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I know their most popular is “Aint Too Proud to Beg” but I always felt that JMI was their best effort. It’s so beautiful and the harmonies were gorgeous!!!
I love when they get to the part of “Every night on my knees I pray...” the vocals are haunting! Beautiful lyrics and vocals.
What would you saw was their best song?
| by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 23, 2019 3:09 AM |
Their most popular is probably “My Girl.” They were a great group. I loved “Papa Was A Rolling Stone.”
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 16, 2019 2:41 AM |
I agree "My Girl" is probably their biggest song, followed by "I Can't Get Next To You".
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 16, 2019 2:43 AM |
There is also "Papa was a rolling stone" but that has become a kind of vulgar party-favorite for white people. I agree with the OP that "Just my Imagination" is probably their towering achievement. The bridge ("Every night, on my knees I pray...") is pure Gospel, and that anchors the sublime flights of falsetto harmony in true Earth.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 16, 2019 2:45 AM |
No. They sang many good songs.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 16, 2019 2:46 AM |
OP, JMI is also my favorite by them.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 16, 2019 2:46 AM |
The version I posted at R4 seems a little fast, here's the original.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 16, 2019 2:48 AM |
JMI is my favorite Temps song too, OP. I lived it at the time, that summer it seemed like it was on the radio constantly. I still love everything about it, the little marimba riff at the start, the horns, everything about the arrangement is beautiful. And especially those harmonies, like silk. Eddie Kendricks sang most of it (that falsetto!) but that one line you quote was Paul Williams. He’s the one who had to drop out of the band due to his alcoholism and later committed suicide.
They’re all dead now except Otis, He’s still kicking.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 16, 2019 3:09 AM |
The “Every Night on my knees I pray” almost sounds like he’s in pain while singing it. Haunting.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 16, 2019 3:16 AM |
R10 He was in pain. He was in the throes of alcoholism when they recorded that album and was forced to retire from the group just after the song was released, in the spring of 1971. He killed himself 2 years later.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 16, 2019 3:32 AM |
I’ve always loved this early song of theirs, from 1963 when they were still pretty much unknown. Paul Williams sings lead on it.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 16, 2019 3:35 AM |
Here is "Just My Imagination" a capella. Just pure voice.
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 16, 2019 3:49 AM |
I also love "The Way You Do the Things You Do."
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 16, 2019 3:51 AM |
The amount of talent these men had >>> ugh so good
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 16, 2019 3:48 PM |
The Supremes and the Temptations sing each other's hits on Sullivan.
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 16, 2019 10:53 PM |
My Girl, JMI and You are my Everything are my faves.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 16, 2019 11:37 PM |
One of my favorites
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 23, 2019 3:02 AM |
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