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The Temptations were the greatest of the Motown groups, and for a label that also had the Four Tops and the Supremes, that’s really saying something. Blessed with a succession of great singers like Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, and Dennis Edwards, any of whom could have easily fronted their own group, the Temptations racked up countless hits between 1961 and 1971, helped immeasurably by Motown's astounding songwriting stable. Songs like “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” “Since I Lost My Baby,” “Get Ready,” “Ain’t Too Pround to Beg,” “(I Know) I’m Losing You,” “I Wish It Would Rain,” “Cloud Nine,” “I Can’t Get Next to You,” “Psychedelic Shack,” and “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)” are enduring classics that still sound fresh and vital all these years later. This lavish box set, released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Temptations' first single in 1961, collects all of the group’s singles from Motown Records between then and 1971 on three discs, and it’s an amazing legacy, with classic song after classic song rolling by one after the other, the essential playlist of one of the greatest singing groups in the history of pop.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
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William Stevenson, ComposerLyricist - Otis Williams, ComposerLyricist - Andre Williams, Producer - The Temptations, MainArtist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer
℗ 1961 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Stevenson, ComposerLyricist - Andre Williams, Producer - The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Kendricks, ComposerLyricist - William Mickey Stevenson, Producer
℗ 1961 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Berry Gordy Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - Otis Williams, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - Alfred Ellis, ComposerLyricist - Melvin Franklin, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1961 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Berry Gordy Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist
℗ 1961 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Berry Gordy Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist
℗ 1962 The Motown Record Company LP
Berry Gordy Jr., ComposerLyricist - Otis Williams, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Kendricks, ComposerLyricist - Berry Gordy, Producer
℗ 1962 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Devora Brown, ComposerLyricist - Clarence Paul, Producer - The Pirates, MainArtist
℗ 1962 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Clarence Paul, Producer, ComposerLyricist - The Pirates, MainArtist
℗ 1962 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Berry Gordy Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist
℗ 1962 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1962 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1963 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Robinson, Jr., ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Richard Street, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1963 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Berry Gordy Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer
℗ 1966 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Berry Gordy Jr., Producer - Janie Bradford, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer - Norman Whitfield, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Robert Rogers, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Berry Gordy Jr., Producer, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer
℗ 1966 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Kendricks, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ronald White, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Ronnie White, Producer
℗ 1964 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1964 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Warren Moore, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Robert Rogers, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Warren Moore, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
William Robinson, Jr., ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer - Cornelius Grant, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Warren Moore, ComposerLyricist - Robert Rogers, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ronald White, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1965 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Warren Moore, ComposerLyricist - Robert Rogers, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Edward Holland Jr., ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Marvin Tarplin, ComposerLyricist - Warren Moore, ComposerLyricist - Ronald White, ComposerLyricist - Robert Rogers, ComposerLyricist - The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Cornelius Grant, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Frank Wilson, Producer, ComposerLyricist - R. Dean Taylor, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1967 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Ivy Joe Hunter, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1967 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Rodger Penzabene, ComposerLyricist - Cornelius Grant, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1967 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1966 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Holland, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1967 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - SMOKEY ROBINSON, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Eddie Kendricks, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1967 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Otis Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Kendricks, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Paul Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Rodger Penzabene, ComposerLyricist - Melvin Franklin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1967 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gordy, ComposerLyricist - Allen Story, ComposerLyricist - Henry Cosby, Producer - Otis Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Kendricks, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Paul Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - David Ruffin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Margaret Johnson, ComposerLyricist - Melvin Franklin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1967 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Gordy, ComposerLyricist - Allen Story, ComposerLyricist - Henry Cosby, Producer - The Temptations, MainArtist - Margaret Johnson, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1967 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Otis Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Kendricks, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Paul Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Rodger Penzabene, ComposerLyricist - Melvin Franklin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1968 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Otis Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Kendricks, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Paul Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Melvin Franklin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1968 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Otis Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Kendricks, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Paul Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - David Ruffin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Barbara Neely, ComposerLyricist - Melvin Franklin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1968 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
The Temptations, MainArtist - Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1968 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Otis Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - The Temptations, MainArtist - Eddie Kendricks, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Barrett Strong, ComposerLyricist - Paul Williams, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Norman Whitfield, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Dennis Edwards, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Dennis Coffey, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Melvin Franklin, Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Kenneth "Spider Webb" Rice, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Unel Jones, Drums, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1968 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
The Temptations were the greatest of the Motown groups, and for a label that also had the Four Tops and the Supremes, that’s really saying something. Blessed with a succession of great singers like Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, and Dennis Edwards, any of whom could have easily fronted their own group, the Temptations racked up countless hits between 1961 and 1971, helped immeasurably by Motown's astounding songwriting stable. Songs like “The Way You Do the Things You Do,” “Since I Lost My Baby,” “Get Ready,” “Ain’t Too Pround to Beg,” “(I Know) I’m Losing You,” “I Wish It Would Rain,” “Cloud Nine,” “I Can’t Get Next to You,” “Psychedelic Shack,” and “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)” are enduring classics that still sound fresh and vital all these years later. This lavish box set, released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Temptations' first single in 1961, collects all of the group’s singles from Motown Records between then and 1971 on three discs, and it’s an amazing legacy, with classic song after classic song rolling by one after the other, the essential playlist of one of the greatest singing groups in the history of pop.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
About the album
- 3 disc(s) - 81 track(s)
- Total length: 03:55:38
- Main artists: The Temptations
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UNI - MOTOWN
- Genre: Soul/Funk/R&B Soul
© 2011 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc. This Compilation ℗ 2011 Motown Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
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