I liked
the Temptations and the other Motown acts when I was growing up in the sixties,
but until Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder really took charge of their own careers
with classic albums such as What’s Going
On and Innervisions, I didn’t
really buy Motown LPs. (In my defense, as was the custom of the time, most of
them contained a couple of hits and a lot of filler.) I probably just bought
the Temptations In A Mellow Mood
album on a whim; it’s certainly not as though it had any hits on it. It’s
extremely well done though, with great soulful arrangements of show tunes and
some other standards that I wouldn’t necessarily have cared for in versions by
other artists. “The Impossible Dream” is the best of the bunch – it brings a lump
to my throat whenever I hear it.
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