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Emperors Of Soul (Box Set) (CD)

By: The Temptations (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Emperors Of Soul (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Temptations (Artist)
1   Come On - (with Otis Williams & The Distants)
2   Oh Mother Of Mine
3   Romance Without Finance
4   Check Yourself
5   Dream Come True
6   Mind Over Matter (I'm Gonna Make You Mine) - (with The Pirates)
7   I'll Love You 'Till I Die - (with The Pirates)
8   Paradise
9   Slow Down Heart
10   I Couldn't Cry If I Wanted To
11   Witchcraft (For Your Love) - (previously unreleased)
12   I Want A Love I Can See
13   Further You Look, The Less You See, The
14   Farewell My Love
15   Tear From A Woman's Eyes, A
16   Way You Do The Things You Do, The
17   I'll Be In Trouble
18   Girl's Alright With Me, The
19   Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)
20   Baby, Baby I Need You
21   My Girl
22   Nobody But My Baby, (Talking 'Bout)
23   It's Growing
24   You'll Lose A Precious Love
25   Since I Lost My Baby
26   You've Got To Earn It
27   My Baby
28   Don't Look Back
 
DISC 2 for Emperors Of Soul (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Temptations (Artist)
1   Get Ready
2   Fading Away
3   Ain't Too Proud To Beg
4   Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
5   Who You Gonna Run To
6   Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
7   I Got Heaven Right Here On Earth - (previously unreleased)
8   I'm Losing You, (I Know)
9   All I Need
10   Sorry Is A Sorry Word
11   I'm Doing It All - (previously unreleased)
12   No More Water In The Well
13   You're My Everything
14   Just One Last Look
15   Angel Doll - (previously unreleased)
16   It's You That I Need, (Loneliness Made Me Realize)
17   Don't Send Me Away
18   Hello Young Lovers
19   Ol' Man River - (previously unreleased, alternate version)
20   I Wish It Would Rain
21   I Truly, Truly Believe
22   I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
23   Please Return Your Love To Me
24   How Can I Forget
25   For Once In My Life - (live)
26   (untitled) - (hidden track)
 
DISC 3 for Emperors Of Soul (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Temptations (Artist)
1   Cloud Nine
2   Why Did She Have To Leave Me (Why Did She Have To Go)
3   I'm Gonna Make You Love Me - (with Diana Ross & The Supremes)
4   I'll Try Something New - (with Diana Ross & The Supremes)
5   Runaway Child, Running Wild
6   Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down
7   I Can't Get Next To You
8   Message From A Black Man
9   War
10   Psychedelic Shack
11   Hum Along And Dance
12   Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)
13   Ungena Za Ulimwengu :: Unite The World
14   Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
15   Take A Look Around
16   It's Summer
17   Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)
18   I Ain't Got Nothin'
19   Mother Nature
20   Papa Was A Rolling Stone
 
DISC 4 for Emperors Of Soul (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Temptations (Artist)
1   Masterpiece
2   Plastic Man
3   Hey Girl (I Like Your Style)
4   Law Of The Land - (alternate mix, previously unreleased)
5   Let Your Hair Down
6   Heavenly
7   You've Got My Soul On Fire
8   Happy People
9   Shakey Ground
10   Glasshouse
11   Song For You, A
12   Memories
13   Keep Holdin' On
14   Darling, Stand By Me (Song For My Woman)
15   Who Are You
16   In A Lifetime
17   Power
18   Isn't The Night Fantastic
19   Aiming At Your Heart
 
DISC 5 for Emperors Of Soul (Box Set) (CD) Album By The Temptations (Artist)
1   Standing On The Top Pt. 1 - (with Rick James)
2   Sail Away
3   Treat Her Like A Lady
4   My Love Is True (Truly For You)
5   Do You Really Love Your Baby
6   Magic
7   Lady Soul
8   I Wonder Who She's Seeing Now
9   Look What You Started
10   Soul To Soul
11   Special
12   My Kind Of Woman - (previously unreleased)
13   Hoops Of Fire
14   Error Of Our Ways - (1994)
15   Givin' U The Best - (1994)
16   Elevator Eyes - (1994)
17   Blueprint For Love - (1994)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/29/94-1/12/95, p.188) - 5 Stars - Classic - "...Not only was the group able to maintain its identity as it moved from doo-wop to soul harmony to psychedelia and on to funk, but it kept cranking out hits....A document to [The Temptations'] incredible mutability..."
Q (11/94, p.146) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...It all adds up: The Temptations are the greatest vocal harmony group ever. EMPERORS OF SOUL goes most of the way to proving the point..."

Title Note

The Temptations: Melvin Franklin, Otis Williams, Eldridge Bryant, Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, David Ruffin, Dennis Edwards, Ricky Owens, Richard Street, Damon Harris, Glenn Leonard, Louis Price, Ron Tyson, Ali-Ollie Woodson, Theo Peoples.

Additional personnel includes: Eddie Willis (guitar); Detroit Symphony Orchetra (strings); Danya Hartwick (flute, piccolo); Andrew "Mike" Terry (saxophone); Marcus Belgrave (trumpet); Paul Riser (trombone); Johnny Griffith (piano, organ, keyboards); Earl Van Dyke (piano, keyboards); Richard "Pocorn" Wylie (piano); Jack Ashford (vibraphone, marimba, percussion); James Jamerson (acoustic & electric bass); Robert Finch (drums); Norman Whitfield (tambourine); Eddie "Bongo" Brown (congas, bongos, percussion); Paulinho Da Costa (percussion).

Producers include: Dre-Mic, Berry Gordy, Clarence Paul, Smokey Robinson, Norman Whitfield.

Compilation producer: Harry Weinger.

Recorded between 1959 and 1994. Includes liner notes by Harry Weinger and Nelson George.

Digitally remastered by Joseph P. Palmaccio (PolyGram Studios).

This is part of the Motown Master series.

EMPERORS OF SOUL contains 110 songs, including 10 previously unreleased tracks, 4 brand new recordings, and 7 tracks never found on any album. Also included is an 80-page booklet with detailed track by track annotations, rare photos and interviews, and a complete discography.

The Temptations became one of the most successful singles groups of the '60s--ever, actually--by making hearstopping, doo-wop influenced soul ballads and emotionally raw dance music, but also by adapting to the times. In their earliest incarnation, David Ruffin's scratchy soul voice (as heard in "Ain't Too Proud To Beg"), Eddie Kendricks' high creamy croon ("My Girl") and some of Smokey Robinson's best songs (he was their first producer) gave the Temptations appeal to both hardcore rhythm and blues and mainstream pop audiences. When Ruffin and then Kendricks left, the band, now under the auspices of writer-producer Norman Whitfield, soldiered on and, with new lead singer Dennis Edwards, made some of the most funky and socially conscious--and still marvelously commercial--singles of the late '60s and early '70s, including "Ball Of Confusion" and "Papa Was A Rolling Stone."

Because they were almost strictly a singles group, their career was loaded with album tracks and B-sides--some of which would have made ace singles themselves--which history has left on the relics pile and which huge box sets like EMPERORS OF SOUL were created to rescue. The Motown-meets-Stax tune "You've Got To Earn It," which was stuck on the B-side of "Since I Lost My Baby," is about as fine a throwaway as you can bury in such a location; "No More Water In The Well" features a deep-soul vocal by Ruffin that resonates with all the rhythm and blues that came before. There are later treasures too, including such minor '70s singles as "Take A Look Around," a cinematically-orchestrated Norman Whitfield-Barrett Strong ballad about the drug-ravaged inner city. Not surprisingly, that one still resonates, too.

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