Greatest Hits

by The Temptations

Greatest Hits cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: December 1966
  • Label: Gordy
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 32:26
  • Community rating: 4.13/5 from 3 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

This phenomenally successful collection documents the masterful, incredibly elegant vocal group's ascent to global superstardom under the creative guidance of Smokey Robinson. Featuring immaculate, sweeping orchestrations and the soaring dual lead vocals of David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, the album gathers indispensable, era-defining soul classics like 'My Girl' and 'Get Ready,' cementing their position as the absolute kings of the Motown sound.

Genres

Descriptors: folk, vocal-group, harmonies, call-and-response, polished

Tracklist

  1. The Way You Do The Things You Do (2:37)
  2. My Girl (2:55)
  3. Ain't Too Proud To Beg (2:32)
  4. Don't Look Back (2:50)
  5. Get Ready (2:37)
  6. Beauty Is Only Skin Deep (2:21)
  7. Since I Lost My Baby (2:49)
  8. The Girl's Alright With Me (2:49)
  9. My Baby (2:57)
  10. It's Growing (2:57)
  11. I'll Be In Trouble (2:52)
  12. Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue) (2:10)

Credits

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