DEF: Smokey Robinson “Cruisin'”

After his successful career with The Miracles, Detroit-born singer Smokey Robinson embarked on a solo career in the 1970s that would eventually produce four Top 10 hits on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart. All four of those Top 10 hits came in the 1980s, starting with “Cruisin’,” which began the decade in the Top 20 and, on yesterday’s date in 1980, climbed to a peak position of number 4, where it would remain for four weeks.

“Cruisin'” by Smokey Robinson is today’s Daily Eighties Flashback.