Song for You [Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered]

Temptations | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 20, 1998)
• Original Release Date: 1983
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
• Label: Umvd Special Markets
• ASIN: B00000DBYF
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,220 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Happy People

2. Glasshouse

3. Shakey Ground

4. The Prophet

5. Happy People (Instrumental)

6. A Song For You

7. Memories

8. I'm A Bachelor

9. Firefly

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Leon Russell's title track had already become a modern standard recorded by everyone from the Carpenters to Willie Nelson by the time the Tempts got to it on this 1975 disc. With the number of original group members shrunken by death and departure, it no doubt held plenty of resonance for those who carried on. The record's highlight, though, is "Shakey Ground," driven by P-Funk-ers Eddie Hazel and William "Billy Bass" Nelson. What remains is thoughtful, somewhat shallow, and not up to the level of innovation Motown colleagues Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, not to mention the Tempts themselves, had reached. A good album, if one that fails to meet its goal of true significance. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "MEMORIES...SWEET MEMORIES,...", September 11, 2002

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L. Kelsey "lkelsey" (Riverside, CA. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Song for You (Audio CD)

is what this album invokes. This is my FAVORITE TEMPTS album and one that is more meaningful now then it was when I first heard it. When I first heard it, I was a junior in high school. I eventually had this one on 8-Track, but before that, my favorite radio station, [local station], just about played every song on the album...and what songs to choose from: "Happy People," "Shakey Ground," "GLASS HOUSE," "I'm a Bachelor," "A Song for You" and my favorite jam, "MEMORIES." I hear that song and get CHILLS. Dennis Edwards, my favorite leading man in the Tempts history, is in fine voice throughout and on this song, he's too on target! Remember, "if you're livin' in a GLASS HOUSE, don't throw no stones"...and get this CD if you don't already have it! A 70's CLASSIC!

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully refreshing after the Whitfield years, August 13, 2000

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The Fancy One "blackprincess" (Westchester County, NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Song for You (Audio CD)

Even though The Tempts had the majority of their hits under the production of Norman Whitfield, by the mid 1970s, their LPs got to be redundant and hard-to-believably BORING. They seemed to be more like Norman Whitfield productions than Temptations' songs. This CD, A SONG FOR YOU, is a welcome change. Produced by Jeffrey Bowen, this CD features romantic songs ("Memories", "A Song For You", "Firefly"), and driving, funky dance tunes ("Glasshouse", "Shakey Ground", "Happy People"). Dennis Edwards, THE voice of the Tempts in the '70s, takes command of these songs like only he can (except on "Firefly", where Richard Street has the lead). One of the very best of the Tempts' LPs from that period, without a doubt. Great harmonies as always, but that's a given. We're talking about THE TEMPTATIONS. How can you expect anything different? GET IT.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Last GREAT Temps album..., November 9, 2006

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Kevin Buckner (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Song for You (Audio CD)

Rickey Wright got it wrong, this album is all that and a bag of chips, and a pack of Bubblelicious! 1975, I was a freshman in college and everyone was jamming to 'Shakey Ground', but I was always drawn to the "b" (ballad) side of the set; A Song for You, Memories, Firefly and I'm a Bachelor. Not a weak sister in the bunch, all prime filet. That five-part harmonizing that no one could touch was in fine, fine form. Dennis earned his "Temptations Forever" tag with this one, he put his own stank on it, beyond any of the Norman Whitfield days...for me anyway. There was nothing after this album that touched me the way this one did.

I was blessed to see the "Original" Temps; Otis, Paul, Eddie, David and Melvin at the tender age of 13 and YES they were the singin'est, steppin'est, dressin'est group out there, truly "the Emperors of Soul"...GET THIS.