Make It Happen is a 1967 album by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles. It featured ballads such as the hit singles “The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage” and “More Love”, as well as the up-tempo “The Tears of a Clown” co-written by Stevie Wonder and his producer Hank Cosby.
Three years after the album’s release, “The Tears of a Clown” was issued as a single, and charted at #1 on both the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart. 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)”. Holland-Dozier-Holland contributed the good-times dance song “It’s a Good Feeling”. Smokey’s fellow Miracles Warren “Pete” Moore and Marv Tarplin collaborated with him on the songs “You Must Be Love” (a popular regional hit tune), and “The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage” (a Top 20 Hit) respectively, and all of The Miracles (except Claudette) co-wrote the up-tempo rocker “Dancing’s Alright”.
