The Miracles

Released: October 29, 1963

Songwriter: Walter Kent Kim Gannon Buck Ram

Producer: Ronald White Smokey Robinson

[Verse 1]
I'll be home for Christmas
You can count on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree

[Verse 2]
Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love lights gleam
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams

[Interlude]
I always tell myself I'm going home for Christmas
But I never get there
And I find myself spending it all alone
And the loneliness gets so bad sometimes
I cry 'cause I can't take it
But this year, if I have to walk or crawl all the way
I'm gonna make it

[Verse 3]
Christmas Eve will find me
Where the love lights gleam
I'll be home for Christmas
If only in my dreams

The Miracles (also known as Smokey Robinson and the Miracles from 1965 to 1972) were an American rhythm and blues vocal group.

They were formed at school in Detroit in 1955 as The Five Chimes. In 1956 they changed their name to The Matadors, adding Claudette Rogers to the line-up. They were spotted by Berry Gordy at an audition in late 1957 and in February 1958 changed their name to The Miracles. Their first release, ‘Get A Job’ b/w ‘My Mama Done Told Me’, was issued via the End label that same month. Another single on End followed, and then one on Chess and Motown, before the group finally found a home on Tamla where they had a string of hits and Smokey established himself as a key songwriter for the label throughout the 1960s.

In late 1965 Berry Gordy decided to adjust the group’s name and they were billed thereafter as Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, until Smokey left the group in July 1972 (although the final Smokey Robinson & The Miracles single was not released until November). He was replaced by Billy Griffin, with the name being reverted back to The Miracles for the new line-up.

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