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The Temptations - "The Temptations - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1" Audio CD

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Title: "The Temptations - Greatest Hits, Vol. 1"
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Release Date: 1998-02-03
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Way You Do the Things You Do 2: My Girl 3: Ain't Too Proud to Beg 4: Don't Look Back 5: Get Ready 6: Beauty Is Only Skin Deep 7: Since I Lost My Baby 8: Girl's Alright with Me 9: My Baby 10: It's Growing 11: I'll Be in Trouble 12: Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)

Gordy 919
The CD pictured has the exact vinyl record tracks in Lp order, but the orignal Gordy (Berry Gordy) unique to Motown cover and reverse artwork does not have the black and white back cover Lp artwork featuring The Temptations in step, a wonderful image of Motown talent at work. There seems to be two different Motown CDs for The Temptations Greatest Hits. There's another Motown CD with the exact full Lp picturesleeve artwork, the same 12 tracks, the same Motown sound, but with complete Lp artwork.
Amazon and other references suggest the same release date for the Motown CD, February 3, 1998. The Berry Gordy Lp art is some of the best American Lp artwork I've seen. The artwork matches the Motown sound, and has sold in the billions- worldwide.
Check resources for both CDs. You can't go wrong with Motown recordings .


Cream of the "Smokey" years

Even up to 1966 it could be argued that 45s were still the coin of the realm when it came to pop and soul music. This album is so perfect it beggars one's command of English to find fresh praise. So when this showed up - just in time for Christmas - in record stores late that year it was one of the best albums Motown ever issued exactly because it was ALL 45s. It gathered every Temptations single from "The Way You Do The Things You Do" (January 1964) to "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" (August 1966). Although a couple of significant early Norman Whitfield productions appear, this first `Greatest Hits' basically represents the period when The Temptations `belonged' to Smokey Robinson.

It is, by far, the one to have for those folks who'd prefer to duck the Temptations `relevant' and `psychedelic' period: Cloud Nine, Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down, Psychedelic Shack, et. al. Don't misunderstand me; I love that later stuff too, just fine. They are still funky jams. But it should be admitted that at least lyrically those later, specialized tunes, have aged poorly. Having "the month of May, when it's cold outside" because you're passionately in love sounds just as fresh in 2003 as it did in January 1965. On the other hand, "incense in the air, peace signs hangin' everywhere" conjure images that are certainly relics today.

This first volume of "Greatest Hits" was released on the Gordy label, no. 919. The original liner notes were written by Bill Cosby in which he states three things he believes improve with time: "a good tobacco, a woman, and The Temptations' performance. " I guess he was a genius even then.

Just between you and me though, I'd trade away 10 factory sealed copies of the CD of it for one VG+ original mono vinyl pressing from 1966 with the `script' Gordy label. What can I tell ya? - I'm a purist.


Greatness immortalized, priced right, priceless.
The CD is priced right, and yet, priceless. This early Temptations Greatest Hits collection not only includes power singles like "My Girl" and "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" from the original five Tempts--Paul, Eddie, Otis, David Ruffin and Melvin--but also some of their lesser known hits favored by some of us who had been with them from the beginning, like the smooth "Don't Look Back" and "I'll Be in Trouble". For the budget impaired like myself, this and the Vol. 2 collection will help me acheive Temptations nirvana until I can work up to the "Emperors of Soul" collection.


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