How many hit songs ever made a reference to Pagliacci? And how many featured a bassoon? This Smokey Robinson and the Miracles hit, their only pop #1 with Robinson in the lineup, was a buried album track...for three years. Finally Motown’s UK distributor, frustrated with a lack of Miracles product, got permission to issue this as a 45 and it reached #1 over there. Berry Gordy followed suit in America and got the same result. Smokey wrote the lyrics; Stevie Wonder and Henry Cosby the music.
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