1 R&B hit for the Miracles in 1962, becomes a rock record when Aerosmith frontman Tyler sings it. "Whatever song they said, that's the one I recorded with them." The stylistic diversity of the artists who appear on the album mean some songs got significant makeovers. "He asked them their favorite Smokey Robinson song," Robinson says. Randy Jackson, the album's producer, assembled the guests. Together, they remake hits that Robinson recorded with the Miracles and as a solo act, as well as tunes he penned for Marvin Gaye ( Ain't That Peculiar, sung with Taylor) and the Temptations ( My Girl, cut with Miguel, Aloe Blacc and JC Chasez). Smokey & Friends features Robinson's best-known songs performed as duets with the likes of James Taylor, Sir Elton John, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, Sheryl Crow and Mary J. For him to like one of my songs like that is a very flattering thing." "He's a wonderful young artist and a great songwriter. storm song, Solved: excellent late 90s/early 00s R&B quiet storm song.
"We just laughed about it, and here we are recording together," Robinson says. (Registration Facebook, AccuRadio on 13, Quiet storm was most popular as a. Robinson says he heard Legend cover Quiet Storm in concert several years ago and told him he should record it. "It was one of those surprise records for me." "I didn't think it would do something like that," says Robinson, 74, who thinks of that 1975 album as his post-Miracles return to show business. The track gave name to a popular '70s late-night format that favored R&B slow jams, especially those that had some jazz in them. Quiet Storm initially was the title track of a 1975 album for Robinson, his third after leaving the Miracles, the Motown group with which he recorded The Tracks of My Tears, You Really Got a Hold of Me, Ooh Baby Baby, Tears of a Clown and more than 20 other top-40 pop hits. The 1999 book What the Music Said: Black Popular Music and Black Public. The track will appear on Robinson's new Smokey & Friendsalbum, due Aug. Just three years before the first Quiet Storm broadcast aired, she took a job. The original version of Smokey Robinson's Quiet Storm launched an entire radio format.Ī new version of the song with John Legend premieres at USA TODAY.
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