I've been carefully ranking my music collection in iTunes. I reserved five stars for my all time favourite songs, songs that changed my life, songs that I think of when I think of major iconic musicians. After living for almost 35 years there are 40 five star songs in my collection. I'm not sure how many three and four star songs I have collected, but I've reserved five stars for the best of the best. When I started using Last.fm I got the idea to listen to all my five star songs and 'love' them. Having transfered that meta info to Last.fm I could then access it using their API and a bunch of PHP code and make this, my latest greatest mashup.
William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. (born February 19, 1940) is an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter. Robinson is noted for being one of the primary figures associated with the Motown record label, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy. As both a member of Motown group The Miracles and a solo artist, Robinson recorded seventy Top 40 hits for Motown between 1959 and 1990, and also served as the company's Vice President from 1961 to 1988.
Tracks of my Tears is one of my favourite songs of all time. I am not always so sure what Last.fm users are thinking when they tag. Last.fm seems to think Smokey Robinson and the Miracles The Miracles Eddie Kendricks The Manhattans The Spinners are artists similar to Smokey Robinson
I am not the only one who is a fan of Smokey Robinson as many people are tweeting:
Of course some people just should not be tweeting. If you feel the need to share this mashup with your social network... Tweet Or you just like to show your love for Smokey Robinson
Enough with the reading, try some listening. Perhaps you are interested in adding this to your collection.