The Temptations Lyrics
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From the Album
1. Cloud Nine
2. I Wish It Would Rain
3. Ball Of Confusion (Thats What The World Is Today)
4. (I Know) Im Losing You
5. I Cant Get Next To You
6. Youre My Everything
7. Psychedelic Shack
8. Please Return Your Love To Me
9. Runaway Child Running Wild
10. I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
11. Dont Let The Joneses Get You Down
12. (Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need
From the Album
1. The Way You Do The Things You Do
2. My Girl
3. Aint Too Proud To Beg
4. Dont Look Back
5. Get Ready
6. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
7. Since I Lost My Baby
8. The Girls Alright With Me
9. My Baby
10. Its Growing
11. Ill Be In Trouble
12. Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)
Other Songs A Place in the Sun A Song For You A Taste Of Honey A Tear From A Womans Eyes Act Fast Aiming At Your Heart Ain't No Sunshine All I Need Angel Doll Any Other Night At Last Baby Baby I Need You Back To School Again Ball Of Confusion Ball Of Confusion / Thats What The World Is Today Born To Love You Build Me Up Buttercup Camouflage Check Yourself Christmas Song Come On Common Man Darling Stand By Me Darling, Stand by Me (Song for My Woman) Date With the Rain Dinah Dont Let Him Take Your Love From Me Don't Look Any Further Dont Send Me Away Eenie Meenie Minie Moe El Tamborilero Everlasting Everything For Christmas Everything's Coming up Love Fading Away False Faces Farewell My Love Firefly For Better or Worse For Once In My Life Get the Cream off the Top Girl Girl You Need a Change of Mind Give Love On Christmas Day Glasshouse Gonna Give Her All The Love Ive Got Gonna Keep On Trying Till I Win Your Love Happy Landing Happy People Heavenly Hello Young Lovers He's a Friend Hey Girl Hey Girl (I Like Your Style) Hey Jude Hold on, I'm Comin' Hoops of Fire Hoops Of Fire [Single-Version] How Can I Forget How Deep Is Your Love How He Could Hurt You I Cant Get Next To You (Finale) I Cant Help My Self I Cant Think Of A Thing At All I Could Never Love Another I Couldnt Cry If I Wanted To I Gotta Find A Way I Hear a Symphony I Heard It Through The Grapevine I Need Your Lovin I Second That Emotion I Truly Truly Believe I Wanna Get Next To You I Want A Love I Can See I'll Love You 'Til I Die Ill Love You Till I Die Im Gonna Make You Love Me I'm Gonna Make You Love Me [With Interview] Im Ready For Love Im The Exception To The Rule In His Kiss Isnt She Pretty Its Summer Ive Been Good To You Ive Got Heaven Right Here On Earth I've Lost Everything I've Ever Loved Ive Never Been To Me Ive Passed This Way Before Just Another Lonely Night Just Let Me Know Just My Imagination Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) Just One Last Look Keep Holding On Keep On Truckin' Lady Soul Lean On Me Let It Be Me Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Life Is But a Dream Little Drummer Boy Little Green Apples Love Is a Hurtin' Thing Lullaby of Love Masterpiece Message From A Black Man Minute by Minute My Christmas Tree My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) Never Can Say Goodbye Night and Day No More Water In The Well Oh Holy Night Oh Holy Night [Previously Unreleased Track] Oh Mother Of Mine Ol Man River Papa Was A Rollin Stone Papa Was A Rollin Stone (Pt. 1) Papa Was A Rollin Stone (Pt. 2) Papa Was A Rolling Stone Paradise Power Power [Single Version] Reach Out and Touch (Somebodys Hand) Reflections Romance Without Finance Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Run Away Child Running Wild Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Santa Claus Is Watching You Say You Shakey Ground Shoe Shine Boy Silent Night Silver Bells Smiling Faces Sometimes Someday At Christmas Somethin' Special Somewhere Sorry Is A Sorry Word Soul to Soul Special Stand By Me Standing On The Top Statue of a Fool Stay Stay with Me Stop! In the Name of Love Stubborn Kind of Fellow Sugar Pie Honey Bunch Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are) Sweetest Thing Take A Look Around Tear From A Womans Eyes Tell Her Love Has Felt the Need Thats Life Thats The Way Love Is That's What Friends Are For That's Why (I Love You So) The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) The End of Our Road The First Time Ever The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face The Further You Look The Less You See The Impossible Dream The Little Drummer Boy The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage The Weight This Christmas This Girl's In Love With You This Guy's in Love with You This Used to Be the Home of Johnnie Mae Time After Time Treat Her Like A Lady Try It Baby Try To Remember Under The Board Walk Under the Boardwalk Wake Up Everybody Walk Away from Love War What a Difference a Day Makes What Becomes of the Brokenhearted What Love Has Joined Together What Now My Love What's It Gonna Be Whats So Good About Good-Bye Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) White Christmas Who Can I Turn To Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) Whos Lovin You Why (Must We Fall in Love) With These Hands Yesterday/What Now My Love You Beat Me To The Punch You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth Youll Lose A Precious Love (Youre My) Dream Come True Youve Really Got A Hold On Me
From the Album
Other Songs A Place in the Sun A Song For You A Taste Of Honey A Tear From A Womans Eyes Act Fast Aiming At Your Heart Ain't No Sunshine All I Need Angel Doll Any Other Night At Last Baby Baby I Need You Back To School Again Ball Of Confusion Ball Of Confusion / Thats What The World Is Today Born To Love You Build Me Up Buttercup Camouflage Check Yourself Christmas Song Come On Common Man Darling Stand By Me Darling, Stand by Me (Song for My Woman) Date With the Rain Dinah Dont Let Him Take Your Love From Me Don't Look Any Further Dont Send Me Away Eenie Meenie Minie Moe El Tamborilero Everlasting Everything For Christmas Everything's Coming up Love Fading Away False Faces Farewell My Love Firefly For Better or Worse For Once In My Life Get the Cream off the Top Girl Girl You Need a Change of Mind Give Love On Christmas Day Glasshouse Gonna Give Her All The Love Ive Got Gonna Keep On Trying Till I Win Your Love Happy Landing Happy People Heavenly Hello Young Lovers He's a Friend Hey Girl Hey Girl (I Like Your Style) Hey Jude Hold on, I'm Comin' Hoops of Fire Hoops Of Fire [Single-Version] How Can I Forget How Deep Is Your Love How He Could Hurt You I Cant Get Next To You (Finale) I Cant Help My Self I Cant Think Of A Thing At All I Could Never Love Another I Couldnt Cry If I Wanted To I Gotta Find A Way I Hear a Symphony I Heard It Through The Grapevine I Need Your Lovin I Second That Emotion I Truly Truly Believe I Wanna Get Next To You I Want A Love I Can See I'll Love You 'Til I Die Ill Love You Till I Die Im Gonna Make You Love Me I'm Gonna Make You Love Me [With Interview] Im Ready For Love Im The Exception To The Rule In His Kiss Isnt She Pretty Its Summer Ive Been Good To You Ive Got Heaven Right Here On Earth I've Lost Everything I've Ever Loved Ive Never Been To Me Ive Passed This Way Before Just Another Lonely Night Just Let Me Know Just My Imagination Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) Just One Last Look Keep Holding On Keep On Truckin' Lady Soul Lean On Me Let It Be Me Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Life Is But a Dream Little Drummer Boy Little Green Apples Love Is a Hurtin' Thing Lullaby of Love Masterpiece Message From A Black Man Minute by Minute My Christmas Tree My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) Never Can Say Goodbye Night and Day No More Water In The Well Oh Holy Night Oh Holy Night [Previously Unreleased Track] Oh Mother Of Mine Ol Man River Papa Was A Rollin Stone Papa Was A Rollin Stone (Pt. 1) Papa Was A Rollin Stone (Pt. 2) Papa Was A Rolling Stone Paradise Power Power [Single Version] Reach Out and Touch (Somebodys Hand) Reflections Romance Without Finance Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer Run Away Child Running Wild Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Santa Claus Is Watching You Say You Shakey Ground Shoe Shine Boy Silent Night Silver Bells Smiling Faces Sometimes Someday At Christmas Somethin' Special Somewhere Sorry Is A Sorry Word Soul to Soul Special Stand By Me Standing On The Top Statue of a Fool Stay Stay with Me Stop! In the Name of Love Stubborn Kind of Fellow Sugar Pie Honey Bunch Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are) Sweetest Thing Take A Look Around Tear From A Womans Eyes Tell Her Love Has Felt the Need Thats Life Thats The Way Love Is That's What Friends Are For That's Why (I Love You So) The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) The End of Our Road The First Time Ever The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face The Further You Look The Less You See The Impossible Dream The Little Drummer Boy The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage The Weight This Christmas This Girl's In Love With You This Guy's in Love with You This Used to Be the Home of Johnnie Mae Time After Time Treat Her Like A Lady Try It Baby Try To Remember Under The Board Walk Under the Boardwalk Wake Up Everybody Walk Away from Love War What a Difference a Day Makes What Becomes of the Brokenhearted What Love Has Joined Together What Now My Love What's It Gonna Be Whats So Good About Good-Bye Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) White Christmas Who Can I Turn To Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me) Whos Lovin You Why (Must We Fall in Love) With These Hands Yesterday/What Now My Love You Beat Me To The Punch You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth Youll Lose A Precious Love (Youre My) Dream Come True Youve Really Got A Hold On Me
The Temptations are an American vocal group formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1960 as the Elgins, known for their string of successful singles and albums with Motown Records from the 1960s to the mid-1970s. The group's work with producer Norman Whitfield, beginning with the Top 10 hit single "Cloud Nine" in October 1968, pioneered psychedelic soul, and was significant in the evolution of R&B and soul music.
The band members are known for their choreography, distinct harmonies, and dress style. Having sold tens of millions of albums, the Temptations are among the most successful groups in popular music.
Featuring five male vocalists and dancers (save for brief periods with fewer or more members), the group's founding members came from two rival Detroit vocal groups: Otis Williams, Elbridge "Al" Bryant, and Melvin Franklin of Otis Williams & the Distants, and Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams of the Primes. In 1964, Bryant was replaced by David Ruffin, who was the lead vocalist on a number of the group's biggest hits, including "My Girl" (1964), "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (1966), and "I Wish It Would Rain" (1967). Ruffin was replaced in 1968 by Dennis Edwards, with whom the group continued to record hit records such as "Cloud Nine" (1968), "I Can't Get Next to You" (1969), and "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" (1970). Kendricks and Paul Williams both left the group in 1971, with subsequent members including Richard Street, Damon Harris, Glenn Leonard, Ron Tyson, and Ali-Ollie Woodson, the last of whom was the lead singer on late-period hit "Treat Her Like a Lady" in 1984 and the theme song for the children's movement program Kids in Motion in 1987.
Over the course of their career, the Temptations released four Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles and fourteen R&B number-one singles. Their music has earned four Grammy Awards. The Temptations were the first Motown recording act to win a Grammy Award - for "Cloud Nine" in 1969 - and in 2013 received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Six of the Temptations (Edwards, Franklin, Kendricks, Ruffin, Otis Williams and Paul Williams) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. Three classic Temptations songs, "My Girl", "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)", and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", are among The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The Temptations were ranked at number 68 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of all time. They were the first Motown artist to receive a Grammy Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award (which they gained in 2014).
In 2023, the Temptations were ranked as the #1 artist on the Top 100 Greatest R&B/Hip-Hop Artists Of All Time according to Billboard magazine.
As of 2024, the Temptations continue to perform with founder Otis Williams in the lineup (Williams owns the rights to the Temptations name).
Also Known As: The Elgins, The PiratesThe band members are known for their choreography, distinct harmonies, and dress style. Having sold tens of millions of albums, the Temptations are among the most successful groups in popular music.
Featuring five male vocalists and dancers (save for brief periods with fewer or more members), the group's founding members came from two rival Detroit vocal groups: Otis Williams, Elbridge "Al" Bryant, and Melvin Franklin of Otis Williams & the Distants, and Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams of the Primes. In 1964, Bryant was replaced by David Ruffin, who was the lead vocalist on a number of the group's biggest hits, including "My Girl" (1964), "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (1966), and "I Wish It Would Rain" (1967). Ruffin was replaced in 1968 by Dennis Edwards, with whom the group continued to record hit records such as "Cloud Nine" (1968), "I Can't Get Next to You" (1969), and "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" (1970). Kendricks and Paul Williams both left the group in 1971, with subsequent members including Richard Street, Damon Harris, Glenn Leonard, Ron Tyson, and Ali-Ollie Woodson, the last of whom was the lead singer on late-period hit "Treat Her Like a Lady" in 1984 and the theme song for the children's movement program Kids in Motion in 1987.
Over the course of their career, the Temptations released four Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles and fourteen R&B number-one singles. Their music has earned four Grammy Awards. The Temptations were the first Motown recording act to win a Grammy Award - for "Cloud Nine" in 1969 - and in 2013 received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Six of the Temptations (Edwards, Franklin, Kendricks, Ruffin, Otis Williams and Paul Williams) were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. Three classic Temptations songs, "My Girl", "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)", and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", are among The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The Temptations were ranked at number 68 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of all time. They were the first Motown artist to receive a Grammy Award and a Lifetime Achievement Award (which they gained in 2014).
In 2023, the Temptations were ranked as the #1 artist on the Top 100 Greatest R&B/Hip-Hop Artists Of All Time according to Billboard magazine.
As of 2024, the Temptations continue to perform with founder Otis Williams in the lineup (Williams owns the rights to the Temptations name).
Members:
Otis Williams (1960-present)
Ron Tyson (1983-present)
Terry Weeks (1997-present)
Tony Grant (2021-present)
Jawan M. Jackson (2022-present)
Former:
Melvin Franklin (1960-1994) (d. 1995)
Eddie Kendricks (1960-1971, 1982 reunion) (d. 1992)
Paul Williams (1960-1971) (d. 1973)
Elbridge "Al" Bryant (1960-1964) (d. 1975)
David Ruffin (1964-1968, 1982 reunion) (d. 1991)
Dennis Edwards (1968-1977, 1980-1984, 1987-1989) (d. 2018)
Richard Street (1971-1993) (d. 2013)
Ricky Owens (1971) (d. 1996)
Damon Harris (1971-1975) (d. 2013)
Glenn Leonard (1975-1983)
Louis Price (1977-1980)
Ali-Ollie Woodson (1984-87, 1989-1996, 2002) (d. 2010)
Theo Peoples (1993-1998)
Ray Davis (1994-1995) (d. 2005)
Harry McGilberry (1995-2003) (d. 2006)
Barrington "Bo" Henderson (1998-2003)
G. C. Cameron (2003-2007, 2019)
Joe Herndon (2003-2015)
Bruce Williamson (2007-2015) (d. 2020)
Larry Braggs (2015-2019)
Willie Greene (2015-2022)
Mario Corbino (2020-2021)
From: Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Genre(s): R&B, soul, funk, progressive soul, psychedelic soul
Active From: 1960-present