[Smokey consists of] good-natured, obliging performances by someone who lives up to his name. Smokey is the best possible description of Mr. Robinson's singing; it wafts. Exactly at the moment when you think he has come upon a musical idea or is about to really say something, vapor sets in. Sweet Harmony ought to be a good song, and perhaps it is, but Robinson shrouds it in spun sugar. I didn't mind a bit of it, as I listened, but then I didn't think very much about it afterward either.

Peter Reilly, "Popular Discs and Tapes: 'Smokey'," in Stereo Review (copyright © 1974 by Ziff-Davis Publishing Company), Vol. 32, No. 2, February, 1974, p. 96.