As a fan of a wide variety of popular (and not-so-popular) music from the 1950s (and sometimes even earlier) up through the present, one of my bucket list projects for years has been to put together a list of my 100 favorite songs of all time. At some point I decided that, once I got around to figuring that out, I could put it out on a blog, for the infinitesimally small proportion of the Internet world that might be interested. So, here we are. While the Top 100 will be a major focus, I also plan to post on a variety of other musical (and occasionally non-musical) topics, in which you may or may not be interested. (If a particular posting doesn’t ring your bell, you’re only a few clicks away from a dancing cat video on YouTube.)

Saturday, May 2, 2015

LP #14 The Temptations – In A Mellow Mood (1967)


A man whose taste is eerily similar to mine noted last year that this album is “extremely well done … with great soulful arrangements of show tunes and some other standards.” That pretty much sums it up; obviously the Temps did a great job on songs by Motown writers such as Smokey Robinson, Norman Whitfield, and Barrett Strong, but this LP shows that they could bring a “Lot O’ Soul” (to borrow from the title of their previous album) to other material as well. In more recent years, established artists releasing “standards” albums has almost become a cliché, but this one is one of the best ever in that genre.
 
Favorite tracks:
Ol’ Man River
Try To Remember
Hello, Young Lovers
With These Hands

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