Temptations - Temptations Live

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Free Music Notes for Temptations Live

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

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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