I'll Try Something New

I'll Try Something New
Studio album by The Miracles
Released	July 1962
Studio	Hitsville USA, Detroit
Genre	Soul
Label	Tamla TM-230
Producer	Berry Gordy, Jr. Smokey Robinson
The Miracles chronology
Cookin' with The Miracles (1961) I'll Try Something New (1962) Christmas with The Miracles (1963)
Singles from I'll Try Something New
"What's So Good About Goodbye" Released: December 14, 1961 "I'll Try Something New" Released: April 9, 1962

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I'll Try Something New is the third Tamla (Motown) album by The Miracles. The title track was an important early single for the group, featuring Smokey Robinson's lead voice, a chorus led by his wife Claudette and an orchestra of strings. Smaller hits like "What's So Good About Goodbye" and "I've Been Good To You" are included, plus three covers of the easy listening standards "I've Got You Under My Skin" written by Cole Porter, "On the Street Where You Live" from the Broadway musical My Fair Lady and "Speak Low" by Ogden Nash and Kurt Weill, on which both Smokey and Claudette Robinson sing lead. I'll Try Something New also features a rare lead by Miracles baritone Ronnie White on "A Love That Can Never Be", and a lead by Claudette Robinson on "He Don't Care About Me".

This album is one of the very few Miracles albums to feature the complete original six-member group lineup on its cover, including Marv Tarplin and Claudette Rogers Robinson, along with Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Ronnie White, and Pete Moore.

Track listing

All lead vocals by Smokey Robinson except where indicated

Side one

1. "I'll Try Something New" (Smokey Robinson)
2. "What's So Good About Goodbye" (Robinson)
3. "He Don't Care About Me" (Robinson) (lead: Claudette Robinson)
4. "A Love That Can Never Be" (Robert Bateman, Janie Bradford, Popcorn Wylie) (lead: Ronnie White)
5. "I've Been Good To You" (Robinson)

Side two

1. "Speak Low" (Kurt Weill, Nash Ogden) (lead: Smokey & Claudette Robinson)
2. "On the Street Where You Live" (Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner)
3. "If Your Mother Only Knew" (Robinson, Mickey Stevenson)
4. "I've Got You Under My Skin" (Cole Porter)
5. "This I Swear, I Promise" (Robinson, Bradford)

Personnel

The Miracles

• Smokey Robinson, Ronnie White, Claudette Robinson – lead vocals
• Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers, Smokey Robinson, Warren "Pete" Moore, Claudette Robinson – background vocals
• Marv Tarplin – guitarist

Other credits

• The Funk Brothers – instrumentation

Producers

• Berry Gordy, Jr., producer
• William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr., producer

Releases

• While not reissued on CD until 2009, I'll Try Something New is available as a digital download through the iTunes Store.
• The Miracles' I'll Try Something New and four other Miracles albums were re-released on CD for the first time as part of the 2009 Motown 50th Anniversary limited edition CD release: The Miracles – Depend On Me: The Early Albums.^[2]
• In 2013 The Miracles' I'll Try Something New album was given an individual (non-compilation) CD release for the first time.^[3]

References

Amazon Customer Review The Miracles "I'll Try Something New" CD

The Miracles
Smokey Robinson Ronnie White Pete Moore Bobby Rogers Claudette Robinson Marv Tarplin Billy Griffin Donald Griffin Carl Cotton Mark Scott Dave Finley Sydney Justin Alphonse Franklin Tee Turner Pre-Miracles: Emerson "Sonny" Rogers James Grice Clarence Dawson
Production	Berry Gordy Smokey Robinson Pete Moore
Studio albums	Hi... We're The Miracles (1961) Cookin' with The Miracles (1961) I'll Try Something New (1962) The Fabulous Miracles (1963) The Miracles Doin' Mickey's Monkey (1963) I Like It Like That (1964) Going to a Go-Go (1965) Away We a Go-Go (1966) Make It Happen (The Tears of a Clown) (1967) Special Occasion (1968) Time Out For Smokey Robinson & the Miracles (1969) Four in Blue (1969) What Love Has Joined Together (1970) A Pocket Full Of Miracles (1970) One Dozen Roses (1971) Flying High Together (1972) Renaissance (1973) Do It Baby (1974) City of Angels (1975)
Live albums	The Miracles Recorded Live on Stage (1963) Smokey Robinson & The Miracles LIVE! (1969) Smokey Robinson & The Miracles: 1957-1972 (1972)
Other albums	Christmas with The Miracles (1963)
Compilations	Greatest Hits: From the Beginning (1965) Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 (1968) Anthology (1974) Anthology '86 (1986) Anthology: The Best of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (1995) The Ultimate Collection (1998) Ooo Baby Baby: The Anthology (2002) Depend On Me: The Early Albums (2009)
Singles (US/UK Top Twenty singles)	"Shop Around" "You've Really Got a Hold on Me"/"Happy Landing" "Mickey's Monkey" "Ooo Baby Baby" "The Tracks of My Tears" "My Girl Has Gone" "Going to a Go-Go" "(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need" "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" "I Second That Emotion" "If You Can Want" "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" "The Tears of a Clown" "I Don't Blame You At All" "Do It Baby" "Love Machine"
Videography	The Definitive Performances (1963–1987) (2006)
Discography	Albums Songs
Related articles	Motown Records List of cover versions of The Miracles songs
Book:The Miracles