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, the Policeman Said someone I admired and looked up to, and I knew he had always wanted one of his works to be adapted. One day when I came to visit him he jumped up and grabbed this manuscript and said 'I want to give you something, but I don't have anything, so I'm going to give you this manuscript, and someday its gonna be worth a lot of money.'" The "Phoenix" continues, "It was a draft of "Flow My Tears", and as Hartinian discovered when she sat down to adapt the book, it contained many passages that had been cut from the