What Love Has...Joined Together (album)
What Love Has...Joined Together is a 1970 album by R&B group Smokey Robinson & The Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label. A concept album consisting solely of six love songs, it charted at number 97 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, and reached the Top 10 of Billboard's R&B album chart, peaking at number 9. It was the first Miracles album to have no new songs; the recordings are all cover versions of songs written by noted composers, such as Stevie Wonder, Berry Gordy, Frank Wilson, Brenda Holloway and her sister Patrice Holloway, Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Marvin Gaye, The Beatles' John Lennon & Paul McCartney,, and Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers.
The Miracles performed a medley of this album's songs on a 1970 telecast of NBC's The Andy Williams Show. What Love Has...Joined Together features Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore and Ronnie White on the front cover, and Claudette Robinson on the back cover. Miracles member Marv Tarplin played guitar on this album, but was not featured on its cover.
Release
What Love Has....Joined Together was released on CD in 1992. In 2013, Motown released the album as a digital download to various online retailers.Reception
AllMusic called it "A stunning concept album that should have fared better". The New Yorker, in an article dated April 16, 2013, referred to this album as "A standout", and as "one of the rare jewels in the label's crown".Track listing
Side one
- "What Love Has Joined Together" 5:50
- "My Cherie Amour" 4:16
- "If This World Were Mine" 4:30
Side two
Personnel
The Miracles
- Smokey Robinson – lead vocals, production
- Claudette Robinson – lead vocals, backing vocals
- Bobby Rogers – backing vocals
- Pete Moore – backing vocals
- Ronnie White – backing vocals
- Marv Tarplin – guitar