| 词条 | If You Can Want |
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| name = If You Can Want | cover = | alt = | type = single | artist = Smokey Robinson & the Miracles | album = Special Occasion | B-side = When The Words From Your Heart Get Caught Up In Your Throat | released = February 8, 1968 | format = 7" single | recorded = Hitsville USA (Studio A): November 28, 1967 | studio = | venue = | genre = Soul/pop | length = 2:25 | label = Tamla T 54162 | writer = Smokey Robinson | producer = Smokey Robinson | prev_title = I Second That Emotion | prev_year = 1967 | next_title = Yester Love | next_year = 1968 }} "If You Can Want" is a 1968 single recorded by R&B group Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for Motown Records' Tamla label.[1] Written and produced by Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson, "If You Can Want" was the most successful of the three singles included on the group's 1968 album Special Occasion. This single just missed the U.S. Top 10, peaking at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States, and was a Top 5 R&B hit, peaking at number three on Billboard's R&B singles chart, and was also a minor hit in England, peaking at number 50 on the United Kingdom singles chart. The song's lyrics portray the narrator as a man in love with a woman who only views him as a casual friend. However, the narrator hopes that the woman will eventually come to appreciate his affections: If you can want,you can need, if you can need, you can care, if you can care, you can love; so if you want me, I'll be there. A variation of the last line was used in the chorus portion of the Spinners song "I'll Be Around" (1972). "If You Can Want" was the group's only major hit in 1968, and was performed by the Miracles on their 1st appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. Two other releases that year, "Yester Love" and "Special Occasion", missed the Billboard Hot 100's Top 20, beginning a lull in the Miracles' chart performance until the Top 10 success of "Baby, Baby Don't Cry" in spring 1969. The B-side, "When The Words From Your Heart Get Caught Up In Your Throat", was never released on a Miracles album and was only issued on CD in 1994, on The 35th Anniversary Collection. Personnel Credits:The Miracles
Other instrumentsThe Funk BrothersCover versionsThe Miracles' original hit recording of "If You Can Want" has inspired cover versions by the following artists:
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References1. ^ The Complete Motown Singles Vol 8: 1968 [CD liner notes]. New York: Hip-O Select/Motown/Universal Records. {{The Miracles}}{{The Miracles singles}}{{1960s-R&B-song-stub}}{{1960s-single-stub}} 6 : The Miracles songs|Tamla Records singles|Songs written by Smokey Robinson|1968 singles|Song recordings produced by Smokey Robinson|1968 songs |
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