The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey

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The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey
The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey cover
Studio album by The Miracles
Released November 1963
Recorded 1963
Genre Soul/pop
Label Tamla
TS 245
Producer Brian Holland
Lamont Dozier
Smokey Robinson
Professional reviews
The Miracles chronology
The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage
(1963)		 The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey
(1963)		 Greatest Hits from the Beginning
(1965)

The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey is a 1963 album by The Miracles for the Tamla (Motown) label. The album includes the Top 10 single "Mickey's Monkey", written and produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland. "Mickey's Monkey" popularized "The Monkey" as a novelty dance, and has been covered by several artists, including The Hollies, The Young Rascals, and John Mellencamp. Also included is another H-D-H dance-oriented single, "I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying", a Billboard Top 40 hit, which inspired a cover version by The Who.

Much of the rest of the LP is made up of cover versions of other popular dance songs, including "The Twist", "Twist and Shout", and The Contours' Motown hit "Do You Love Me".

Contents

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[edit] Side one

  1. "Mickey's Monkey" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
  2. "Dance What You Wanna" (James Alexander, Sam Cooke, Ronald White)
  3. "The Wah-Watusi" (Dave Appell, Kal Mann)
  4. "The Twist" (Hank Ballard)
  5. "Dancin' Holiday" (Robert Rogers, Smith, Zelda Samuels)
  6. "Land of 1000 Dances" (Chris Kenner)

[edit] Side two

  1. "I Gotta Dance to Keep from Crying" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
  2. "The Monkey Time" (Curtis Mayfield)
  3. "The Groovey Thing" (Smokey Robinson)
  4. "Twist and Shout" (Phil Medley, Bert Russell)
  5. "Do You Love Me" (Berry Gordy, Jr.)

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