Discography and Biography of Smokey Robinson. Listen to all their hits.
Smokey Robinson Songs

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William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B/pop singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson was the founder and front man of the Motown vocal group the Miracles, for which he also served as the group's chief songwriter and producer. Robinson led the group from its 1955 origins as the Five Chimes until 1972 when he announced a retirement from the stage to focus on his role as Motown's vice president. However, Robinson returned to the music industry as a solo artist the following year, later scoring Top 10 solo hits such as "Cruisin'" (1979), "Being With You" (1981) and "Just to See Her" (1987). Following the sale of Motown Records in 1988, Robinson left the company in 1990. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987.

Below is a list of Smokey Robinson songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Tamla 54321
chart position: RandB #1, UK #1, US #2, US AC #4
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Being with You / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 12
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Being with You
1981 Tamla
2 record label: Motown 1877
chart position: RandB #2, UK #52, US #8, US AC #1
written by: Jimmy George & Lou Pardini
album: One Heartbeat
Smokey Robinson Just to See Her
1987 Motown
3 record label: Tamla 54306
chart position: RandB #4, US #4, US AC #34
written by: Smokey Robinson & Marv Tarplin
album: Where There's Smoke / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 11
comments: [Motown Sound] [ballad]
Smokey Robinson Cruisin'
1979 Tamla
4 record label: Motown 1897
chart position: RandB #3, US #10, US AC #2
written by: Brian Ray & Steve LeGassick
album: One Heartbeat
Smokey Robinson One Heartbeat
1987 Motown
5 record label: Tamla 1601
chart position: RandB #3, UK #51, US #33, US dance #53, US AC #31
written by: Gary Goetzman & Mike Piccirillo
album: Yes It's You Lady / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 12
Smokey Robinson Tell Me Tomorrow
1982 Tamla
6 record label: Tamla 54311
chart position: RandB #4, US #31
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Warm Thoughts
comments: [Motown Sound] [sweet soul ballad]
Smokey Robinson Let Me Be the Clock
1980 Tamla
7 record label: Tamla 54258
chart position: RandB #1, US #26
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: A Quiet Storm
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Baby That's Backatcha
1975 Tamla
8 record label: Tamla 54239
chart position: RandB #7, US #27
written by: Smokey Robinson, Marv Tarplin & Pamela Young
album: Smokey...
comments: [love ballad]
Smokey Robinson Baby Come Close
1973 Tamla
9 record label: Tamla 54327
chart position: RandB #31, UK #76, US #59
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Being with You
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson You Are Forever
1981 Tamla
10 record label: Tamla 54261
chart position: RandB #7, US #36
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: A Quiet Storm
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson The Agony and the Ecstasy
1975 Tamla
11 record label: Tamla 54279
chart position: RandB #7, US #42
written by: Mike Sutton & Kathy Wakefield
album: Deep in My Soul
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson There Will Come a Day (I'm Gonna Happen to You)
1977 Tamla
12 record label: Motown 2031
chart position: RandB #4, US AC #2
written by: Pam Reswick and Steve Werfel
album: Love, Smokey
comments: [ballad]
Smokey Robinson Everything You Touch
1990 Motown
13 record label: Tamla 54251
chart position: RandB #6, US #56
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Pure Smokey
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson I Am, I Am
1974 Tamla
14 record label: Tamla 1655
chart position: RandB #8, US #108
written by: Smokey Robinson and Marv Tarplin
album: Touch the Sky
comments: [Motown Sound] [love ballad]
Smokey Robinson I've Made Love to You a Thousand Times
1983 Tamla
15 record label: Tamla 54293
chart position: RandB #9, US #75
written by: Smokey Robinson and Rose Ella Jones
album: Love Breeze
comments: [Motown Sound] US b side to Why You Wanna See My Bad Side
Smokey Robinson Daylight and Darkness
1978 Tamla
16 record label: Tamla 54267
chart position: RandB #10, US #81
written by: Pamela Young, Smokey Robinson and Marv Tarplin (as Marvin Tarplin)
album: Smokey's Family Robinson
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Open
1976 Tamla
17 record label: Tamla 1828
chart position: RandB #11, UK #83, US AC #18
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Smoke Signals
Smokey Robinson Hold On to Your Love
1986 Tamla
18 record label: Tamla 1615
chart position: RandB #17, US #60, US AC #32
written by: Gary Goetzman and Mike Piccirillo
album: Yes It's You Lady
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Old Fashioned Love
1982 Tamla
19 record label: Tamla Motown 883 (UK)
chart position: UK #35
written by: Robinson, Tarplin
album: Smokey... / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 9
Smokey Robinson Just My Soul Responding
1974 Tamla Motown
20 record label: Motown 1911
chart position: RandB #16, US #79, US AC #15
written by: Smokey Robinson, Lonnie Kirtz, Ivory Stone and Homer Talbert
album: One Heartbeat
Smokey Robinson What's Too Much
1987 Motown
21 record label: Tamla 54250
chart position: RandB #12
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Pure Smokey
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Virgin Man
1974 Tamla
22 record label: Tamla 54284
chart position: RandB #18, US #101
written by: Larry Brown and Terri McFadden
album: Deep in My Soul
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Vitamin U
1977 Tamla
23 record label: Tamla 54288
chart position: RandB #38, US Dance #16
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Big Time: Original Music Score from the Motion Picture / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 10
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Theme from Big Time
1977 Tamla
24 record label: Tamla 54265
chart position: RandB #25, US #61
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: A Quiet Storm
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Quiet Storm
1976 Tamla
25 record label: SBK 07370
chart position: RandB #16, US #41, US AC #12
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Double Good Everything
Smokey Robinson Double Good Everything
1991 SBK
26 record label: Tamla 1735
chart position: RandB #33, US #106, UK #90
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Essar
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson And I Don't Love You
1984 Tamla
27 record label: Motown 1925
chart position: RandB #31, UK #89, US AC #24
written by: Smokey Robinson and Steve Tavari
album: One Heartbeat
Smokey Robinson Love Don't Give No Reason
1988 Motown
28 record label: Tamla 54246
chart position: RandB #29
written by: Smokey Robinson and Marv Tarplin (as Marvin Tarplin)
album: Pure Smokey
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson It's Her Turn to Live
1974 Tamla
29 record label: Tamla 54233
chart position: RandB #31
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Smokey...
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Sweet Harmony
1973 Tamla
30 record label: Tamla 54313
chart position: RandB #34
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Warm Thoughts
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Heavy on Pride (Light on Love)
1980 Tamla
31 record label: Tamla 1700
chart position: RandB #75, US #103
written by: Dave DeLuca and Guy Thomas
comments: [Motown Sound] [beat ballad]
Smokey Robinson Don't Play Another Love Song
1983 Tamla
32 record label: Tamla 1630
chart position: US #107
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Yes It's You Lady
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Yes It's You Lady
1982 Tamla
33 record label: Tamla 1756
chart position: RandB #41, US #109
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Essar
comments: [ballad] [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson I Can't Find
1984 Tamla
34 record label: Tamla 1678
chart position: RandB #68, US #110
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Touch the Sky
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Touch the Sky
1983 Tamla
35 record label: Motown 17828
chart position: RandB #68, US AC #32
written by: Ken Gold and Brenda Madison
album: Love, Smokey
comments: [love ballad]
Smokey Robinson (It's the) Same Old Love
1990 Motown
36 record label: Motown 1839
chart position: RandB #51
written by: Alan Gorrie and Michael Mugrage
album: Smoke Signals
Smokey Robinson Sleepless Nights
1986 Motown
37 record label: Tamla 54293
chart position: RandB #52
written by: Smokey Robinson and Janie Bradford
album: Love Breeze
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Why You Wanna See My Bad Side
1978 Tamla
38 record label: Tamla 54276
chart position: Cashbox RandB #56
written by: Ron MIller, W. Goldstein
comments: [Motown Sound Ballad]
Smokey Robinson An Old-Fashioned Man
1976 Tamla
39 record label: SBK 97968
chart position: RandB #56
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Double Good Everything
Smokey Robinson Rewind
1992 SBK
40 record label: SBK 97968
chart position: RandB #57
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Double Good Everything
comments: [ballad]
Smokey Robinson I Love Your Face
1992 SBK
41 record label: Tamla 54332
chart position: RandB #62
written by: Gary Goetzman and Mike Piccirillo
album: Being with You
comments: [ballad]
Smokey Robinson Who's Sad
1981 Tamla
42 record label: Motown 81533
chart position: RandB #67
album: Intimate
comments: [love ballad]
Smokey Robinson Easy to Love
1999 Motown
43 record label: Motown 927
chart position: US AC #34
written by: Pam Reswick and Steve Werfel
album: Love, Smokey
Smokey Robinson Take Me Through the Night
1990 Motown
44 record label: Tamla 54296
chart position: RandB #68
written by: Smokey Robinson, Mike Sutton and Brenda Sutton
album: Love Breeze
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Shoe Soul
1978 Tamla
45 record label: Tamla 54301
chart position: RandB #82
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Where There's Smoke…
comments: [Motown Sound]
Smokey Robinson Get Ready
1979 Tamla
46 record label: Robso Records
chart position: RandB #83
written by: Smokey Robinson
comments: [Robso album cut]
Smokey Robinson Love Bath
2010 Robso Records
47 record label: Robso
chart position: RandB #102
written by: Jesse Harris
album: Time Flies When You\'re Having Fun
comments: [ballad]
Smokey Robinson Don't Know Why
2009 Robso
48 record label: Motown 1657
chart position: RandB #106
album: Intimate
Smokey Robinson Sleepin' In
2000 Motown
49 record label: Motown
chart position: RandB #113
album: My World: the Definitive Collection
Smokey Robinson My World
2005 Motown
-- record label: Tamla 367
written by: Marv Tarplin, Pamela Moffett, William Smokey Robinson
album: Warm Thoughts
comments: (Female vocal - Claudette Robinson) [album cut]
Smokey Robinson Wine, Women And Song
1980 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 328
written by: William Robinson
album: Smokey...
comments: [album cut]
Smokey Robinson The Family Song
1973 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla Motown 898 (UK)
written by: Robinson, Jones
album: Smokey...
comments: [ballad]
Smokey Robinson A Silent Partner In A Three Way Love Affair
1974 Tamla Motown
-- record label: Tamla 328
written by: William Robinson
album: Smokey...
comments: [album cut]
Smokey Robinson Wanna Know My Mind
1973 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 328
written by: Carole King, Gerry Goffin
album: Smokey...
comments: [love ballad album cut]
Smokey Robinson Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
1973 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 54284
written by: S. Robinson
album: Smokey...
comments: [ballad album cut]
Smokey Robinson Holly
1973 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 328
written by: Don And Dick Addrisi, Clifton Davis
album: Smokey...
comments: [album cut]
Smokey Robinson Medley...Never My Love--Never Can Say Goodbye
1973 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 54261
written by: W. Robinson
album: A Quiet Storm
comments: [love ballad]
Smokey Robinson Wedding Song
1975 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 337S1
written by: Wm. Robinson, M. Legrand
album: A Quiet Storm
comments: [ballad album cut]
Smokey Robinson Happy (Love Theme from Lady Sings The Blues)
1975 Tamla S
-- record label: Tamla 367
written by: Donny Soul, William Smokey Robinson
album: Warm Thoughts
comments: [ballad album cut]
Smokey Robinson What's In Your Life For Me
1980 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 367
written by: William Smokey Robinson
album: Warm Thoughts
comments: [ballad album cut]
Smokey Robinson I Want To Be Your Love
1980 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 367
written by: Stevie Wonder, William Smokey Robinson
album: Warm Thoughts
comments: [album cut]
Smokey Robinson Melody Man
1980 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 1655
written by: William Smokey Robinson
album: Warm Thoughts
comments: [ballad]
Smokey Robinson Into Each Rain Some Life Must Fall
1980 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 337S1
written by: W. Robinson, R.E. Jones
album: A Quiet Storm
comments: [album cut]
Smokey Robinson Love Letters
1975 Tamla S
-- record label: Tamla 337S1
written by: W. Robinson
album: A Quiet Storm
comments: [album cut]
Smokey Robinson Coincidentally
1975 Tamla S
-- record label: Tamla 367
written by: Rose Ella Jones
album: Warm Thoughts
comments: [album cut]
Smokey Robinson Travelin' Through
1980 Tamla




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