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| | The Ultimate Collection | | | Music Artist : | | The Temptations | | Music Style : | | Psychedelic Rock | | Record Label : | | Motown | | Release Date : | | 1997-03-25 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $10.97 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Way You Do the Things You Do
2. My Girl
3. It's Growing
4. Since I Lost My Baby
5. Don't Look Back
6. Get Ready
7. Ain't Too Proud to Beg
8. (I Know) I'm Losing You
9. All I Need
10. You're My Everything
11. Angel Doll
12. I Wish It Would Rain
13. Cloud Nine
14. I Can't Get Next to You
15. Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)
16. Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
17. Papa Was a Rollin' Stone
18. Shakey Ground
19. Treat Her Like a Lady
20. Error of Our Ways
21. My Girl [Acappella][Excerpt]
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Ultimate Collection of The Temptations
Submitted on: 2009-11-11 |
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| This CD is so good, it really is a collection of The Temptations best ever. What a blend of voices in that era. |
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Best of The Best
Submitted on: 2009-06-12 |
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| I looked for this Cd for awhile. I'm so glad that I found it. I have enjoyed every second of hearing all those old Temptation hits. Gold is the proper word for this CD. |
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The Ultimate Collection
Submitted on: 2008-11-27 |
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What a great collection!! The music is fun and uplifting, I enjoy the
vocals and the melody combination on this disc. Many of the songs are in
my record collection of days gone bye. My purchase was prompted when I
watched the movie about the Temptations. As I drive to work I listen to
the Cd everyday!!!! It is great way to start my day!!!!!
Linda Rozner |
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 Something is Missing
Submitted on: 2008-11-18 |
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| I love the CD, but it is inexcusable for not having "Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" and "Psychedelic Shack" on it. |
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What great music. . . .
Submitted on: 2008-10-18 |
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Recently, an Amazon friend reviewed this book. Since I gave up my old vinyl collection, I have not had any Temptations' CDs in my collection. That review just mentioned impelled me to begin adding some of the group's music to the set of CDs that I own.
Just got the CD and is it glorious! Obviously, one CD will not hold all of the best music of this group. However, what appears here is pretty terrific. From 1964, "The Way You Do the Things You Do" and "My Girl"; from 1972, "Just My Imagination (Running away with Me)" and, maybe, my all-time favorite work, "Pap Was a Rolling Stone"; from 1994, "Error of Our Ways."
A few examples of their work. . .
The sunny "My Girl." A cheerful instrumental introduction followed by opening lines such as:
"I've got sunshine on a cloudy day;
When it's cold outside, I got the month of May."
Why? "My girl." A nice uptempo, upbeat tune, something that the Temptations could do so well.
Of course, more lugubrious feelings can be elicited as well. Take "Just My Imagination (Running away with Me)." The singer speaks of the joy of having a wonderful girl"
". . .I watch her as she passes by.
I say to myself, I'm such a lucky guy.
To have a girl like her is truly a dream come true."
But the reality?
"It was just my imagination, running away with me."
Good instrumentals and fine vocal backing. One of the classics among all Temptations' songs. The Rolling Stones did a nice cover of this, but this version is the "real deal."
Then, my personal favorite of all their oeuvre, "Pap Was a Rolling Stone." A 2 minute introduction, as funky as one could wish, with wailing horns and an hypnotic beat before vocals come into play. The first lines:
"It was the third of September,
A day I'll always remember. . .
That was the day that my Daddy died."
This is the story of a person being apart from a father and hearing lots of bad things about him. Then asking his mom why. Her answer?
"Papa was a rolling stone,
Wherever he laid his hat was his home."
Song after song. These bring memories flooding back as I recalled hearing some of these songs for the first time when they were first released. Want to know something about this group? This is a good starting point.
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