| After All | |
| Artist: | The Miracles |
| Album: | Hi... We're the Miracles |
| Released: | June 1961 |
| Recorded: | Hitsville USA
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| Genre: | Doo-wop |
| Length: | 2:37 |
| Label: | Tamla |
| Producer: | Berry Gordy, Jr. |
| After All | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Supremes |
| B-Side: | Unknown |
| Released: | 1961 (unreleased) 2000 |
| Recorded: | Tamla (Studio B); August 1960 |
| Genre: | Doo-wop |
| Length: | 2:46 |
| Label: | Tamla T 54045 |
| Producer: | Berry Gordy, Jr.
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| Prev Title: | Tears of Sorrow |
| Prev Year: | 1960 |
| Next Title: | I Want a Guy |
| Next Year: | 1961 |
| After All | |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | The Marvelettes |
| Album: | Return of the Marvelettes |
| A-Side: | Marionette |
| Released: | 1970 |
| Recorded: | Hitsville USA, Golden World; 1970 |
| Genre: | Soul |
| Length: | 3:20 |
| Label: | Motown |
| Producer: | Smokey Robinson |
| Prev Title: | That's How Heartaches are Made |
| Prev Year: | 1969 |
| Marionette | |
| Title2: | After All |
| Next Title: | A Breathtaking Guy |
| Next Year: | 1971 |
"After All" is a 1960 song written by Smokey Robinson and originally recorded and released by The Miracles[1] on the Tamla label. It was first recorded as an unreleased single by The Supremes for Tamla; it was supposed to be their first single but it was canceled in favor of "I Want a Guy", and their cover wasn't released until it appeared on the 2000 box set, The Supremes. The song is noted for both groups' unusual choices for leads. For the Miracles' version it serves as a rare lead for Claudette Rogers Robinson, instead of the group’s main lead, Claudette's husband, Smokey Robinson. In the Supremes' case it is their only single to feature Barbara Martin singing on lead vocals (although she does have a spoken line during the song "(He's) Seventeen"). Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, and Diana Ross sing verses, and Martin sings the bridge (usually Ballard or Ross was given the lead on the group's recordings at that time). "After All" was also later covered by The Marvelettes, in the early 1970s, with group member Wanda Young Rogers as lead. (There's a connection to the two previous groups in that Wanda Young was the wife of Miracles member Bobby Rogers, and she was the only member of The Marvelettes on the song—as with the late-1960s singles of The Supremes, The Andantes served as background singers.) Their version appears on the album The Return of the Marvelettes,[2] and later became the group's belated final single (it failed to chart).
The Miracles version
The Supremes version
The Marvelettes version