The Tracks of My Tears My Tears" was a number 2 hit on the "Billboard" R&B chart, and it reached number 16 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. Belatedly released in the UK in 1969, it became a Top Ten hit that summer, reaching number 9 (the UK release was credited to "Smokey Robinson and the Miracles"). This song is considered to be among the finest recordings of The Miracles, and it sold over one million records within two years, making it The Miracles' fourth million-selling record. The Miracles can be seen performing "The Tracks of My Tears" on their 2006 Motown DVD release, "The Miracles'
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