The Miracles cofounder is dead
BobbyRogers
Entertainment, Music
March 4, 2013

The Miracles cofounder is dead

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 died about 6 a.m. in Southfield. 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.

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