Music
Pete Moore
1938–2017 · bass singer, songwriter, vocal arranger, producer
Detroit-born bass singer and uncredited vocal arranger of the Miracles, co-writer of "The Tracks of My Tears", "Ooo Baby Baby" and "Love Machine".
- Born
Detroit, Michigan- Died
Las Vegas, Nevada
aged 79- Birth name
- Warren Thomas Moore
- Also known as
- Warren "Pete" Moore
- Detroit years
- 1938–1970s
- Field
- Music
01 / The Detroit story
The Detroit story
Moore met Smokey Robinson as a boy at a Detroit Public Schools music event, where he saw Robinson singing, and the two formed the group that became the Miracles. For decades he was its bass voice and, as he revealed only in 2006, the uncredited arranger of its vocal harmonies. He was the group's second most prolific writer after Robinson, co-writing "Ooo Baby Baby", "The Tracks of My Tears", "My Girl Has Gone" and "Going to a Go-Go" (whose opening percussion pattern was his idea), plus the Temptations' "It's Growing" and "Since I Lost My Baby" and Marvin Gaye's "Ain't That Peculiar". He also produced "Baby Baby Don't Cry". After Robinson left he led the Miracles with Billy Griffin, co-writing the 1975 number one "Love Machine". He was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame in Detroit in 2015 and died in Las Vegas on his 79th birthday.
Highlights
- Founding member and bass singer of the Miracles
- Co-wrote "The Tracks of My Tears" and "Ooo Baby Baby"
- Co-wrote the No. 1 hit "Love Machine" (1975)
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2012 with the Miracles
02 / Their Detroit places
Their Detroit places 2
Where they lived, worked, performed and liked to hang out. Closed and demolished places stay here too, because they are part of the city's history.
Recorded here · 1958–1972
Motown Museum
The Miracles, Motown's first successful group, recorded their hits in Studio A.
Performed here · 1960s
Graystone Ballroom
Demolished · 1922–1980
The Miracles were among the Motown acts who played the ballroom, which Berry Gordy bought in 1963. Demolished in 1980.