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The Temptations - The Temptin' Temptations Audio CD

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The Temptations Band: The Temptations
Title: The Temptin' Temptations
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Release Date: 1998-10-20
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Since I Lost My Baby 2: Girl's Alright with Me 3: Just Another Lonely Night 4: My Baby 5: You've Got to Earn It 6: Everybody Needs Love 7: Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue) 8: Don't Look Back 9: I Gotta Know Now 10: Born to Love You 11: I'll Be in Trouble 12: You're the One I Need

Recording Wise, They Were Never Better
Even those who didn't have "Temptation sing Smokey" and that's where "My Girl" came from. This is the album that all Temptation fans had. . The popularity of "Temptin Temptations" was really something. How do I know? I was there. I was there to hears some of the best music of our young lives "since I lost my baby", "Girl (why you wanna make me blue)", "girls alright with me", "don't look back" and what about the one's that were never released, "I gotta know now" and "everybody needs love". Although Gladys and the Pips recorded "everybody needs love", nobody can do it like Eddy Kendricks. "Temptin Temptations" the best Temptation album ever. . . . . . I promise.
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Lay back and let them tempt you
And even if it isn't packed with hits the way Sing Smokey was, it's even better. Easily one of the best '60's soul albums, its only real competition being I Never Loved a Man. Some great album tracks here: The Girl's All Right with Me; Just Another Lonely Night; You've Got to Earn It and I'll Be in Trouble are all every bit as good as the two singles (Since I Lost My Baby and Don't Look Back). This is a total classic, and I like (if not love) every song here. Don't even try to go without it. .


Time travel
A must for Temptatin fans. Listening to to The Temptin' Temptations is a cheap ticket back to first loves, weekend parties and the euphoria of youth. .


THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
DAVID AND EDDIE COULD PUSH AND PULL EACH OTHERS VOICE OR OCTAVE IN WHAT EVER DIRECTION ONE NEEDED THE OTHERS VOICE TO GO. WE WHO KNEW THEM CALLED THEM THE "VOICES", THUNDER AND LIGHTNING ACTUALLY. THEY HAD AN UNSPOKEN APPRECIATION FOR THE MUSIC AND THEIR LOVE OF SONG. EDDIE WAS WRITING TUNES AT THAT TIME AND HAS A FEW OF HIS OWN ON THIS ALBUM. THEY WERE AS CLOSE AS BLOOD BROTHERS BACK THEN. 1 FOR ALL AND ALL FOR 1. IT WAS AROUND THIS TIME THAT CORNELIUS GRANT BECAME KNOWN AS THE 6TH TEMP. IT WAS TIME OF COMRADERIE, FAMILY AND FRIENDSHIP. THEY WERE TRULY BLESSED. AND I IN RETURN WAS BLESSED TO BE IN THEIR COMPANY. .


An Aural Jewel
My favorite new beauty in this one was the shimmering "Born To Love You," which featured a trade-off lead vocal between Ruffin & Kendricks that pre-dated "You're My Everything" by nearly two years. Though at the time of its release in the fall of 1965, this album really only contained five tracks not heard before, it was such a splendid gathering of single hits and b-sides, there was no thinking twice about snapping it up. The single black mark (for me) against the 5-disc "Emperors Of Soul" masterpiece, is that it didn't carry this cut. Even Collectables eventually carried it as a 45 in the early 90s.

In his wonderful 1988 biography of the group, original member Otis Williams says he cringes every time he looks at this album cover. The five singers had their white suits in time for the photo, but not YET their white shoes! No problem, Otis - like the record label says, `It's what's in the grooves that count. '

It is truly great for us baby-boomers that this, as well as other original LP's of the group ("Meet," "Sing Smokey," "Gettin' Ready," "Lot O' Soul," et. al. ) are kept in print. My question is why is this respect only shown to the Temptations, among so many Motown greats? Just try and find The Supremes' "More Hits" with its original artwork, Brenda Holloway's "Every Little Bit Hurts," or "Four Tops Second Album. " Good luck.

Before I started this review, I'd just finished reading 30-some customer comments for the Supremes' "Ultimate Collection," which contained several complaints about the fact that the disc is mono. I'm convinced the complainers were people younger than 35. No one old enough to have listened, in side-by-side comparison to the stereo and mono versions of mid-60s Motown LPs would EVER complain about the availability of mono versions.

Which brings me to the one thing Motown could have done here and achieved absolute perfection. The 80-minute recording area of a CD would certainly have facilitated both mono and stereo versions of this LP (then we could ALL be happy), and all the other Temptations albums of the 60's. The Beach Boys implemented this idea with "Pet Sounds," and it worked.

Let's see it tried also with The Supremes' "Where," "More Hits," & "Symphony"; Gaye's "Moods," the Vandellas "Watch Out" & "Dance Party," and the Miracles "Going To A Go-Go. ".


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