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"Shop Around" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles (1960)

Today's song is "Shop Around" by Smokey Robinson

Motown's 1st record to sell 1 million copies. Also the 1st Motown song in the Top 5. 



This is how we picture the song. Can you follow the lines with the song?



This is what we heard: 

Kinda vibrate-y. Shakey. Right after that it explodes and all the music is there. It stays loud and at one part gets quiet and goes right back up and does that a couple of times before the song ends. The song is kind of “hyper.”

This is how I drew the picture:

I drew my picture to match the way I heard the song. The blue is the sudden explosion at the beginning and the red and yellow lines represent how it stayed. Green zigzags are the low parts. The yellow line on the right side of the page is low to high.