The Miracles

Motown's first group and first million-selling act, the Miracles mastered styles ranging from doo wop to disco during a two-decade recording career that, most obviously, provided a platform for incomparable high tenor vocalist and proficient songwriter Smokey Robinson. The richness of the Miracles' group harmonies was evident on their 1958 Top Five R&B debut single, "Got a Job," which Berry Gordy, Jr., produced before he launched Motown. The group soon became reliable hitmakers for Motown subsidiary Tamla, achieving their first Top Ten pop and number one R&B hit in 1960 with "...