Deep in My Soul

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Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Christgau's Record Guide	B+[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[1]
The Virgin Encyclopedia of R&B and Soul	[4]

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The Los Angeles Times wrote that "Robinson's singing is excellent, but he needs his own first-rate tunes to restore the Miracles sheen."^[5] Reviewing in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981), Robert Christgau wrote:

"Smokey has a right to the romanticism that has saturated his solo career—ick with kick has always been his specialty—but I get more from the Big Time soundtrack than from Smokey's Family Robinson. And then there's this, in which various Motown hacks attempt to approximate the bright, direct style of a less mature Smokey and come up with four songs (two of which begin each four-cut side) that actually do so. Whereupon Smokey, pro that he is, sings them as if he wrote them himself."^[3]

1. "Vitamin U" (Lawrence Brown, Terri McFaddin) – 4:30
2. "There Will Come a Day (I'm Gonna Happen to You)" (Michael B. Sutton, Brenda Sutton, Kathy Wakefield) – 3:54
3. "It's Been a Long Time (Since I Been in Love)" (Elliot Willensky) – 3:43
4. "Let's Do The Dance of Life Together" (Elliot Willensky) – 3:46
5. "If You Want My Love" (Donald Charles Baldwin, Jeffrey Bowen) – 3:45
6. "You Cannot Laugh Alone" (Donald Charles Baldwin, Jeffrey Bowen) – 4:43
7. "In My Corner" (Victor Orsborn, Eric Robinson) – 4:43
8. "The Humming Song (Lost for Words)" (Bobby Belle, Art Posey, Josef Powell) – 3:29

• Smokey Robinson – vocals

Technical

• Berry Gordy - executive producer
• Antonín Kratochvíl - photography