My Girl: The Best of [Original recording remastered]

Temptations | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 16, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Label: Motown
• ASIN: B00006580T
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,688 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Dream Come True [Extended Stereo Mix]

2. I Want a Love I Can See [Extended Stereo Mix]

3. The Way You Do the Things You Do

4. My Girl

5. It's Growing

6. Since I Lost My Baby

7. Don't Look Back

8. Get Ready

9. Ain't Too Proud to Beg

10. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Psychedelic Shack

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

3. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)

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

5. Papa Was a Rollin' Stone

6. Masterpiece

7. Hey Girl (I Like Your Style)

8. Let Your Hair Down

9. Shakey Ground

10. Power

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent Temptations Collection..., September 2, 2003

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yygsgsdrassil "yygsgsdrassil" (Crossroads America) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Girl: The Best of (Audio CD)

...this with the new Psychedelic Soul collection should cover anyone's Temptation's taste....

However, I wish they would have put "Soul to Soul" on it instead of that remix of "Some Enchanted Evening" and somehow could have squeezed in the "1990" Whitfield penned "Zoom"...

But, I can't complain. It's got the hard to find Temps/Supremes version of "Im Gonna Make You Love Me", you can hear how "Masterpiece" and "Poppa Was A Rollin'Stone" are *really* s'pozed to sound like because of the recent remastering (there's a rest in the instrumental of "Poppa", right before Dennis starts that is extremely stunning, made more noticable in the remastering. I know I sound paradoxical, but you'll experience it when you buy this..) and you get insight into many of the tunes by survivor Otis Williams. (It's too bad they couldn't have solicited some of Dennis Edwards' insights, also.) You get tidbits like how Rose Royce was used in recording "Let Your Hair Down" instead of the Motown Bullpen's Funk Brothers and when and where, say, the personnel began to change. All in the liner notes.

Plus you get the Alton "Wookie" Stewart "Jones" remix. Now, tell me, where else are you gonna find that?

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost Perfect, December 28, 2006

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jansley "jim ansley" (Vernon, Texas) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: My Girl: The Best of (Audio CD)

I'm only a casual fan of Motown music but the Temptations are by far my favorite Motown group. I got this CD to replace my 1985 Command Performances 17 Greatest Hits CD and this collection does not disappoint.

The highlights for me are the cleaner, stronger bass sound on my favorite Temp song - "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone." The remastered sound on this alone is worth the price of this CD. Also, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" has never sounded better. All the early songs are in stereo (or semi-stereo) which is great. I also appreciate the liner notes about each song by the remaining original member, Otis Williams.

I have only a few complaints. First, Disk 1 is only 58 minutes and could have used a few more of their early songs. One I wish was on it is "Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)" (it's on the Command Performances CD). Not my favorite but a good song that should be on this collection. Disk 2 is a healthy 75 minutes - but I am not as excited about the songs recorded after 1973, so the last few songs on this CD seem like filler.

My second complaint is that for someone like me that did not follow this group closely, it would have been nice if the liner notes would have indicated who the lead singer was on each song but they do not.

Third, for most of the songs, the remastered sound is superior to the Command Performances CD. But on some songs, like the fabulous "I Could Never Love Another", the remastered violins (or should I say strings)seem to dominate too much. The Command Performance version of this song has a better blend. I'm not too crazy about the strings that were on most of these old Motown songs anyway. It would be interesting to hear them with the strings removed.

But these are minor complaints and all in all this is a great collection by an incredible group.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!!, January 20, 2003

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C. Horton (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Girl: The Best of (Audio CD)

I love this compilation, especially since it has one of my favorite early Temptations songs, I Want A Love I Can See. This is the perfect CD to have if you don't have the 60+ dollars for the Emperors of Soul CD set.