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Miracles founder Rogers dies at 73

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 03/5/2013 1:00 AM | Comments: 0

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -- Bobby Rogers, a founding member of Motown group The Miracles and a songwriting collaborator with Smokey Robinson, died Sunday at his suburban Detroit home. He was 73.

Motown Museum board member Allen Rawls said Rogers had been ill for several years.

Rogers formed the group in 1956 with cousin Claudette Rogers, Pete Moore, Ronnie White and Robinson. Their hits included Shop Around, You've Really Got a Hold on Me, The Tracks of My Tears, Going to a Go-Go, I Second That Emotion and The Tears of a Clown.

"Another soldier in my life has fallen. Bobby Rogers was my brother and a really good friend," Robinson said in a statement. "He and I were born on the exact same day in the same hospital in Detroit. I am really going to miss him. I loved him very much."

His voice can be heard on Marvin Gaye's What's Going On, with Rogers saying, "It's just a groovy party, man, I can dig it."

Rogers and The Miracles were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012. He was too ill to attend the ceremony.

-- The Associated Press

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 5, 2013 C2

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