This rough-hewn 1966 club date finds the original Temptations in their prime, complete with hordes of screaming girls. A couple of Berry Gordy's beloved adult-crossover standards slow the flow, but ultimately the energy, the voices, and songs such as "My Girl," "What Love Has Joined Together," and an extended, testifying "Don't Look Back" can't be stopped. A valuable reissue. --Rickey Wright
Temptations Live,Temptations,Motown / Pgd,Oldies,Pop,R&B,Soul/Reggae/Rhythm & Blues
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Temptations Live!
The Temptations Manufacturer: Motown ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00000J2S6 Release Date: 1999-05-18 |
Tracks:
- Introduction - Scott Regen
- Medley: Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)-he Girl's Alright With Me-'ll Be In Trouble-I Want A Love I Can See
- What Love Has Joined Together
- My Girl
- Yesterday/What Now My Love
- Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
- Group Introduction
- I Wish You Love
- Ain't Too Proud To Beg
- Old Man River
- Get Ready
- Fading Away
- My Baby
- You'll Lose A Precious Love
- Baby, Baby I Need You
- Don't Look Back
- The Way You Do The Things You Do
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This rough-hewn 1966 club date finds the original Temptations in their prime, complete with hordes of screaming girls. A couple of Berry Gordy's beloved adult-crossover standards slow the flow, but ultimately the energy, the voices, and songs such as "My Girl," "What Love Has Joined Together," and an extended, testifying "Don't Look Back" can't be stopped. A valuable reissue. --Rickey WrightCustomer Reviews:
temptations LIVE.......2007-02-23
AMAZING.......2006-09-14
All The Way Live.......2006-03-09
I was only ten years old at the time so the only time I got to see them was around the Christmas holidays when the Motown Motortown Revue came to the Fox Theatre in Detroit.
Anyway this recording gives a hint of their ability to entertain and enthrall onstage.
BTW- A 'live' version of 'My Girl' from '65 is on their 'Lost & Found' joint, probably the first time they'd sung it live.
The performance is nearly flawless save for David's voice cracking toward the end of 'Yesterday/What Now My Love'.
Anyway IMO one highlight is 'I Wish You Love' with Eddie on lead.
This is a very,very well recorded release.
Crisp and never muddy or distorted.
I haven't tried it on either a surround, 5.1, 6.1, or 7.1 system, just plain stereo but the audio information it contains is excellent.
Especially considering when it was recorded.
The Tempts are front and center and you can tell when they switch positions, not just leads but when Melvin and Paul
change places with Eddie and Otis on 'My Girl' for just one example.
That is to say you can tell who's standing next to whom and all that.
The audience is primed and enjoying the show and their comments and reactions ( grunts, shrieks, screams etc.) are clean and clear.
I wouldn't call this a 'Desert Island' must have but if you were to have to choose between this and say.....the latest new R N B joint then get this.
Sure its a short program but well worth the time and money.
Exciting, professional performances and recording.
There should be more material like this by them and others from this time period including The Marvellettes, Otis (Redding),Aretha, Gladys Knight & The Pips, The Supremes (never saw them live unfortunately), Marvin etc.
Temps Live.......2006-02-09
TEMPTIN' TEMPTATIONS.......2005-07-01
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Live at the Copa/With a Lot of Soul
The Temptations Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00004WZ5N Release Date: 2001-02-20 |
Tracks:
- Introduction
- Get Ready
- You're My Everything
- I Truly, Truly Believe
- I Wish It Would Rain
- For Once in My Life
- I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
- Introduction of the Band and Group
- Hello, Young Lovers
- With These Hands
- Swanee
- Impossible Dream
- Please Return Your Love to Me
- (I Know) I'm Losing You
- Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone
- All I Need
- (Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need
- No More Water in the Well
- Save My Love for a Rainy Day
- Just One Last Look
- Sorry Is a Sorry Word
- Now That You've Won Me
- Two Sides to Love
- Don't Send Me Away
Album Description
UK version of Motown's '2 Classic Albums On 1 CD Series'. Reissue of 2 of the male vocal groups 60's era albums, 'Live At The Copa' (1968) & 'With A Lot O' Soul' (1967) together o n 1 CD. Packaged in a full color slipcase with original artwork and 8 page booklet. The former LP reached #15 & is out of print in the U.S.; the latter peaked at #7 & is available in the U.S. with a suggested list of $9.97.Album Details
Digitally Remastered 2-On-1 CD of Two Great LPs by the Temps.Customer Reviews:
Incomplete Re-issues.......2006-09-07
More crucially, both albums are incomplete. Two key songs are common to both original albums, (I Know) I'm Losing You and You're My Everything, both major hits for the group. Firstly, (I Know) I'm Losing You is dropped from the end of Live At The Copa, as the applause from the preceding title is hastily and peremptorily faded. Apart from destroying the flow of the original conception of the album, it makes that track unavailable on CD.
Secondly, the studio version of You're My Everything is criminally absent from With A Lot O' Soul. Although this track is available on a number of compilations, its censorship from its rightful original album placing is unforgivable. No reference is made to these cuts, although both titles are shown in the replica sleeves from the original albums as reproduced inside the booklet. As the CD has a playing time of 72:15, both could have been included.
Live At The Copa marked one of the first concert appearances of Dennis Edwards in place of David Ruffin, and took place at the Copacabana in New York at an unspecified date in 1968 (some further details would have been welcomed). It shows how quickly and successfully he integrated into the group. The set mixed familiar Motown material with Broadway standards popular with the sophisticates of the day (an audience being wooed by Berry Gordy), and mostly taken from their In A Mellow Mood album. The recording is jinxed with technical shortcomings, mostly frequent microphone clickings and a badly distorting overload during I Wish It Would Rain, though there are also some very clumsy edits between songs, notably after The Impossible Dream. Whether the latter were on the original album, and so are excusable on grounds of historical accuracy, or are further examples of butchering by the re-issue compilers is unclear.
The Temptations With A Lot O' Soul is a classic Temptations album on many levels - the line-up, the producers and arrangers, the songs - and regarded as among their best of their "old style" releases. Although most of it was produced by Norman Whitfield, there are three Smokey Robinson productions of his own songs (recorded over the summer of 1966), including a cover of Marvin Gaye's Now That You've Won Me; one produced by Frank Wilson; one by Ivy Jo Hunter; and unusually one from the Holland/Dozier/Holland team, Just One Last Look. This is very much in the style of the Four Tops, who did also record an unreleased version in 1967. Two of the others are also in arrangements reminiscent of the Four Tops, the single (Loneliness Made Me Realise) It's You That I Need (originally a single for Eddie Holland in 1963) and Sorry Is A Sorry Word, an Eddie Holland/Ivy Jo song consigned to the B-side of All I Need. The mastering of the studio album is very good, although All I Need does lose a few seconds from the original album version.
The range of the band is shown to excellent advantage and though David Ruffin is quite deservedly the most prominent lead vocalist, Paul Williams is given No More Water In The Well, Otis Williams leads Don't Me Send me Away (both Smokey songs), while Eddie Kendricks sings both Save My Love For A Rainy Day and Two Sides To Love. David and Eddie shared the spotlight on You're My Everything, had it been included.
I hope Motown continue to activate the catalogue with these priceless re-issues, but that they learn from the rather botched job they made of this important release and perhaps prepare a corrected version.
LIVE AT THE COPA/MUSIC DIRECTOR PROPS.......2004-12-24
This one's ok........2003-06-25
I love Dennis, but I love David more, so I was quite happy to hear him on AWLOS.
Cool two-fer, but if u want real live action, get Temptations LIVE! I might have to buy another one if I wear mine out!!
Edit:7.23.03
**I so take back my previous statements!! While this show doesn't have the same live feel of Temptations LIVE!, it is still a great show. I believe it was Den's first w/the group. He slides right in. He doesn't try to be David...he's Dennis and he was on fire!!! I love the improv stuff he does during I Could Never Love Another. Paul is great, EDDIE IS GREAT (Check out You're My Everything, With These Hands, and Please Return Your Love to Me).
These guys were the masters!!! I am a young fan at 20, but these guys envoke more out of me than ANY group of my generation that I probably SHOULD be listening to! I can't speak about the current crop.as I am a Classic/Hall of Fame Temptfan, but purchase anything with The Voices (David, EDDIE, Paul, and Dennis) and you will NEVER be disappointed!!!
The With A Whole Lot o' Soul cd is classic also. I'm Losing You is the perfect opener for the disc. I love hearing Cornelius Grant on the guitar and Ruffin's heavy breath saying "Ooohooo. Your LOVE is fading!" It sends shivers up my spine!!
I read where people said things are missing from the original Copa LP. I wish they would have left whatever was missing on. I am a sucker for live shows. It shows what a group is really made of.
So cop this one. You're in for a treat!!!
missing 2 songs!.......2002-11-13
Missing a song.......2002-02-14
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Live at Casino San Pablo
The Temptations Review Featuring Dennis Edwards Manufacturer: Hi-C Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000508R2 Release Date: 2000-11-28 |
Tracks:
- Overture/Standing On The Top
- Psychedelic Shack
- Cloud 9
- Can't Get Next To You
- Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)
- Rainy Night In Georgia
- Naturally
- Get Ready
- Ain't Too Proud
- Lady Soul
- Papa Was A Rolling Stone
- Don't Look Back
- Song For You
- Why You Wanna Make Me Blue
- Wish It Would Rain
- The Way You Do The Things You Do
- Try To Remember
- My Girl
- Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
Customer Reviews:
Temptations - Live at Casino San Pablo.......2006-11-18
Temptations Review.......2006-10-30
AwEsOmE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2005-07-14
LISTEN FOR YOURSELF; PROOF IN PUDDING.......2005-05-19
"What right does Dennis Edwards [the one chosen to replace the departing "original" Temp David Ruffin in 1968] have to form a new group..." "Why don't/can't Dennis Edwards and Otis Williams bury the hatchet and get back together..." "I can't see any good in this set."
Well, there is almost assuredly bad blood between original and founding Temptations member Otis Williams and Dennis Edwards. Mr. Edwards left, then returned on one or two occasions.
As for the results of this set...those speak for themselves. One can even sample excerpts from the tunes here.
OK, there is only one surviving member of the "classic" line-up of the Temptations, and that's Otis Williams, who is still recording and touring with his "continuing" group, which, in fact, has had some success with recent albums. That's all to his great credit. Additional fact: Otis Williams, great as he is, only had a few lines of lead singing in the "classic" years. Dennis Edwards, on the other hand, was prominently featured on many, many great hits and album cuts from 1968 into the late 70's and beyond. He had the formidable task of replacing one of THE classic singers of 60's music. He undoubtedly rose to the challenge. And, while not as compelling a singer as Mr. Ruffin, the Temps actually increased their pop and r&b sales [by any measure] after Dennis Edwards took his place in the group. Arguably, that was due do the producing genius of Norman Whitfield as much as any of the vocals.
That being said, if it were me, I wouldn't just roll over and relinquish that legacy, especially if I still had "the chops."
All one has to do is sample these tracks by this new "Temptations Revue" line-up to judge if the voice is still there (it amply is). And, the David who stands in for David Ruffin here has a remarkably similar vocal timbre, while the member who handles the late Eddie Kendricks' parts sounds fine, too. The band is quite tight, as well.
GO AHEAD, HAVE A LISTEN!!
[Plus, I think some props are in order for brother Dennis for doing such a great job of assembling a group the best approximates the sound of the "classic" years. Lovingly done, at that!]
The past is un-reclaimable. It's gone, gone, gone. But, you still have a living, performing ex-lead singer of the Temptations who still has "the chops." Fair is fair.
Now, only one question remains: With so many Temptations greatest hits collections and anthologies available, with original and re-mastered versions and deluxe or stripped-down packages, why would one want to have THIS collection??? Good question. Perhaps an answer would be, this is a live set that "currently" approximates the "original" Temptations sound better than anything else available if one wants to re-live the "old days." Better yet, maybe one should check out the Dennis Edwards Temptations Review when they come to your town, if you are a fan of the Temptations or classic Motown. Then, this set would be a souvenir of sorts. And, what's wrong with that???
Also, Otis Williams' re-assembled Temptations, which I saw in Florida in July, 2006, do a real good job of crowd-pleasing. This group includes former [for a very brief time] Spinners member J.C. Cameron [who sand lead on their classic, "It's a Shame."] who is an incredibly gifted vocalist. Plus, the replacement for the late, venerable bass Melvin Franklin, is vocally very strong.
How's THAT for a fair and balanced review? Happy listening!
Don't waste your money.......2002-11-08
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Live At Temptations: Summer '04
Denny Tsettos Manufacturer: Dee Vee Music ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00027JYI0 Release Date: 2004-05-25 |
Tracks:
- Think About The Music - DJ Moody (exclusive track)
- Heart Attack - Jahkey B. - (featuring Satta)
- Touch The Sky - Thick Dick (Camel Riders mix)
- Stupid Disco - Junior Jack
- Get Down - Mike Monday (D. Ramirez remix)
- Take Control - Jameson (Lee Caberera mix)
- Voodoo Love - Phase 2
- Born Too Slow - The Crystal Method (Eric Morillo dub)
- Electrified - Bailey (Peter Bailey mix)
- That Look - DeLacy (Tsettos & Santana mix)
- Rainwater - Astrid Suryanto (Victor Calderone mix)
- Angel - Joee (Denny Tsettos 2004 mix)
Customer Reviews:
Dripping with Guido Sweat..........2004-06-07
(...). Recorded the night of the infamous "Von Dutch Riots", if you listen close, you can here the local sounds that have enticed travelers to the Jersey Shore for hundreds of years -- the waves crashing on the beach...the water guns being shot in the mouth of a ceramic clown...the girls named "Bella" mooing.
No matter where you are, this disc will relieve you of life's drama, and let you relive the times driving down the GSP in the leased import luxury sedan your parents gave you for "graduating" community college. Simply put, this is the most unique, unforgettable music that you will ever vomit to.
Denny Tsettos [known overseas as the "Irish Horse Face"] plucks each beautiful song like a boisenberry and throws each one in your face, splattering the juice and seeds all over your cheeks and neck. Yeah, take it like a shot of dbol, you vixen you.
Oh, and the song "Hot Shot City" is particularly good.
Every day can be a hot summer night at Temptations.......2004-06-03
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Live As It Gets
Manufacturer: Rremark Records/Exworks ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000059GE5 Release Date: 2001-01-19 |
Tracks:
- I Can't Get Next To You
- Papa Was A Rolling Stone
- Ain't Too Proud To Beg
- Superstar (Remember How..)
- Just My Imagination
- Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
- Masterpiece
- Cloud Nine
- Ball Of Confusioin
- Run Away Child Running Wild
- My Girl
- Keep On Truckin'
- The Way You Do The Things You Do
- I Wish It Would Rain
- Get Ready
- I Know I'm Losing You
- Psychedelic Shack
Album Description
Ready for every major hit the Temptations ever had? Recorded live..this CD features performances by the original TEMPTATIONS. It's a knock out of R&B performing that you won't soon forget.Customer Reviews:
the temptations live as it gets.......2002-12-20
90's so that why it sound so different the only voice that sounds good is Dennis Edwards. there have been about 3 releases of this U.K. cd. one is the original leads of the temps and this one and I forget the other one. It is not live at all and i never have felt so ripped off.
BUYER BEWARE IT STINKS!
the temptations live as it gets.......2002-12-20
90's so that why it sound so different the only voice that sounds good is Dennis Edwards. there have been about 3 releases of this U.K. cd. one is the original leads of the temps and this one and I forget the other one. It is not live at all and i paid [money] dollars and never have felt so ripped off.
BUYER BEWARE IT STINKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COMPLETE GARBAGE!!.......2001-04-05
live?.......2001-02-25
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Temptations Live!
The Temptations Manufacturer: Motown ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000008LGG Release Date: 1992-12-01 |
Tracks:
- Introduction - Scott Regen
- Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)
- What Love Has Joined Together
- My Girl
- Yesterday/What Now My Love
- Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
- Group Introduction
- I Wish You Love
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg
- Ol' Man River
- Get Ready
- Fading Away
- My Baby
- You'll Lose a Precious Love
- Baby, Baby I Need You
- Don't Look Back
- Way You Do the Things You Do [*]
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Live at the Copa/With a Lot of Soul
The Temptations Manufacturer: Motown ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000008LGE Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Introduction
- Get Ready
- You're My Everything
- I Truly, Truly Believe
- I Wish It Would Rain
- For Once in My Life
- I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
- Introduction of the Band and Group
- Hello, Young Lovers
- With These Hands
- Swanee
- Impossible Dream
- Please Return Your Love to Me
- (I Know) I'm Losing You
- Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone
- All I Need
- (Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need
- No More Water in the Well
- Save My Love for a Rainy Day
- Just One Last Look
- Sorry Is a Sorry Word
- Now That You've Won Me
- Two Sides to Love
- Don't Send Me Away
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Live at the Copa
The Temptations Manufacturer: Motown ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00008FF1U Release Date: 1991-07-01 |
Tracks:
- Introduction
- Get Ready
- You're My Everything
- I Truly, Truly Believe
- I Wish It Would Rain
- For Once in My Life
- I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
- Introduction of Band and Group
- Hello, Young Lovers
- With These Hands
- Swanee
- Impossible Dream
- Please Return Your Love to Me
- (I Know) I'm Losing You
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