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Smokey Robinson - Standing Room Only |
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For almost two decades--the '60s and the '70s--Smokey Robinson was a Motown king of songwriting and performance, first with the Miracles, later as a solo artist. This relatively featureless DVD (which offers only a concert performance with no extras) captures a 1990 concert performance by Robinson in an Atlantic City showroom, featuring a full orchestra behind him, as well as a pair of backup singers. What it reveals is a performer who still knows his craft, even if his sweet, high voice is lower and raspier these days. Yet when he starts singing the hits--"Tears of a Clown," "Tracks of My Tears," "Shop Around," "I Second That Emotion," "Ooh Baby Baby"--you begin to understand why Robinson is ranked right up there with the team of Holland-Dozier-Holland in the songwriting pantheon of Motown history. And, at the end, when he sings a medley of songs (concluding with "Tracks of My Tears") accompanied only by spare electric guitar, you get a true sense of the power of his material. --Marshall Fine
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