This episode shares its title with a song "The Tracks of My Tears" written by Smokey Robinson, Marvin Tarplin and Warren Moore (AKA "Pete" Moore) and
released by The Miracles in 1965. In truth, all three songwriters were performers in The Miracles, but the group also included Bobby Rogers and Claudette Robinson, Smokey's wife. The group was later to be known, more popularly, as Smokey Robinson & The Miracles.