Cookin' with the Miracles Songwriting Credits by Smokey Robinson

Cookin' with the Miracles is the second studio album by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, released in 1962 on Tamla Records. The album is anchored by 'You've Really Got a Hold on Me,' one of Robinson's most enduring compositions, a slow, aching ballad that became a Motown standard and was covered by The Beatles on their 1963 album With the Beatles, cementing Robinson's reputation as a songwriter's songwriter across the Atlantic. Smokey Robinson wrote the bulk of the album's material, continuing the self-penned approach established on the debut. The record shows Robinson and the group refining their blend of doo-wop vocal interplay with emergent soul production, just as Berry Gordy's Motown operation was beginning to gain national traction. 'What's So Good About Goodbye' further demonstrated Robinson's ability to turn heartache into pop elegance.