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...voice works its way every place, any time. Over a car radio at high noon in the Mojave. On a cassette recorder during a long day at the beach. No matter how early the hour or how bright the glare. When Smokey Robinson comes on, the shades are drawn and lights go down all over the world...
...made his first big hit, Shop Around, when he was 20. It launched Robinson, the group he helped form, the Miracles, and the upstart Detroit record company that released it on a wing and a prayer, Motown. In the decades since Smokey passed along some tuneful romantic advice ("My mama told me/ You better shop around"), Motown changed from a phenomenon to a corporation. Smokey became vice president of artist relations. He named his son Berry after his friend Berry Gordy Jr., founder of Motown, and christened his daughter Tamla after the Motown subsidiary for which Smokey still records. When...
...church kept easy company with the street corner in his rich melodies, and his lyrics had a shimmering, reflective grace that, at his pleasure, could challenge or seduce. With the Miracles, Smokey helped make a kind of soul music that balanced ghetto pride and middle-class ambition. Some of the group's best tunes-The Tracks of My Tears, You've Really Got a Hold on Me, I Second That Emotion, Ooo Baby Baby-stayed true to the R & B roots even as they beckoned, and found, a larger pop audience...
...truck driver and a government worker who died when her only son was ten, William ("Smokey") Robinson was a kid who spent his candy money on music books but figured that the future would be brighter if he followed a more practical bent. He thought about dentistry, considered electrical engineering, "but between high school and college I met Berry Gordy." Smokey and four cronies from Detroit's North End-Warren Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, Ron White and Claudette Rogers-formed the Miracles, and Smokey left college during the first semester. The name of the debut Miracles single could have...
There are federal laws that forbid persons to detain a Government carrier pigeon or to use the likeness of Smokey Bear without permission, and bar seamen from seducing passengers on a steamship. Yet there is no national statute prohibiting bank extortion, and some espionage offenses are buried in the chapter on atomic energy. These are just a few of the peculiarities of federal criminal law, a hodgepodge of 3,000 statutes that have accumulated since the first days of the republic. As a whole, says Senate Judiciary Committee Special Counsel Kenneth Feinberg, the aide most responsible for promoting...