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Smokey Robinson and The Miracles is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of The Isley Brothers, Valerie Simpson, Diana Ross and the Supremes, The Supremes and Kim Carnes. Those roots explain a lot about how Smokey Robinson and The Miracles arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Four Tops, The Miracles, The Temptations and Smokey Robinson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Temptations, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Gladys Knight & the Pips, The Marvelettes and The Four Tops, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 51 connections around Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, reaching back through The Isley Brothers and forward to The Temptations. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Smokey Robinson and The Miracles connections
Smokey Robinson and The Miracles grew out of The Isley Brothers, Valerie Simpson, Diana Ross and the Supremes and The Supremes, shares an orbit with Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, The Four Tops, The Miracles and The Temptations, went on to shape The Temptations, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Gladys Knight & the Pips and The Marvelettes. 51 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Smokey Robinson and The Miracles
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