THE MIRACLES Greatest Hits From The Beginning 2 LP SET FROM 64-22 TRACKS

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THE MIRACLES Greatest Hits From The Beginning 2 LP SET FROM 64-22 TRACKS

A MINT MINUS 2 LP SET ON MOTOWN

FROM 1964 WITH GATEFOLD COVER

22 OF THEIR CLASSIC EARLY TRACKS ON FOUR SIDES

WITH TWO MOTOWN/GORDY/SOUL/TAMLA COLOR INNER SLEEVEs AS SHOWN

TRACKS AS SHOWN ON THE BACK COVER PHOTO

MORE INFO FROM ALLMUSIC.COM
Scoring over 40 hits on the R&B Top 40 charts, the Miracles started out as the Five Chimes in the mid-'50s while the members were still in high school. The Detroit vocal group consisted of William "Smokey" Robinson, Warren "Pete" Moore, Clarence "Humble" Dawson, Donald Wicker, and James "Rat" Grice. Not too long after the group formed, Wicker and Grice left and were replaced by cousins Emerson "Sonny" Rogers and Bobby Rogers, who both sang tenor, and baritonist Ronnie White was in Dawson's place. The vocal quintet then changed its name to the Matadors and in 1956 Claudette Rogers joined the band after her brother Sonny was drafted. The Matadors auditioned for Jackie Wilson's manager, Nat Tarnopol, in 1956. Although Tarnopol wasn't interested, finding the group too similar to the Platters, one of Wilson's songwriters, Berry Gordy, Jr., was and he soon began producing the band, who now went by the name the Miracles. Gordy produced their first single, "Got a Job" (an answer to the Silhouettes' "Get a Job"), which was issued by the New York label End Records in 1958.....

COVER STOCK WITH LIGHT RUB AND RING WEAR AND AGE DISCOLORATION. CORNERS WITH SMALL ROUGH SPOTS AND OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON POINT. SPINE EDGE WITH SOME SMALL NICK DENTS. EDGES WITH SOME SMALL ROUGH SPOTS LOSSES. NOTWITHSTANDING, A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, SO PLEASE DO LOOK AT THE COVER PHOTOS TO ASCERTAIN COVER CONDITION.

VIRGIN SPINDLE HOLES. THE HIGH LUSTER VINYL BLANKS AT FIRST GLANCE OUT OF THE SLEEVE APPEAR UNUSUALLY PRISTINE AND TO HAVE NOT BEEN PLAYED, MUCH LESS TOUCHED, BEFORE NOW. UNDER BRIGHT ANGLED LIGHT AND ASSIDUOUS EXAMINATION A FEW LIGHT SURFACE RUB MARKS AND OR PAPER SLEEVE STORAGE IMPRESSIONS. SIDE FOUR WITH A LIGHT SURFACE RUB SCUFF MARK IN THE LAST TWO TRACKS ABOVE THE LABEL.

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