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Deep in My Soul is Smokey Robinson's fifth solo album. It was released in 1977.

Deep in My Soul
Studio album by Smokey Robinson
Released	January 18, 1977
Recorded	1976
Genre	R&B
Label	Motown
Producer	Lawrence Brown, Michael B. Sutton, Elliot Willensky, Hal Davis, Jeffrey Bowen, Bobby Belle
Smokey Robinson chronology
Smokey's Family Robinson (1976) Deep in My Soul (1977) Big Time (1977)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	link
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[1]
The Village Voice	B+[2]

Critical reception

Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote:

"Smokey has a right to the romanticism that has saturated his solo career—ick with kick has always been his specialty—but I get more from the Big Time soundtrack than from Smokey's Family Robinson. And then there's this, in which various Motown hacks attempt to approximate the bright, direct style of a less mature Smokey and come up with four songs (two of which begin each four-cut side) that actually do so. Whereupon Smokey, pro that he is, sings them as if he wrote them himself."[1]

Track listing

1. "Vitamin U" (Lawrence Brown, Terri McFaddin) – 4:30
2. "There Will Come a Day (I'm Gonna Happen to You)" (Michael B. Sutton, Brenda Sutton, Kathy Wakefield) – 3:54
3. "It's Been a Long Time (Since I Been in Love)" (Elliot Willensky) – 3:43
4. "Let's Do The Dance of Life Together" (Elliot Willensky) – 3:46
5. "If You Want My Love" (Donald Charles Baldwin, Jeffrey Bowen) – 3:45
6. "You Cannot Laugh Alone" (Donald Charles Baldwin, Jeffrey Bowen) – 4:43
7. "In My Corner" (Victor Orsborn, Eric Robinson) – 4:43
8. "The Humming Song (Lost for Words)" (Bobby Belle, Art Posey, Josef Powell) – 3:29

Personnel

• Smokey Robinson – vocals

Technical

• Berry Gordy - executive producer
• Antonín Kratochvíl - photography

References

External links

• Deep in My Soul at Discogs (list of releases)

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