Temptations Live

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Temptations Live
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Artist: Temptations
Edition: Music CD
Format: Extra tracks, Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 1999-05-18
Music Label: Motown
Soundtracks:
  1. Introduction - Scott Regen
  2. Medley: Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)-he Girl's Alright With Me-'ll Be In Trouble-I Want A Love I Can See
  3. What Love Has Joined Together
  4. My Girl
  5. Yesterday/What Now My Love
  6. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
  7. Group Introduction
  8. I Wish You Love
  9. Ain't Too Proud To Beg
  10. Old Man River
  11. Get Ready
  12. Fading Away
  13. My Baby
  14. You'll Lose A Precious Love
  15. Baby, Baby I Need You
  16. Don't Look Back
  17. The Way You Do The Things You Do

Free Music Notes for Temptations Live

Free Music Review: Their first and best live album
Hit: 5 Stars

It was still winter-ish, cold and rainy in Philadelphia as I remember, when I first bought this album (originally Gordy 921) the month I turned 13. That would seem to jibe with its stated of release date of March 6, 1967. For hardcore fans of the group, perhaps the most pertinent piece of information is that this was the Only live album done by the group while David Ruffin was still a member. The LP version never stated anywhere on it where this recording was made, but its little surprise now to learn it was Detroit's `Roostertail'; you could always tell by the interplay of performers and audience here that the group was `at home.'

Further, note that fully six Temptation titles here: "The Girl's Alright With Me," "What Love Has Joined Together," "Fading Away," "You'll Lose A Precious Love," "Baby Baby I Need You," and "Don't Look Back" were all technically B-sides to the group's hit singles. However, the audiences' knowing and welcoming response to the start of each and all of them is perhaps the most enduring proof one could want that every Temptations record, at least up to 1967, was a Double-Sided hit. Starting with "Temptations Sing Smokey" in 1965, EVERY Temptations album with Ruffin in the group went to No. 1 on the R&B album charts, as well as quite a few others after he left.

This also is an audience that contributes significantly to the show. All these years later, it can still goose-bump my arms to hear the way female fans let out the startling screams when bass man Melvin Franklin comes in on his first lead line of "Ol' Man River." You just never forget that moment of the record, and it happens yet again when Melvin drops in his signature line in "You'll Love A Precious Love."

Around this same time, Motown also put out live albums on the Four Tops and Martha & the Vandellas, and while each of them have their moments, neither is as consistently and excellently listenable as this one. Get it.

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This rough-hewn 1966 club date finds the original Temptations in their prime, complete with hordes of screaming girls. A couple of Berry Gordy's beloved adult-crossover standards slow the flow, but ultimately the energy, the voices, and songs such as "My Girl," "What Love Has Joined Together," and an extended, testifying "Don't Look Back" can't be stopped. A valuable reissue. --Rickey Wright

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