With Otis Williams, the founding and sole surviving member of The Temptations, their popularity is ever-increasing and their track record of continuing to sell decades worth of history-making music is breathtaking. The Temptations signed their first contract with Motown on May 15, What began in Detroit in , when a remarkable combination of soulful voices united, was the genesis of an epic journey that has introduced multiple superstars to the world and produced some of the greatest musical masterpieces in the Modern Era.
Music is a universal language, and I know our music, throughout the years has brought people joy, comfort and sometimes even hope.
I truly hope that was our greater purpose on earth. Some of the greatest moments in my life have been watching countless fans, from different walks of life worldwide, come together around any one of our songs. I am truly grateful to each and every one of them. We, plan to go back on tour later this summer and, me and my brothers, Ron Tyson and Terry Weeks, Temptations for the past 38 years and 24 years respectively, along with Willie Greene, Jr. Waaay back. For Williams, the diamond-anniversary project has been invigorating and sentimental — a chance to look back on a musical life of shared triumphs and personal tragedies, of groundbreaking artistry and career perseverance, and a story forged all those years ago in Detroit.
The world has still accepted and loved this group in spite of ourselves. The new album, formally announced Friday by Universal Music after months of teasers, is the cornerstone of a yearlong 60th anniversary campaign unveiled by the Temptations in the spring. More: New single pairs the Temptations with Smokey Robinson for first collaboration in decades.
They release nine albums, seven of which are studio albums, between the spring of and spring of In that time frame, they start out with Smokey Robinson as their major producer and then transition to songs written and produced by Norman Whitfield. According to published reports at the time, the television special won its time slot, was named the top-rated television variety show in and received an Emmy nomination.
In July , Motown put together a major television special for the group called The Temptations Show. In November of that same year, a third national television special, G. An accompanying soundtrack album by Diana Ross and the Supremes and the Temptations was released in advance of the television special.
The Temptations help change the face of primetime television and fuel the growth in the performing arts and entertainment world for African American artists forever. That album becomes the final album featuring Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams, who are original members of both the first and second classic lineups. They, too, like the second classic line-up, record and release three, consecutive 1 albums: Solid Rock January 11, , All Directions July 27, , and Masterpiece February 21, This is the last album featuring Damon Harris, who replaced Eddie Kendricks.
They release two albums under their new label, but within a few years, they re-join Motown under a multi-album, multi-year deal. In the Eighties, the group, enjoys another huge wave of success that begins with the idea for a reunion tour with David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks.
The famous Reunion tour marks the first time Ruffin and Kendricks are back with the group in 14 years. The Reunion tour takes off in and Motown releases the Reunion album on April 7, The tour ends in November of the same year and the group goes back to its pre-Reunion tour lineup.
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