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"The Tears of a Clown" is a song written by Hank Cosby, Smokey Robinson, and Stevie Wonder and originally recorded by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles for the Tamla Records label subsidiary of Motown, first appearing on the 1967 album Make It Happen.
As a result, Make It Happen was reissued as The Tears of a Clown in 1970. Stevie Wonder was a contributing writer on three of the album's songs, the aforementioned "The Tears of a Clown", "After You Put Back the Pieces (I'll Still Have a Broken Heart)", and "My Love Is Your Love (Forever)".
Also included is the group's number-one smash hit "The Tears of a Clown", which was also made available through the reissue of the 1967 Miracles LP Make It Happen as The Tears of a Clown. Both of these songs were also huge hits in the UK, reaching #11 and #1 respectively.
Robinson's departure plans however, were thwarted after the group's 1969 song "Baby Baby Don't Cry" hit the Billboard Pop Top 10, and when the Miracles' 1967 song, "The Tears of a Clown",(their fourth Grammy Hall of Fame-inducted hit) was released as a single in
‘Tears of a Clown’ by Smokey Robinson and The Miracles (1967) Written by Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson, and Henry Cosby. When Stevie Wonder first played the music to “Tears of a Clown ...
"The Tears of a Clown" Smokey Robinson & the Miracles Stevie Wonder, Hank Cosby: 1 1 1 1976: Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, #34 UK (reissue) 1979: The Beat, #6 UK "Still Water (Love)" The Four Tops: Frank Wilson: 11 4 10 1982: O'Bryan, #23 R&B 1971 "I Don't Blame You At All" Smokey Robinson & the Miracles 18 7 11 "Crazy About the La La La"
The 1970 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles hit "The Tears of a Clown" references Pagliacci in the lines "Just like Pagliacci did, I try to keep my sadness hid". An earlier song cowritten by Robinson, "My Smile Is Just a Frown Turned Upside," sung by Carolyn Crawford in 1964, had included the same line.
But Art the Clown takes the concept of enjoying homicidal sadism to new levels of sick-puppy insanity. The character is played, in all three “Terrifier” movies, by David Howard Thornton, an ...