LIKE US The National R&B Music Society facebook/pages/The-National-RB-Music-Society-Inc/459607965482 official website rnbmusicsociety An Iconic Group..... The Temptations. Picture One (1) The Originals and founding members of Temptations: Otis Williams, Paul Williams, Elbridge Al Bryant, Eddie Kendricks, and Melvin Blue Franklin. This group would issue eight recordings between 1961 and 1963 including Oh Mother Of Mine and I want A Love I Can See. Picture Two (2) The CLassic 5 Line Up: Otis Williams, Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin, David Ruffin. January 1964 - 1968, They recorded their hits The Way You Do The Things You Do #1 R&B, Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue), My Girl #1 R&B, Its Growing, Since I Lost My Baby, My Baby, Don’t Look Back, Aint Too Proud to Beg #1 R&B, Beauty Is Only Skin Deep, (I Know) Im Losing You #1 R&B, Youre My Everything, Get Ready #1 R&B, I Wish It Would Rain #1 R&B, I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You) #1 R&B, and Please Return Your Love To Me. They Had 9 top ten albums with 8 at in a row at number One on the R&B chart.. The 9th was a number two. Picture Three (3) The Temptations Dennis Edwards Era. Otis Williams, Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin, and Dennis Edwards. (1968–1977) Cloud Nine, (Grammy Winning Song), Runaway Child, Running Wild (a number-one R&B hit), I Cant Get Next to You (a number-one pop hit) #1 R&B and pop, Psychedelic Shack, and Ball of Confusion (Thats What the World Is Today), Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me) #1 pop Masterpiece #1 R&B. They had 19 top ten albums with 9 going number one on the R&B chart during this era. Over the course of their career, the Temptations have released four Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles and fourteen R&B number-one singles. Their material earned them three Grammy Awards. The Temptations was the first Motown recording act to win a Grammy Award and in 2013 the group received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Six of the Temptations (Edwards, Franklin, Kendricks, Ruffin, Otis Williams and Paul Williams) were inducted to 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 Fames 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The Temptations were also ranked at #68 on the Rolling Stone magazines list of the 100 Greatest Artists of all time.
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