Smokey Robinson wrote these songs:
- “Who’s Loving You?”
- “It’s Growing”
- “Get Ready”
- “Wonderful Baby”
- “After You Put Back the Pieces (I’ll Still Have a Broken Heart)”
- “Since I Lost My Baby”
- “Way Over There”
- “The Hunter Gets Captured By the Game”
- “Going To a Go-Go”
- “My Guy”
- “Better Late Than Never”
- “Save Me”
- “Ain’t That Peculiar”
- “What’s So Good About Goodbye”
- “Don’t Look Back”
- “The Tracks of My Tears”
- “My Girl”
- “(Come ‘Round Here) I’m the One You Need”
- “Ain’t That Peculiar”
- “Cruisin’”
- “First I Look at the Purse”
- “Shop Around”
- “Little Miss Sweetness”
- “Ooo Baby Baby”
- “The Way You Do the Things You Do”
- “When I’m Gone”
- “Being With You”
- “Two Lovers”
- “Mickey’s Monkey”
- “I’ll Be Doggone”
- “Let Me Be the Clock”
- “You Beat Me To the Punch”
- “My Girl Has Gone”
- “You’ve Got to Earn It”
- “I Second That Emotion”
- “Whole Lotta Woman”
- “You’ve Really Got a Hold on Me”
- “I’ll Be in Trouble”
- “Got a Job”
- “Lucky, Lucky Me”
- “The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage”
- “Here I Am Baby”
- “We’ve Come Too Far to End it Now”
- “Malinda”
- “I Like it Like That”
- “The One Who Really Loves You”
- “The Tears of a Clown”
- “Still Water”
Those are hits for the likes of The Temptations, Mary Wells, Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, The Jackson 5, Bobby Breen, The Contours, The Marvelettes, Brenda Holloway, The Four Tops, Marvin Gaye, his own group, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, and his solo stuff, all between 1958 and 1981.
That is just a small sample of his mind-blowing catalog of songs.
I’d love to hear a purely science/data-based explanation how one person can do something like that 😉
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