I second that emotion
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First charting as a hit for Smokey Robinson and the Miracles on the Tamla/ Motown label in 1967, 'I Second That Emotion' was later a hit single for the group duet Diana Ross & the Supremes and The Temptations, also on the Motown label. The whole song winds up being an open-ended invitation, an offer to leave the past where it belongs and give monogamy a try. ' I Second That Emotion ' is a 1967 song written by Smokey Robinson and Al Cleveland. If Robinson winds up getting the girl, we don’t get to hear about it. Uriel Jones, who would go on to play drums on Motown classics like “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” and Stevie Wonder’s “For Once In My Life,” adds a funky backbeat, and the Miracles fill every chorus with thick vocal harmonies, almost as though Robinson called in his buddies to help set the girl straight. Still, “I Second That Emotion” marches to the beat of its own drum, thanks to three stanzas of crafty doo-wop poetry and one punny one-liner - a malapropism, if you want to get technical - that never really loses its novelty appeal.Ī smooth singer, Robinson relies on the Funk Brothers’ punchy horns and Marv Tarplin’s electric guitar to help emphasize his most important lines. During “I Second That Emotion,” the narrator puts his foot down, refusing to be strung along by a woman who prefers the ease of a one-night stand to the challenge of “a lifetime of devotion.” It’s a tale as old as time, and Robinson certainly wasn’t the first musician to sing about it. Smokey Robinson - I Second That Emotion (Letras y cancin para escuchar) - Maybe you want to give me kisses sweet / But only for one night with no repeat. This time, Robinson wrote about a difficult kind of love, the kind that burns brightly one moment and goes unrequited the next. Its basically a misuse of verbage from the Town Hall form of voting, also used in many clubs and other organizations, where. Love is something that’s here to stay, I hope, and that’s why I choose it as my subject matter the great majority of the time.”
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“You can write about cars, or political situations, or dances or something like that,” Robinson told Performing Songwriter more than 30 years later, “but those subjects, pretty soon, become passé. “I second that motion,” Cleveland attempted to say, but what came out of his mouth was something slightly different: “I second that emotion.” It was just an extra syllable, a slip of the tongue, but it helped spark one of the most enduring hits in the Motown catalog. After browsing the racks for awhile, Robinson suggested they go somewhere else. With Christmas just a few weeks away, the guys wanted to put their money to good use. Robinson was riding high on the success of Going to a Go-Go, a blockbuster album that spawned four Top 20 hits for the Miracles, and Cleveland was flush with cash after writing a few popular tunes for Gene Pitney. It had been a successful year for both songwriters. During the final weeks of 1966, Smokey Robinson joined his friend Al Cleveland at a Detroit department store.