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Listening to Smokey Robinson's GREATEST HITS MEDLEY 1982 ........( why were there so many disco medleys made .... did they ever play well ? ) It would have been much wiser to have released some extended versions of each song independently ... the "OO BABY BABY " snipppet begs for Troc play..... (would've been a classic if it had been full length & would've mixed right into Marlena Shaw's "TOUCH ME..." ) .... ...and listening to "TEARS OF A CLOWN " done with a disco beat ..... could've been a great cover for Sylvester to tear up .... "CRUISIN'" sounds great uptempo too...

This is one medley I really like ..... for one thing it's a medley by the original artist ( and what a catalogue) and secondly .... it's all newly resung by Smokey so it's interesting to hear these fresh interpretations of his music. "THE LOVE I SAW IN YOU WAS JUST A MIRAGE " is a stand out for me .... that's a nice little number of his I hadn't known ....

This is odd though .... On the "DON'T MESS WTH BILL" and the "MY GUY " segments .....Smokey drops back and the female back ups take over ....... what's up with that Smokey :P ...... oooh baby baby ..... :lol:

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