★★★★★
My Girl has the beat and lyrics you can't resist to smile or maybe even sing about. If this song doesn't make you do a thing then I don't know what would. The song is how a guy expresses his love about his girl and all the great things he thinks about her on a daily basis. I bet his girlfriend's heart melted when she heard this song, because what girl could resist true feelings along with great music...
- www.bigsmilemagazine.com
2010-12-13
★★★★★
After 40 years at Motown - interrupted only by a short stint at Atlantic Records in the late 70s - the Temptations have left the label for its newly formed Universal sister company, New Door Records. So it is ironic that the group's first release on New Door is Reflections, a fifteen song collection of covers of some of Motown's greatest songs...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
As the 1980s arrived, the Temptations were considered DOA. After a long slow decline on Motown followed by two overlooked albums on Atlantic, the group that had rightly earned the crown as the greatest male R&B group of all time was reduced to an oldies act, with only two original members and no hits left in the tank. Then Motown founder Berry Gordy, Jr...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Though they have only rarely written or produced their own material, there is a reason why the Temptations are still recording and selling music after nearly a half century. Part of it may have been luck, but a bigger part has been an impressive knack for teaming with the right producers and songwriters over those many years...
- www.soultracks.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Within po-faced music cliques, any band that has the temerity to leave your actual playing of instruments and song writing duties to others, is instantly dismissed as manufactured. This is blatantly absurd and for irrefutable proof, look no further than The Temptations who rightly rank alongside The Beatles, Velvets, Clash, Smiths and Nirvana as one of the greatest groups in pop history. 'At Their Very Best' does exactly what it says on the tin...
- uk.launch.yahoo.com
2010-07-31
★★★★★
Briefly, and broadly speaking, The Temptations' first wave of hits were written and produced by Smokey Robinson. When that began to wane, Norman Whitfield, a self-confident and enthusiastic emerging writer-producer who'd charted with The Marvelettes and The Velvelettes, and would write the eternal I Heard It Through The Grapevine, took over. His main thrust would become a reliance on the tougher tenors of David Ruffin and, when Ruffin quit in 1968, Dennis Edwards...
- www.mojo4music.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
This week is 1968 Week on MOJO, and every Disc Of The Day will reflect that theme. Despite the revolution outside and turmoil inside Motown - hit machine Holland-Dozier-Holland had quit in a dispute over royalties - the hits kept coming because of Norman Whitfield, the producer destined to keep Motown ahead of the times. Whitfield did not produce all of Wish It Would Rain, but the best tracks are his...
- www.mojo4music.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
It's no accident that the best cut here begins "Ain't no words to this song." For all the hyperactivity of his horn charts, Norman Whitfield is a lot better equipped to get funky than to lead Motown's belated raid on "relevance," and many of these lyrics are dreadful. Several of them are quite all right, though, and "War" does help mitigate the climactic wishy-wash of "Friendship Train...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
★★★★★
In which a major club attraction, its hitmaking days apparently past, essays "A Holland Group Production Inc." in hopes of postponing the transition to oldies act.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-17
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