@@maccabbee2014 lol They're Singing it Together: However The Song and THE TEMPTS Earned SMOKEY Not a penny less than 300 million plus dollars and counting and that's just from MY GIRL..How he sound Now?Love&Peace😁😎luv ya byo eJ
I grew up listening to the original line up. In the late 60s I became a professional drummer never dreaming that in 79 I would have the honor of backing up the temptations, Jr walker, Archie bell and the drells at the jazz festival in Cincinnati. It was the high point of my drumming career. But father time has taken 4 the original Temps. Words can't describe the loss we have all suffered with the loss of David , Eddie, Paul, and Melvin. They set the pace of life, gave hope and the best music all the gold 🥇 in the world can't buy. Dennis Edward's filled big shoes replacing David Ruffin and took the group to even greater heights. Now he's gone. Otis Williams is the sole surviving original. He's a national treasure. If it wasn't for Otis there would have been a temptations.lets respect and love him for the gift he gave us all.
They need to slow down. I never cared for the need to “over perform” and get hyped up and speed up getting carried away. Their timing was horrible and Eddie’s voice just sounded rushed and not nearly as smooth as it usually sounds, even in that era when he was recording.
John Omalley tbh he did sound really off here but u can watch performances here on youtube of eddie in 1975 and hell, even in the 1971 performance of just my imagination he sounded good
Slendus I’m not saying he was bad by any means I’m just saying he’s been smoking for like 14 years at this time and his lungs and voice were still strong enough to hit them notes
@@johnomalley7211 I agree with you. Eddie does NOT sound bad, but on top of smoking he sang falsetto & that higher register is slipping a bit here. But, there's video of him & David live in the 80s & his voice slips to the point where David has to chime in, but Eddie was able to bring it back. I think he could still hit the notes, but he couldnt sustain for a whole song.
Paul Williams died on August 17th,1973. Eddie Kendrick died on October 5th,1992. Melvin Franklin died on February 23rd,1995. Dennis Edwards died on February 1st,2018.
I can’t believe I’m saying this but wow as stunning as Smokey is, I can never take my eyes off of Eddie 😍 He really inspired me to sing again because it’s so hard singing falsetto and having a soft voice. You can’t strain your voice as a falsetto so for him to sing like this live is stunning.
Those TEMPTS are just bad MO FO's...man o man. I love them dudes. I grew up listening to them and got my training in music listening to their harmonies....forever TEMPTS!
You can tell Smokey was literally free styling , it was still organic cause it doesn’t look planned or rehearsed it seem like he just asked them cause they sing my girl together and hey 🤷🏽♂️ they knocked it out the park
Smokey Robinson. The Vice President, and one of the greatest song writers for Motown legends. We all know the singing groups that sang those hit songs?
Profiles in Pittsburgh 🖤💛😘🎥 I'm so thankful that this song has Smokey Robinson and Otis Williams in it. They made The Temptations what they are today. Otis is not alone the only one left because Smokey is right beside him even today. I'm so happy to see this song noanet Otis is not alone. My girl is a song that Smokey enjoy writing for the Temptations and Otis keeps it on the show and everyone still loves the song and the new Temptations singing it. Sister forever Nora Rose Parker Carter.😘❤
❤❤❤❤ yeah smoky Robinson is still alive and nobody has not never celebrated him in his legacy and giving him his flowers. I hope they celebrate him before he’s not in his world anymore and he looks perfect. He looks healthy and he’s doing amazing. I’m just so tired of everybody celebrating people when they’re gone, give him his flowers
What they needed was David ruffin. David sounded like Eddie on ,, you,ll lose a precious love,, for years I thought that was Eddie singing that song, til I saw them do it live. I was so surprised it was David. That David ruffin, what a singer.
I LOVE THESE MEN I’ve listen to them my whole life I’m so sad that I never got to meet the late Eddie Kendricks in the rest of the gang keep going Otis life is good we LOVE YOU ❤️
Man Eddie Kendricks was the falsetto next to Russell Thompkins and Phillip Bailey. You can tell he was sickly in this clip. Good thing Smokey was there to cover
אני שומעת עכשיו שירי רגש אלי ואני רואה בראשי את המחשבה שאני ואתה פוסעים הלאה לשקיעה שאתה מחזיק לי את היד בחוזקה מרגיש את כל השנים שהיו פועמות בך בחוזקה👁️👁️
David Ruffin Had Convinced Eddie Kendricks To Leave The Group After Paul's Sickness Towards His Drinking Problem And Also Being Replaced by Richard Street. Plus Kendricks Also Said That Also Due To The Change Into Psychedelic Soul Which He Didn't Like Also Made Him Quit Too. Kendricks Last Song With The Temptations Was Just My Imagination (1971) The Very Same Night During His Last Hit Song Kendricks Walked Off Stage After The House Lights Dimmed And He Never Looked Back. That's How Eddie Became A Solo Artist
THE ROCK Dwayne Johnson in one of Eddie Kendrick last interviews he said, he never wanted to leave the Temptations. He wanted to do solo Albums and stay in the group, but they didn’t allow it back then.
@jonathanclary3992 ...False! Corn was already gone before "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" was released internationally. Corn appeared on the Ed Sullivan show with the Temptations on two separate cameras. That miniseries was mostly fictitious. Read the book!
EDDIE OUT SUNG SMOKEY LISTEN TO OUT SONGS "WHAT LOVE HAS JOINED TOGETHER" AND "IVE BEEN GOOD TO YOU" THAT SMOKEY AND THE MIRACLES ORIGINAL RECORDED EDDIE TOOK OWNERSHIP OF THEM RECOMMEND TEMPTATIONS SING SMOKEY CD EDDIE SANGING HIS BEHIND OFF IT WAS THE 2ND ALBUM OF THE TEMPTATIONS!!! I KNEW EDDIE PERSONALLY AND TRAVEL WITH THE TEMPTATIONS ALONG WITH DAVID RUFFIN TOO A GOD ANSWERED PRAYER FOR ME
@@gftrell3152 No, this was recorded in the late sixties, and Eddie didn't develop lung cancer until the mid to late eighties. In fact he went on to record several hit albums after he left the Temptations, on which he sounds phenomenal.
They're doing it TOGETHER!!! Go Temptations and Smokey!!
Eddie had the most famous falsetto voice. Smokey did try, so he gets an honour for that.
@@maccabbee2014 lol They're Singing it Together: However The Song and THE TEMPTS Earned SMOKEY Not a penny less than 300 million plus dollars and counting and that's just from MY GIRL..How he sound Now?Love&Peace😁😎luv ya byo eJ
dont matter bc Smokey was their boss so lol .. he was the VP of Motown ..
@@lmfd7373 more importantly he wrote almost all of their material until Whitfield took over.
2020 now and this song still bangin’
All The Temptations Music Is Better than Today's Songs.
@@jonathanclary3992 Absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!
Now it's JSU theme song
Cue the Hueys
YES!
*"I'm David Ruffin.....*
*and these are The Temptations"*
I literally can’t stop looking at that movie, and I think my obsession for Smokey Robinson is coming up again
But David hit the road and that's Dennis!
@414MrMillwaukee ...Ruff never said that, PERIOD!!!
😂😂😂
Damn I'm laughing watching this movie smoking right now...
I grew up listening to the original line up. In the late 60s I became a professional drummer never dreaming that in 79 I would have the honor of backing up the temptations, Jr walker, Archie bell and the drells at the jazz festival in Cincinnati. It was the high point of my drumming career. But father time has taken 4 the original Temps. Words can't describe the loss we have all suffered with the loss of David , Eddie, Paul, and Melvin. They set the pace of life, gave hope and the best music all the gold 🥇 in the world can't buy. Dennis Edward's filled big shoes replacing David Ruffin and took the group to even greater heights. Now he's gone. Otis Williams is the sole surviving original. He's a national treasure. If it wasn't for Otis there would have been a temptations.lets respect and love him for the gift he gave us all.
That last note was hair raisingly good, they really knew each other’s voices, listen to the harmonies. 😱😱😂😂😂😂😂👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Killing it Eddie so smooth
No hes not. He sounds horrible. Right here
@@Malaki727 : 100% agree.. this is not our EDDIE..
Ong
He did die from lung cancer so🤷🏿♂️
@Linda Hines Maybe something to do with Smokey. Smokey?
They need to slow down. I never cared for the need to “over perform” and get hyped up and speed up getting carried away. Their timing was horrible and Eddie’s voice just sounded rushed and not nearly as smooth as it usually sounds, even in that era when he was recording.
I’m sorry Eddies been smoking all them years and Eddie was still able to hold that note at the end it’s crazy
his voice was fine during this time his voice started to wane in the 80s
Slendus eh it sounded like it was getting worse
John Omalley tbh he did sound really off here but u can watch performances here on youtube of eddie in 1975 and hell, even in the 1971 performance of just my imagination he sounded good
Slendus I’m not saying he was bad by any means I’m just saying he’s been smoking for like 14 years at this time and his lungs and voice were still strong enough to hit them notes
@@johnomalley7211 I agree with you. Eddie does NOT sound bad, but on top of smoking he sang falsetto & that higher register is slipping a bit here. But, there's video of him & David live in the 80s & his voice slips to the point where David has to chime in, but Eddie was able to bring it back. I think he could still hit the notes, but he couldnt sustain for a whole song.
So dope Smokie and Eddie singing together thanks for posting
Does life get any better than this? Smoke with The Temps? Oh God....
RIP To my homies Paul, Eddie and Dennis!!
Don't forget about Melvin aka "Blue".
Hollis Sherfield, Jr. I meant homies as in the city, not the state but SALUTE TO MELVIN! A voice like no other✊🏾
@@megaoldskool76 Oh okay, no doubt and I feel you my brother.
Paul Williams died on
August 17th,1973.
Eddie Kendrick died on
October 5th,1992.
Melvin Franklin died on
February 23rd,1995.
Dennis Edwards died on
February 1st,2018.
@@jaylene.turner6524 And David Ruffin Died June 1st 1991
Eddie’s voice was smooth as silk!
smoking destroyed his beautiful voice he tried to quit but he couldn't! so sad!
I can’t believe I’m saying this but wow as stunning as Smokey is, I can never take my eyes off of Eddie 😍 He really inspired me to sing again because it’s so hard singing falsetto and having a soft voice. You can’t strain your voice as a falsetto so for him to sing like this live is stunning.
Smokey should know the lyrics, he wrote it.
Artist forget lyrics all the time
Lol between him and Isaac Hayes they wrote all the lyrics to all the songs
Of course he should I loved Kendricks voice ❤
19 years old, high asf jamming to some good music
Legends of Motown 👌👌
Thanks Somkey for the Great songs you wrote for the baddest Group Ever. Those Awesome Temptations. Love them 💕 ❤️ 💓 Forever
Those TEMPTS are just bad MO FO's...man o man. I love them dudes. I grew up listening to them and got my training in music listening to their harmonies....forever TEMPTS!
I love these men so much. Legends!
Eddie was fine fine fine and that beautiful voice 😊
Rip to all the members of the temptations who are no longer with us we still miss you guy's
All their songs are banging
So true. Great songwriters, great vocalists, great band, great moves. The best of it all
Eddie sang effortlessly, he just has natural pipes❤❤❤❤🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💯💯💯💯💯💯
You can tell Smokey was literally free styling , it was still organic cause it doesn’t look planned or rehearsed it seem like he just asked them cause they sing my girl together and hey 🤷🏽♂️ they knocked it out the park
Smokey Robinson. The Vice President, and one of the greatest song writers for Motown legends. We all know the singing groups that sang those hit songs?
Smokey killed it!!!!
Love this performance
This was a treat
Profiles in Pittsburgh 🖤💛😘🎥
I'm so thankful that this song has Smokey Robinson and Otis Williams in it. They made The Temptations what they are today. Otis is not alone the only one left because Smokey is right beside him even today. I'm so happy to see this song noanet Otis is not alone. My girl is a song that Smokey enjoy writing for the Temptations and Otis keeps it on the show and everyone still loves the song and the new Temptations singing it. Sister forever Nora Rose Parker Carter.😘❤
Throw back...LOVE IT..💖💖💖💖💖💜
pharell and smokey robinson can pull out as a father and son...kinda vibe.
Ivan - L😁 L do you remember Aretha Franklin's song *Ain't No Way * ?July 2,2020
Smokey a monster
Always has been. 💯
Insane tempo
DAMN I want those lights in the background
❤❤❤❤ yeah smoky Robinson is still alive and nobody has not never celebrated him in his legacy and giving him his flowers. I hope they celebrate him before he’s not in his world anymore and he looks perfect. He looks healthy and he’s doing amazing. I’m just so tired of everybody celebrating people when they’re gone, give him his flowers
What they needed was David ruffin. David sounded like Eddie on ,, you,ll lose a precious love,, for years I thought that was Eddie singing that song, til I saw them do it live. I was so surprised it was David. That David ruffin, what a singer.
Parabéns 👏👏👏👏👏 Edie saudoso, Smokey Robson bravo! 👏👏👏👏
Legends
😭 where did you find this? I love it love it. Thanks for posting ♥️. Man ain't nothing like Motown.
This was from the Smokey Robinson tv special. It aired back in September of 1970
@@GarwinWayne ...THE SMOKEY ROBINSON SHOW was first aired nationally on December 18th, 1970, ABC-TV.
I vaguely remember this TV special. I think Smokey Robinson and The Miracles sang "The Tears of a Clown" among other songs!
I LOVE THESE MEN I’ve listen to them my whole life I’m so sad that I never got to meet the late Eddie Kendricks in the rest of the gang keep going Otis life is good we LOVE YOU ❤️
Smokey certainly did.He wrote it
Love this performance classic
Classic!
2021!!!!!
The temptations is supernatural. With a bad voice I Could still connect with Eddie. Well done
I think here he was just tired, his voice diminished in the mid to late 70s
@@061romellbut that’s when he developed back into that chest/mixed resonance listen to goodnight pillow it’s very beautiful. Came out in 87.
That was great I think Smokey Robinson is very cute and the tempting temptations
Best 💃 song ever ❤ My Dad Dennis and I used to dance to this together in our Gary Duplex when I was very little 😍
The best their has ever been.
The BEST!!!,
Man Eddie Kendricks was the falsetto next to Russell Thompkins and Phillip Bailey. You can tell he was sickly in this clip. Good thing Smokey was there to cover
Not yet this was between 68-71 his voice issue came mid to late 70s and cancer in te 80s. I think he was tired here
2023 and beyond!!!!!
Love it #UncleEddie 💯
Smokey tryna keep up ☺️
So cool!!!
Lol why do all the temps make smokey look short as hell lmao. Love the temps tho
Everyone in the Temptations requirement was they had to be over 6' tall believe it or not. And they all must be capable of singing the lead role.
Because all the temps were 6’0-6’4.
Because the temptations were all 6’0-6’4.
Smokey took me out at how he looked back at Eddie when he grabbed the mic😂😂
😭😭❤️
😍
אני שומעת עכשיו שירי רגש אלי ואני רואה בראשי את המחשבה שאני ואתה פוסעים הלאה לשקיעה שאתה מחזיק לי את היד בחוזקה מרגיש את כל השנים שהיו פועמות בך בחוזקה👁️👁️
Fucking Beautiful
this is the take : )
Old Eddie Kendricks what a talent
Eu amo muitoooo!!!
Eddie Fine Fine Fine💯
Smokeys a funny guy
This wad very funny with smokey
David Ruffin Had Convinced Eddie Kendricks To Leave The Group After Paul's Sickness Towards His Drinking Problem And Also Being Replaced by Richard Street. Plus Kendricks Also Said That Also Due To The Change Into Psychedelic Soul Which He Didn't Like Also Made Him Quit Too. Kendricks Last Song With The Temptations Was Just My Imagination (1971) The Very Same Night During His Last Hit Song Kendricks Walked Off Stage After The House Lights Dimmed And He Never Looked Back. That's How Eddie Became A Solo Artist
THE ROCK Dwayne Johnson in one of Eddie Kendrick last interviews he said, he never wanted to leave the Temptations. He wanted to do solo Albums and stay in the group, but they didn’t allow it back then.
@@ednoroirika your right but not only that but Eddie tried to convince Otis at that time to reconsider rehiring Ruffin.
@Linda Hinesa habit that so many people can't shake.. that was his addiction..smoking
@jonathanclary3992 ...False! Corn was already gone before "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" was released internationally. Corn appeared on the Ed Sullivan show with the Temptations on two separate cameras. That miniseries was mostly fictitious. Read the book!
My song
You do😁
🗣️ RELEASE THE FOOTAGES
I wanna see "Live at the Copa 1968" and "London talk of the town 1970" lol
LAWD SMOKEY PRESSURE!
By the way ,Smokey wrote this song for The Temptations. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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This is the ball of confusion concert. Does anyone know the name of the show?
EDDIE OUT SUNG SMOKEY LISTEN TO OUT SONGS "WHAT LOVE HAS JOINED TOGETHER" AND "IVE BEEN GOOD TO YOU" THAT SMOKEY AND THE MIRACLES ORIGINAL RECORDED EDDIE TOOK OWNERSHIP OF THEM RECOMMEND TEMPTATIONS SING SMOKEY CD EDDIE SANGING HIS BEHIND OFF IT WAS THE 2ND ALBUM OF THE TEMPTATIONS!!! I KNEW EDDIE PERSONALLY AND TRAVEL WITH THE TEMPTATIONS ALONG WITH DAVID RUFFIN TOO A GOD ANSWERED PRAYER FOR ME
When was this? 1970? 1971? Because Paul's still there.
Fall 1970
What yr was this performed?
naturalpn7 1970 on the Smokey Robinson show
Guys That was too fast
Probably sped it up because of tv time
Joe Smith way too fast
It often happened to fill short TV slots. Especially cabaret sets.
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🌍❤️✨🎶🎶
All of them had that 29 inch waist back then. LOL. Same here at that age.
I notice in all the old videos you can only have one mic and there was no lip sync
Something is missing here.. half of the audience didn't clap☹
Was Eddie losing his voice?
Yeah from smoking so much
@@gftrell3152 I didn't know that he smoked at all. That's sad. He had such a great voice..
I wish it wasnt so fast
😭💙🤣
Smokey doing a little Ruffin move at :7, Paul Williams very sick by this point still holding it together like the consummate pro on this number.
You can see the effects of the smoking on Eddie Kendricks voice here
Why is it so fast
I don't, know when this was recorded, but smokey and Eddie look young. Eddie just didn,t sound good at all.
eddie was doing it to fast and off key
He may have been sick
1970
But Dad...it's Smokey!
Damn was the drummer auditioning for a punk band haha.
The temptations high asf lol
Everybody up there rolling & dgaf. 🤣
Eddie didn’t look into this. Something was bothering him here.
It was Dennis, he was never friend with Dennis like he was with David
Not one of their greatest performances, in my opinion, and I love the Temps. I think Eddie was just having an off day?
@@gftrell3152 No, this was recorded in the late sixties, and Eddie didn't develop lung cancer until the mid to late eighties. In fact he went on to record several hit albums after he left the Temptations, on which he sounds phenomenal.
Smokey better know the lyrics.....he wrote them 🤨🤣
The performance was great, but the lead vocal microphone was extremely "dry"...
Eddie was my favorite, so I may be prejudiced by saying he shone in this number.
:D
49 people are deaf to talent.
You can tell Bob Marley was inspired a little by Smokey style