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During the mid-60's, Smokey Robinson worked with fellow Miracle Ronnie White, and Motown guitarist Marv Tarplin. As the decade progressed, Bob Dylan referred to Robinson apparently without irony, as 'America's greatest living poet'.

Smokey's lyric-writing scaled new heights on ballads such as 'The Love I Saw In You Was Just A Mirage' and 'I Second That Emotion'. From 1967 onwards, Robinson was given individual credit on the Miracles' releases.

For the next two years, their commercial fortunes went into a slide, which was corrected when their 1965 recording of 'The Tracks Of My Tears' became a major hit in Britain in 1969, and the four-year old 'The Tears Of A Clown' achieved similar success on both sides of the Atlantic in 1970.