Originally Posted by
tjl
Smokey and I have talked about this record [[and the alternate) version of this record with the extra drums a few times - it's always been one of my absolute favorite Miracles tunes....but, not his. He has said very candidly in radio and tv interviews I've done with him - if there was one hit he didn't like of all of them - it was this one. It's like the one song whenever I try to bring it up with him - he just shakes his head and says "no" [[in a very kind way).
But - he loved the other H-D-H- hits they cut, like "It's A Good Feeling," "Mickey's Monkey," "I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying" - just not this one. I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that the he's being pushed by H-D-H just beyond the top of his range which created the breathlessness and desperation in the performance - he just thought it was too much.
If you've ever heard our "Big Hits & More" set we did, Tom Moulton made an incredible extended version of this with the Miracles at the end that is just heart-pounding. But, Smokey [[in my talks with him over the years) did love "Whole Lottta Shaking In My Heart" a Frank Wilson track cut on them which to me is as "Mickey's Monkey" might be to "Dancing's Alright".
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