Soul music has lost another member. Singer Bobby Rogers, who was a member of the hit Motown group Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, died Sunday morning in his Southfield, Michigan home.
Along with Robinson, Claudette Rogers, Pete Moore, and Ronnie White, Bobby Rogers started Smokey Robinson & the Miracles in 1956. They had a string of hits including “Shop Around,” The Tracks of My Tears,” and “I Second That Emotion.” rogers also shared songwriting credit with Smokey Robinson on hits like the Temptations’ “The Way You Do The Things You Do” and The Contours’ “First I look At The Purse.”
Smokey Robinson released a statement, “Another soldier in my life has fallen. Bobby Rogers was my brother and a really good friend. 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.”
Bobby Rogers, Of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, Dead At 73 was originally published on theurbandaily.com