Deep in My Soul

Deep in My Soul
Studio album by
Smokey Robinson
Released1977
Recorded1976
GenreR&B
LabelTamla
ProducerLawrence Brown, Michael B. Sutton, Elliot Willensky, Hal Davis, Jeffrey Bowen, Bobby Belle
Smokey Robinson chronology
Smokey's Family Robinson
(1976) 		Deep in My Soul
(1977) 		Big Time
(1977)

Deep in My Soul is Smokey Robinson's fifth solo album.[1] It was released in 1977.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Christgau's Record GuideB+[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[1]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul[4]

The Los Angeles Times wrote that "Robinson's singing is excellent, but he needs his own first-rate tunes to restore the Miracles sheen."[5] Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote:

"Smokey has a right to the romanticism that has saturated his solo career—ick with kick has always been his specialty—but I get more from the Big Time soundtrack than from Smokey's Family Robinson. And then there's this, in which various Motown hacks attempt to approximate the bright, direct style of a less mature Smokey and come up with four songs (two of which begin each four-cut side) that actually do so. Whereupon Smokey, pro that he is, sings them as if he wrote them himself."[3]

Track listing

  1. "Vitamin U" (Lawrence Brown, Terri McFaddin) – 4:30
  2. "There Will Come a Day (I'm Gonna Happen to You)" (Michael B. Sutton, Brenda Sutton, Kathy Wakefield) – 3:54
  3. "It's Been a Long Time (Since I Been in Love)" (Elliot Willensky) – 3:43
  4. "Let's Do The Dance of Life Together" (Elliot Willensky) – 3:46
  5. "If You Want My Love" (Donald Charles Baldwin, Jeffrey Bowen) – 3:45
  6. "You Cannot Laugh Alone" (Donald Charles Baldwin, Jeffrey Bowen) – 4:43
  7. "In My Corner" (Victor Orsborn, Eric Robinson) – 4:43
  8. "The Humming Song (Lost for Words)" (Bobby Belle, Art Posey, Josef Powell) – 3:29

Personnel

  • Smokey Robinson – vocals
Technical

References

  1. ^ a b The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 595.
  2. ^ "Deep in My Soul Review by Andrew Hamilton". AllMusic. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
  3. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: R". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 12, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ Larkin, Colin (1998). The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul. Virgin. p. 285.
  5. ^ Hilburn, Robert (Mar 27, 1977). "Pop Music". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 74.