Smokey Robinson - My World: The Definitive Collection (2005)

As I've often written plagiarized: "Smokey Robinson should be on money."  A postage stamp at the very least.

• 1983 Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
• 1990 Songwriters Hall of Fame
• 1993 National Medal of Arts 
• 2006 Kennedy Center honoree
• 2016 Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame
• 2016 Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song

Plans for a biopic have been announced several times, but none have ever come to fruition. Maybe Bruno Mars is available?

Despite the album title, this compilation ain't "definitive" but it's about as good as you can get for a non-chronological, single disc, best-of package.

Peak on the US Billboard Top 200 chart: #64

Tracks: Can I complain about 21 tracks being too few?

Song	Year	Hot 100	R&B	AC
My World	2005
Fallin'	2005
Cruisin'	1979	4	4	34
Just To See Her	1987	8	4	1
The Tears Of A Clown*	1970	1	1
You've Really Got A Hold On Me*	1962	8	1
Going To A Go-Go*	1965	11	2
Mickey's Monkey*	1963	8	3
Shop Around*	1965	2	1
The Tracks Of My Tears	1965	16	2
Being With You	1981	2	1	4
Baby That's Backatcha	1975	26	1
I Second That Emotion*	1967	4	1
More Love*	1967	23	5
Yester Love*	1968	31	9
Ooo Baby Baby*	1965	16	4
Baby Come Close	1973	27	7
I've Made Love To You A Thousand Times	1982	101	8
Quiet Storm (single version)	1975	61	4
Let Me Be The Clock	1980	31	4
One Heartbeat	1987	10	3	2

*with The Miracles

Solo Top 40 hits that didn't make the cut: The Agony And The Ecstasy (#36, 1975) and Tell Me Tomorrow (#33, 1982). The Miracles with Smokey had 27 Top 40 hits on their own and those would make a helluva double disc compilation in itself. Better yet, he's placed around 70 hits in the R&B Top 40. But this compilation will do for now.

I tried to pick some favorite cuts here but once the list got to be over ten deep, I just gave up because my brain hurt.

Personal Memory Associated with this CD: Several (especially regarding Cruisin' and 8th grade) and I tried to write about some but once the list got to be over ten deep, I just gave up because my brain hurt. And prone to repetition, apparently.