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  • ‘Cruisin” To The Top: Smokey Robinson’s Slow-Burning Classic

    02/07/2025 3:30:23 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 4 replies
    Udiscovermusic ^ | February 6, 2025 | Paul Sexton
    It was the song that carried the Quiet Storm sound into the ’80s.When we think of Smokey Robinson‘s indelible imprint on our collective musical consciousness, our first instinct may be to celebrate his incredible achievements as the frontman of the Miracles and as a writer and producer beyond compare, for that group and so many fellow Motown superstars. But as he developed his solo career in the 1970s, he became one of the architects of a new sub-genre of smooth soul named after his 1975 hit “A Quiet Storm.” Then in 1979, that slow-jam style gave him his biggest...