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The Temptations - The Ultimate Collection Audio CD

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The Temptations Band: The Temptations
Title: The Ultimate Collection
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Release Date: 1997-03-25
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Way You Do the Things You Do 2: My Girl 3: It's Growing 4: Since I Lost My Baby 5: Don't Look Back 6: Get Ready 7: Ain't Too Proud to Beg 8: (I Know) I'm Losing You 9: All I Need 10: You're My Everything 11: Angel Doll 12: I Wish It Would Rain 13: Cloud Nine 14: I Can't Get Next to You 15: Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today) 16: Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) 17: Papa Was a Rollin' Stone 18: Shakey Ground 19: Treat Her Like a Lady 20: Error of Our Ways 21: My Girl [Acappella][Excerpt]

Ultimate Collection of The Temptations
What a blend of voices in that era. This CD is so good, it really is a collection of The Temptations best ever.


Best of The Best
I'm so glad that I found it. I looked for this Cd for awhile. I have enjoyed every second of hearing all those old Temptation hits. Gold is the proper word for this CD.


The Ultimate Collection
Many of the songs are in
my record collection of days gone bye. What a great collection!! The music is fun and uplifting, I enjoy the
vocals and the melody combination on this disc. My purchase was prompted when I
watched the movie about the Temptations. As I drive to work I listen to
the Cd everyday!!!! It is great way to start my day!!!!!


Linda Rozner.


Something is Missing
. I love the CD, but it is inexcusable for not having "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" and "Psychedelic Shack" on it.


What great music. . . .
Since I gave up my old vinyl collection, I have not had any Temptations' CDs in my collection. Recently, an Amazon friend reviewed this book. That review just mentioned impelled me to begin adding some of the group's music to the set of CDs that I own.

Just got the CD and is it glorious! Obviously, one CD will not hold all of the best music of this group. However, what appears here is pretty terrific. From 1964, "The Way You Do the Things You Do" and "My Girl"; from 1972, "Just My Imagination (Running away with Me)" and, maybe, my all-time favorite work, "Pap Was a Rolling Stone"; from 1994, "Error of Our Ways. "

A few examples of their work. . .

The sunny "My Girl. " A cheerful instrumental introduction followed by opening lines such as:

"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day;
When it's cold outside, I got the month of May. "

Why? "My girl. " A nice uptempo, upbeat tune, something that the Temptations could do so well.

Of course, more lugubrious feelings can be elicited as well. Take "Just My Imagination (Running away with Me). " The singer speaks of the joy of having a wonderful girl"

". . . I watch her as she passes by.
I say to myself, I'm such a lucky guy.
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true. "

But the reality?

"It was just my imagination, running away with me. "

Good instrumentals and fine vocal backing. One of the classics among all Temptations' songs. The Rolling Stones did a nice cover of this, but this version is the "real deal. "

Then, my personal favorite of all their oeuvre, "Pap Was a Rolling Stone. " A 2 minute introduction, as funky as one could wish, with wailing horns and an hypnotic beat before vocals come into play. The first lines:

"It was the third of September,
A day I'll always remember. . .
That was the day that my Daddy died. "

This is the story of a person being apart from a father and hearing lots of bad things about him. Then asking his mom why. Her answer?

"Papa was a rolling stone,
Wherever he laid his hat was his home. "

Song after song. These bring memories flooding back as I recalled hearing some of these songs for the first time when they were first released. Want to know something about this group? This is a good starting point.


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