| What Love Has...Joined Together | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Smokey Robinson & the Miracles |
| Cover: | What Love Has...Joined Together (album).jpeg |
| Released: | April 28, 1970 |
| Recorded: | 1970 |
| Studio: | Hitsville USA, Detroit |
| Genre: | Soul |
| Length: | 27:36 |
| Label: | Tamla |
| Producer: | Smokey Robinson |
| Prev Title: | Four in Blue |
| Prev Year: | 1969 |
| Next Title: | A Pocket Full of Miracles |
| Next Year: | 1970 |
What Love Has...Joined Together is a 1970 album by R&B group Smokey Robinson & The Miracles on Motown Records' Tamla label. A concept album consisting solely of six short love songs, it charted at number 97 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart, and reached the Top 10 of Billboard's R&B album chart, peaking at number 9. It was the first Miracles album to have no new songs; the recordings are all cover versions of songs written by noted composers, such as Stevie Wonder ("My Cherie Amour"), Berry Gordy, Frank Wilson, Brenda Holloway and her sister Patrice Holloway ("You've Made Me So Very Happy"), Burt Bacharach and Hal David ("This Guy's in Love With You"), Marvin Gaye ("If This World Were Mine"), The Beatles' John Lennon & Paul McCartney, ("And I Love Her"), and Miracles members Smokey Robinson and Bobby Rogers ("What Love Has Joined Together").
The Miracles performed a medley of this album's songs on a 1970 telecast of NBC's The Andy Williams Show.[1] What Love Has...Joined Together features Miracles members Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore and Ronnie White on the front cover, and Claudette Robinson on the back cover. Miracles member Marv Tarplin played guitar on this album, but was not featured on its cover.
What Love Has....Joined Together was released on CD in 1992.
In 2013, Motown released this album as a digital download on Amazon, iTunes, and several other websites.
Allmusic Guide called it "A stunning concept album that should have fared better".[2] The New Yorker, in an article dated April 16, 2013, referred to this album as "A standout", and as "one of the rare jewels in the (Motown) label's crown".[3]