Cloud Nine/Puzzle People [Original recording remastered] [Import]

Product 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, 'Cloud Nine' (1969) and 'Puzzle People' (1969) together on 1 CD. Packaged in a full color slipcase with original artwork and 8 page booklet. The former LP hit #4 & is available separately in the U.S. with a $9.97 suggested list; the latter reached #5 & is unavailable in the U.S.

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Average customer rating: Buyer beware Norman Whitfield masterclass I'm doing fine CLOUDNINE/PUZZLE PEOPLE

Cloud Nine/Puzzle People The Temptations Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Classic R&B | R&B | Styles | Music General | R&B | Styles | Music Motown | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Oldies | Pop | Styles | Music R&B | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Psychedelic Shack/All Directions Wish It Would Rain/In a Mellow Mood Sky's the Limit Song for You/Masterpiece Gettin' Ready ASIN: B00004WZ5P Release Date: 2000-12-12

Tracks:

1. Cloud Nine
2. I Heard It Through the Grapevine
3. Runaway Child, Running Wild
4. Love Is a Hurtin' Thing
5. Hey Girl (I Like Your Style)
6. Why Did She Have to Leave Me (Why Did She Have to Go?)
7. I Need Your Lovin'
8. Don't Let Him Take Your Love from Me
9. I Gotta Find a Way (To Get You Back)
10. Gonna Keep on Tryin' Till I Win Your Love
11. I Can't Get Next to You
12. Hey Jude
13. Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down
14. Message from a Black Man
15. It's Your Thing
16. Little Green Apples
17. You Don't Love Me Any More
18. Since I've Lost You
19. Running Away (Ain't Gonna Help You)
20. That's the Way Love Is
21. Slave

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, 'Cloud Nine' (1969) and 'Puzzle People' (1969) together on 1 CD. Packaged in a full color slipcase with original artwork and 8 page booklet. The former LP hit #4 & is available separately in the U.S. with a $9.97 suggested list; the latter reached #5 & is unavailable in the U.S.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered 2-On-1 CD with Two of the Temps Original Great Albums.

Customer Reviews:

Buyer beware.......2006-06-24

One should be aware that this disc does not contain the original album (Cloud Nine). Runaway Child here is the radio edit, the four minute version as opposed to the nine minute version that appeared on the original album. The editing of songs seems to be a common practice in these Temptation two-fer's. So if you want the entire album as originally issued they should be shyed away from.

Norman Whitfield masterclass.......2005-03-28

In their lengthy and varied career the Temptations had many lead vocalists and many producers but perhaps found their own individual niche most successfully with the producer Norman Whitfield. They had worked with him as early as 1964 as the co-writer of Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue) and then on some of their other hit singles, and he logically became their sole producer from mid-1967 (although he continued to produce for other Motown acts).

However, it was through his work with the Temptations that he pioneered the concept of psychedelic soul, taking his lead from the rock fraternity's musical experimentations following in the wake of the Summer Of Love; from student campuses and parks where black and white students were developing a new revolutionary culture; and from peers like Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone. In the process he became the most audacious auteur producer since Phil Spector, as he concocted ever more complex and ambitious sounds and mould-breaking arrangements. Coupled with Barrett Strong's socially aware lyrics and the Temptations harmonies, featuring new recruit Dennis Edwards' distinctive lead vocals, a new blueprint was forged for soul throughout the 1970s, beginning in 1969 with the single Cloud Nine, targeting the subject of drug abuse, and possibly the first Motown record with a wah-wah guitar.

It was also the first track on the LP Cloud Nine, although the centrepiece was a nine-and-a-half minute acid-drenched epic, Run Away Child, Running Wild (also a single in a severely edited form). 

Norman Whitfield was on a huge roll and Puzzle People followed just five months later, in February 1970, leading with I Can't Get Next To You, on which each of the group take turns to sing lead, and tackling consumer values (Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down) and black issues among its themes. Side one ended with Message From A Black Man, and side two with Slave, sending out clear signals of black consciousness, though the album also contains covers of Hey Jude and, curiously, Little Green Apples (a live album recorded at the Talk Of The Town came out shortly afterwards and was full of standards like The Impossible Dream and Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet, so the Temptations were straddling a very strange fence).

All though one could argue with the logic behind some of the album couplings in this series, and wish for more extensive notes, these are good value for money re-issues presented in well mastered stereo

I'm doing fine.......2004-02-09

This CD features two Temptations albums from the late '60s. They are typical of Motown albums from the '60s, which usually featured one or two hits, and a lot of filler. In the case of Cloud Nine, the hits are "Cloud Nine" and "Runaway Child, Running Wild". The hits from Puzzle People are "I Can't Get Next To You" and "Don't Let the Jones Get You Down". These are great songs, but most of the rest of the songs aren't that interesting (although the cover version of "Hey Jude" has it's moments). This CD is for hardcore Motown fans only.

CLOUDNINE/PUZZLE PEOPLE.......2003-08-15

THIS IS A GREAT CD FROM THE TEMPTATIONS YOU SOULD GO AND GET THIS ONE

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Cloud Nine Puzzle People Temptations Manufacturer: Phantom Sound & Vision ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000BRHX3E Release Date: 2004-01-01

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