The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage

"The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage"
Single by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles
from the album Make It Happen[1]
B-side"Come Spy with Me"
ReleasedJanuary 27, 1967
RecordedHitsville USA (Studio A): November 11, 1966
GenreSoul, pop, psychedelic soul
Length2:59
LabelTamla
T 54145
Songwriter(s)Smokey Robinson
Marvin Tarplin
Producer(s)Smokey Robinson
Warren "Pete" Moore
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles singles chronology
"(Come 'Round Here) I'm the One You Need"
(1966) 		"The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage"
(1967) 		"More Love"
(1967)

"The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage" is a 1967 song recorded by the American R&B group The Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label. Written by Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Marv Tarplin and produced by Robinson, it is noted for being the first single to bill the group as "Smokey Robinson" & the Miracles,[2] a billing already present on the group's albums by this time. Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Pete Moore were the song's producers. [3]

  1. ^ "www.allmusic.com". allmusic.com. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  2. ^ Asanovic, Bosko; Rimmer, Dave & Goldberg, Marv. "Miracles discography". Soulful Kinda Music. Retrieved 2008-03-30
  3. ^ "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage / Come Spy with Me by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - RYM/Sonemic".