON TAMLA IN 1967, BUT WITH AN ALTERED ALBUM TITLE,  VIRTUALLY IDENTICAL COVER ARTWORK AND THE SAME CATALOG NUMBER (TS-276); OTHERWISE IDENTICAL TO THE ORIGINAL 1967 RELEASE)

·        NAMELY, AFTER “TEARS OF THE CLOWN” HAD HIT # 1 ON THE UK CHARTS, THE ALBUM WAS RENAMED  (YOU GUESSED IT!) TO “TEARS OF A CLOWN” AND THE COVER ARTWORK WAS CHANGED ACCORDINGLY AS WELL. THIS IS THE SECOND VERSION OF THE ALBUM (AND THE COVER), RELEASED  THREE YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL RELEASE)

·       GENUINE  U.S. PRESSIN

·       GUARANTEED ORIGINAL YELLOW AND BROWN TAMLA LABEL, LATE 60’S TO MID-70’S STYLE

·       THIS IS NOT AN IMPORT, RECORD CLUB RELEASE OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.

·       ORIGINAL, THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

·       THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING

(►PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)

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The most underrated Miracles LP of the '60s, Make It Happen featured a spate of great songs, including three or four that really should've been hits (plus one that only became the group's biggest hit three years after release). Opening with "The Soulful Shack," a grooving dance number that would've fit perfectly on the previous year's Away We a Go-Go, the album featured plenty of near-misses, including a pair of delightful good-times dance songs, "My Love Is Your Love (Forever)" and "It's a Good Feeling," plus a great choice for a cover, a tender version of Little Anthony & the Imperials' "I'm on the Outside (Looking In)." The hits really did shine more than any of the other songs, though, marking yet another leap in the level of Smokey Robinson's compositional sophistication. "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" is a brilliant twist on a romantic novelty in the Motown mold (with a production that deftly references the British Invasion), while "More Love" is the most sincere lyric and most emotive performance in the group's catalog, a song of reassurance occasioned by several miscarriages suffered by Robinson's wife (and fellow Miracle), Claudette. The capstone, however, was the last song, "The Tears of a Clown," originally written as an up-tempo instrumental groover by Stevie Wonder and his producer, Hank Cosby. Robinson's lyric is witty yet sublime, and his lead vocal is one of the best performances of his recording career. One of the biggest misses by the notoriously hit-conscious Motown organization was failing to release this as a single before it became an album hit on British radio in 1970, three years after it first appeared. It shot to the top of the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, and prompted Motown to re-release Make It Happen under a new title, The Tears of a Clown.

 (EXCERPT FROM AN ONLINE REVIEW BY JOHN BUSH, ALL MUSIC GUIDE  /ALLMUSIC.COM/)

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·                               CONDITION:

·                               THE RECORD:

 (IMPORTANT NOTE: unless otherwise noted, ALL records are graded visually, and NOT play-graded!; we  grade records under the strong, diffuse room light or discrete sunlight)

(a)          THE ALBUM IS STILL FACTORY SEALED AND IS BELIEVED TO BE PERFECTLY MINT. Please note: sealed items are assumed to be mint and are sold as-is, as we have no way of inspecting them. For our policy on still sealed records ►click here (PLEASE READ BEFORE PLACING A BID).

(b)          The record is believed to come in its original stock inner sleeve.

(c)           The record is  apparently pressed on a beautiful, thick, inflexible vinyl, which was usually used for the first or very early pressings. Usually, the sound on such thick vinyl pressings is full-bodied, vivid, and even dramatic. Do not expect to obtain such a majestic analog sound from a digital recording!

(d)          Of course, this is a full-bodied ANALOG recording, and not an inferior, digital recording!!!

·                               THE COVER:

COVER IS STILL SEALED; HOWEVER, WE ARE UNABLE TO GRADE IT MINT OR NEAR MINT DUE TO MINOR FLAWS LISTED BELOW; WE GRADE THIS COVER AS EXCELLENT OR VG++(A SMALL PIECE OF SHRINK WRAP IS MISSING)

(PLEASE NOTE: THE SHRINK WRAP HAS SEPARATED ALONG ABOUT 10% OF THE OPENING SIDE,  AND 20% ON TOP AND BOTTOM SIDE, THE ALBUM IS STILL VISIBLY SEALED)

The following flaws or imperfections are noted on the cover:

-        Cover has JUST A HINT of ring wear (nothing significant); On the scale from 1 to 10 (1 being the least, and  10 being the most severe), we assess the severity of ring wear as 2.

-        Cover shows some light yellowing on back side, apparently from aging  (nothing significant).

-        Cover has a few tiny wrinkles along the spine  (BARELY VISIBLE)

-        Cover has a partially split bottom seam (between 1 and 2 inches  / 2.5 to 5 centimeters)

-        Cover has all four corners slightly worn / dinged

-        Visible shelf wear noted on the bottom seam 

-        Cover has some light ring wear in one small area not covered by the shrink wrap (nothing significant), delicately masked (camouflaged) with a like-colored (black) marker. (less than 3/4 square inch in size)

NO OTHER VISIBLE FLAWS OR IMPERFECTIONS ON THE  COVER

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