Anthology-The Best of The Temptations [Original recording reissued]

Temptations | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 23, 1995)
• Original Release Date: 1995
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B000001A96
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (51 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,439 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #48 in Music > R&B > Classic R&B
  • #77 in Music > R&B > Motown

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Way You Do the Things You Do

2. I'll Be in Trouble

3. The Girl's Alright with Me

4. Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)

5. My Girl

6. It's Growing

7. What Love Has Joined Together

8. Who's Lovin' You

9. Since I Lost My Baby

10. You've Got to Earn It

See all 26 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Cloud Nine

2. I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

3. Runaway Child, Running Wild

4. Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down

5. I Can't Get Next to You

6. Psychedelic Shack

7. Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)

8. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)

9. Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are?)

10. Papa Was a Rollin' Stone

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential recording

The Temptations have long had the reputation for being able to out-sing, out-dress, and out-dance any vocal group in sight. Their earliest hits featured either the grits-and-gravy stylings of David Ruffin ("My Girl," "I Wish It Would Rain") or the gossamer falsetto of Eddie Kendricks ("The Way You Do the Things You Do," "You're My Everything"). Replacing Ruffin with Dennis Edwards, the group went to a five-lead-voices concept ("Cloud Nine," "I Can't Get Next to You," "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone") that kept them in hits for another two decades. This 46-song, 2 CD set sports every one of these classics, an incredible live! version of "Ol' Man River," the seriously funky &quo;Shakey Ground," the Rick James-assisted "Standing on the Top," and many, many magical musical moments more. Bassman Melvin Franklin, Paul Williams, and the unrelated Otis Williams were the other key members . Recommended reading: Temptations by Otis Williams with Patricia Romanowski (Putman, 1988) and Deliver Us from Temptation by Tony Turner with Barbara Aria (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992). --Don Waller

Amazon.com

The Temptations have long had the reputation for being able to out-sing, out-dress, and out-dance any vocal group in sight. Their earliest hits featured either the grits-and-gravy stylings of David Ruffin ("My Girl," "I Wish It Would Rain") or the gossamer falsetto of Eddie Kendricks ("The Way You Do the Things You Do," "You're My Everything"). Replacing Ruffin with Dennis Edwards, the group went to a five-lead-voices concept ("Cloud Nine," "I Can't Get Next to You," "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone") that kept them in hits for another two decades. This 46-song, 2 CD set sports every one of these classics, an incredible live! version of "Ol' Man River," the seriously funky &quo;Shakey Ground," the Rick James-assisted "Standing on the Top," and many, many magical musical moments more. Bassman Melvin Franklin, Paul Williams, and the unrelated Otis Williams were the other key members . Recommended reading: Temptations by Otis Williams with Patricia Romanowski (Putman, 1988) and Deliver Us from Temptation by Tony Turner with Barbara Aria (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992). --Don Waller

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There just comes no better than this., October 19, 2000

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Eric V. Moye (New York, by way of Dallas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anthology-The Best of The Temptations (Audio CD)

This is the one definitive collection. The Tempts were as good as it got back in the day.

All their early hits were here. Early on is one of my favorite pairings: "My Girl" for the good days ('sunshine on a cloudy day, when its cold outside I've got the month of May') to its lyrical opposite for the bad days, "Since I Lost My Baby" ('sun is shining and plenty of light, a new day has dawned both sunny and bright, but after I've been crying all night, the sun is cold, and the new day seems old').

Some of the best love songs of the '60's are here: "I Wish it Would Rain", "You're My Everything" and "I Could Never Love Another". They made us happy, and they made us want to cry. Also are their great party songs that made you want to get up, like the funky "Cloud Nine" and "Psychedelic Shack" and "Runaway Child".

Testimony to their greatness is that irreplacables like Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin were some how replaceable, and the Temptations kept on rolling out the hits.

This is perhaps the best collection Amazon has for sale.

30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This one of the Temtps best album they have EVER created!, November 18, 1999

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Faye Knight (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Anthology-The Best of The Temptations (Audio CD)

I ordered this beautiful album about two weeks ago. and if I say this is one of their BEST one yet, please believe me! Once you hear it, you'll want to play it every day! I listen to it in my car and at home. Everytime, I leave my house, I grab two things: My purse and the Temptation CD. ANTHOLOGY. I can even identfy EACH singer's voice, in every song that is sang. There are beautiful songs on this particular album that I have never heard over the radio. Melvin Franklin's voice on "Old Man River", makes chills come all over me. The man was tough! David, Eddie, Paul, Melvin and Otis are the artists who grace this CD. If you buy it, you won't be disappointed. I can assure you! I'm a HUGE fan of the Temptations.

32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 3 *'s FOR THE CD, 5 *'S FOR THE TEMPTS, December 30, 2004

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Glenn Johnson "TOP 40 ADDICT" (Kentucky, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Anthology-The Best of The Temptations (Audio CD)

Did someone over at Motown have a brainfart or something. Why are these Motown tracks being "remastered" in MONO? The entire first disc of this 2 disc set is in mono. I have the old Compact Command Performances CD which includes 8 of these tracks and on that CD they're all STEREO. What's the deal?

Can't fault the music. One of the greatest acts to come out of Motown, or anywhere else for that matter.