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Greatest Hits is a 1966 greatest hits album for The Temptations, released by the Gordy label.It peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 album chart and remained on the chart for 120 weeks.
Greatest Hits II: 1970 15 2 — 28 RIAA: Gold [11] Anthology (re-released with additional tracks in 1986 and 1995) 1973 65 5 — — RIAA: Platinum [11] All the Million Sellers: 1981 — — — — RIAA: Platinum [11] Great Songs and Performances That Inspired the Motown 25th Anniversary T.V. Special: 1983 — — — — RIAA: Gold [11] The ...
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" is a 1966 song and hit single by the Temptations for Motown Records' Gordy label, [2] produced by Norman Whitfield and written by Whitfield and Edward Holland Jr. The song peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Pop Chart, and was a number-one hit on the Billboard R&B charts for eight non-consecutive weeks. [3]
Here are the Temptations 25 best songs, from David Ruffin-led "My Girl" to "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and other greatest hits from the movie and play.
"My Girl" climbed to the top of the U.S. pop charts on March 6, 1965, after its Christmas time 1964 release, making it the Temptations' first number 1 hit. The single was also the first number 1 hit on the reinstated Billboard R&B Singles chart, which had gone on a fifteen-month hiatus from 1963 to 1965. [ 14 ]
"Smiling Faces Sometimes" was released as a single for the Undisputed Truth instead, becoming a Top 5 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971. Meanwhile, "It's Summer" peaked at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100, making it the first Temptations single to miss the Top 40 since "Farewell My Love" eight years earlier.
"I Can't Get Next to You" was the second single from the 1969 Temptations LP Puzzle People, with "Running Away (Ain't Gonna Help You)", a ballad led by Paul Williams, as the b-side. The single was a No. 1 hit on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Billboard Top R&B Singles chart.
"Smiling Faces" was given to The Undisputed Truth, whose recording of the song became a Top 5 pop hit, while the Temptations, reduced to a quartet while searching for a Kendricks replacement, re-recorded "It's Summer", from the Psychedelic Shack album, as a single.