| 词条 | City of Angels (album) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = City of Angels | type = studio | artist = The Miracles | cover = The Miracles City of Angels.jpg | alt = | released = September 17, 1975 | recorded = 1975 | venue = | studio = | genre = Soul, Disco | length = 51:47 | label = Tamla | producer = Freddie Perren, Pete Moore | prev_title = Don't Cha Love It | prev_year = 1975 | next_title = The Power Of Music | next_year = 1976 }}{{Album ratings | rev1 =AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}}[1] |rev2 = Christgau's Record Guide |rev2Score = B[2] }} City of Angels is an album by the Motown soul group The Miracles, released on Motown Records' Tamla label in September 1975. The group's fourth album recorded after replacing lead singer Smokey Robinson with Billy Griffin in 1972, City of Angels is a concept album, depicting of a man from "Anytown, U.S.A." who follows his estranged girlfriend Charlotte to Los Angeles, where she has gone in hopes of becoming a star. All of the tracks on the album were written by Billy Griffin and Miracles bass singer Pete Moore. Freddie Perren and Moore served as the album's producers. The album's first single, "Love Machine", peaked at number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 on March 6, 1976, and was a multi-million-selling Platinum single,[3] becoming the most successful single of The Miracles' career. Its success coincided with the rise of the disco craze of the late 1970s. Another song on City of Angels, "Ain't Nobody Straight in L.A.", caused controversy due to addressing the subject of homosexuality: "Ain't nobody straight in L.A./It seems that everybody there is gay."[4] Life imitates artThe album's cover depicted The Miracles' "star" on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame, although the group actually did not have such a star back in 1976. However, life eventually did imitate art, as The Miracles were honored with just such a star in Hollywood on March 20, 2009.[5][6] City of Angels reached 33 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States, and peaked at number 29 on the Billboard Black Albums chart.[7] The Miracles' City Of Angels was also a Platinum album with over one million records sold.[3]The song "Overture" from that album, co-written by Moore and Billy Griffin, was used as the official theme on Radio Monte Carlo in France from 1978 to 1979.[8] While not available on CD in the U.S. until more recently, City of Angels was available in its entirety on the Motown import release, The Miracles – The Essential Collection.[9] In 2010, Motown released City Of Angels album on CD in the U.S. for the first time – on Hip-O Select's "Motown Select" website, with the extended 12 inch version of "Love Machine" as a bonus track. Along with a never-before released essay by writer David Nathan it included commentary by Miracles Pete Moore and Billy Griffin, the album's composers.[10] LegacyRapper/producer Danny! reinterpreted the plot of "Poor Charlotte" for his 2006 album Charm.[11] Track listingAll songs written by William Griffin and Warren "Pete" Moore. Side one
PersonnelThe Miracles
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References1. ^{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen|title=City of Angels- The Miracles|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/r1727860/review|publisher=All Music|accessdate=15 June 2012}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|authorlink=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=Rock Albums of the Seventies|publisher=Ticknor & Fields|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: M|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=M&bk=70|accessdate=March 8, 2019|via=robertchristgau.com}} 3. ^1 {{cite web |url=http://www.gbelv.com/pete_moore_awards.html |title=WBMM Pete Moore Awards |publisher=Gbelv.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-09 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219232952/http://www.gbelv.com/pete_moore_awards.html |archivedate=2012-02-19 |df= }} 4. ^{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen|title=City of Angels- The Miracles|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/r67495|publisher=Billboard|accessdate=15 June 2012}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.life.com/image/85535788 |title=LIFE |publisher=LIFE |date= |accessdate=2012-02-09}} 6. ^{{cite web|title=The Miracles Hollywood Star|url=http://www.varley.net/images%20-%202007/The%20Miracles%20Hollywood%20Star.jpg|publisher=Varley|accessdate=June 15, 2012}} 7. ^{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen|title=City of Angels- The Miracles|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/r67495|publisher=All Music|accessdate=15 June 2012}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gbelv.com/pete_moore.html |title=WBMM Warren "Pete" Moore |publisher=Gbelv.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-09}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00005Q8UD |title=The Miracles, The Essential Collection: The Miracles: Music |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2012-02-09}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.hip-oselect.com/scr.public.product.asp?product_id=7C9A78F7-6406-4ABF-8501-5CF611A506F3&cat_id=9BE6C651-2C04-4F9B-A867-99626310086F |title=HIPO |publisher=Hip-oselect.com |date=2010-01-29 |accessdate=2012-02-09}} 11. ^{{cite web|last=Richardson|first=Mark|title=Danny!: Biography|url=http://www.artistdirect.com/artist/bio/danny/3560805|publisher=Artistdirect|accessdate=30 June 2012}} 12. ^{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p24593/charts-awards/billboard-albums|pure_url=yes}}|title=The Miracles US albums chart history|publisher=allmusic.com|accessdate=2011-06-21}} 13. ^{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p24593/charts-awards/billboard-singles|pure_url=yes}}|title=The Miracles US singles chart history|publisher=allmusic.com|accessdate=2011-06-21}} External links
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