The Fabulous Miracles

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The Fabulous Miracles

Studio album by The Miracles

Released

Tamla (Motown)
TM 238

Producer

Smokey Robinson

Professional reviews

All Music Guide link

The Miracles chronology

Christmas with The Miracles
(1963)

The Fabulous Miracles
(1963)

The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage
(1963)

The Fabulous Miracles is a 1963 album by The Miracles featuring the million-selling hit, "You've Really Got A Hold On Me", one of the group's most popular singles. It was later reissued as You've Really Got A Hold On Me.It also features the chart hits "A Love She Can Count On" and "I've Been Good To You" , which The Beatles' John Lennon has identified as his favorite Miracles song.^{[citation needed]}

The album also features "I Can Take A Hint", which charted on the Billboard pop & R&B listings after being issued as the B-side of "A Love She Can Count On". "(Have A) Happy Landing", the B-side of "You Really Got A Hold On Me" which, never charted nationally, although it did become a hit on several regional charts. The Miracles performed "(Have A) Happy Landing" on their first live album, The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage.

The Fabulous Miracles is only one of three Miracles albums to feature Miracles guitarist and original group member Marv Tarplin on its cover. The Miracles' bass singer Pete Moore is not featured on the album or the cover, as he was serving in the U.S. Armed Services at the time this album was recorded (Moore is shown in a separate photograph on the back cover). While Tarplin remained a member of the Miracles through 1973, he was not featured any of the album covers, except for 1961's Cookin' with The Miracles, 1962's I'll Try Something New, and this album.