The Tracks of My Tears Definitive Performances". The Miracles' recording of "The Tracks of My Tears" ranked at #50 on "Rolling Stone"'s The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time in 2004; the track was also a 2007 inductee into the Grammy Hall of Fame. On May 14, 2008, the track was preserved by the United States Library of Congress as an "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significance" to the National Recording Registry. The song "The Tracks of My Tears" was also awarded "The Award Of Merit" from The American Society of Composers, Authors,and Publishers (ASCAP) for Miracles members/composers Pete Moore, Marv Tarplin, and Smokey Robinson. Ranked
Flow, my tears Flow, my tears "Flow, my tears" is a lute song (specifically, an "ayre") by the accomplished lutenist and composer John Dowland (1563–1626). Originally composed as an instrumental under the name "Lachrimae pavane" in 1596, it is Dowland's most famous ayre, and became his signature song, literally as well as metaphorically: he would occasionally sign his name "Jo. Dolandi de Lachrimae". Like others of Dowland's lute songs, the piece's musical form and style are based on a dance, in this case the pavan. It was first published in "The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres of 2, 4 and 5 parts"