Product Review

In 1961, The Temptations signed to the Motown subsidiary Miracle. A decade later, the group had journeyed through R&B, soul, funk, psychedelia and the arrival of charged politics in their music-and they stood at the top of the Motown heap. This 50th-anniversary set is the first to collect every single in that span; rare early cuts (including their first single Oh Mother of Mine and local hit I Want a Love I Can See ) lead to a wall of Tempts classics: the smashes My Girl; It's Growing; Since I Lost My Baby; Get Ready; Ain't Too Proud to Beg; My Baby; Beauty Is Only Skin Deep; (I Know) I'm Losing You; All I Need; You're My Everything; It's You That I Need; I Wish It Would Rain; I Could Never Love Another; Cloud Nine; Run Away Child, Running Wild 74 in all!