Temptations music video Papa Was A Rollin' Stone (Promo 1972)
Temptations Feat. Rick James music video Standing On The Top
Temptations music video Stay
Temptations music video I'm Here
Temptations Feat. Rick James music video Standing On The Top
Temptations music video Time After Time
Temptations music video I Wonder Who She's Seeing Now
Temptations music video Papa Was A Rollin' Stone (From "Soul Train" Episode 67, August 11, 1973)
Temptations Feat. Rick James music video Standing On The Top
Temptations music video My Girl
Temptations music video The Way You Do The Things You Do
Temptations music video Soul To Soul
Temptations music video I Wonder Who She's Seeing Now
Temptations music video I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (From The Ed Sullivan Show 1969)
Temptations music video Run Away Child, Running Wild (From The Ed Sullivan Show 1969)
Temptations music video Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me) (From The Ed Sullivan Show 1971)
Temptations music video Get Ready (From The Ed Sullivan Show 1971)
Temptations music video I Can't Get Next To You (From The Ed Sullivan Show 1969)
Temptations music video You've Made Me So Very Happy (From The Ed Sullivan Show 1970)
Temptations music video Don't Look Back (From The Ed Sullivan Show 1967)
Temptations music video Psychedelic Shack (From The Ed Sullivan Show 1970)
Temptations music video My Girl - (I Know) I'm Losing You (From The Ed Sullivan Show 1967)
Temptations music video Soul To Soul
Temptations music video My Girl
Temptations music video I'm Here
Temptations music video All I Want From You
Temptations music video How Could He Hurt You
Temptations music video Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
Temptations Feat. Rick James music video Standing On The Top
Temptations music video My Girl
Temptations music video My Girl
Rod Stewart With The Temptations music video The Motown Song
Temptations music video Treat Her Like A Lady
Temptations music video Get Ready
Temptations music video My Girl
Temptations music video Treat Her Like A Lady
Temptations music video My Girl
Featuring five male vocalists and dancers (save for brief periods with less or more members), the group formed in 1960 in Detroit, Michigan under the name "The Elgins". The original founding members were originally members of two rival Detroit vocal groups: Otis Williams, Elbridge "Al" Bryant, and Melvin Franklin of Otis Williams & the Distants, and Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams of The Primes. In 1964, Bryant was replaced by David Ruffin, who was the lead vocalist on a number of the group's biggest hits, including "My Girl" (1964), "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" (1966), and "I Wish It Would Rain" (1967). Ruffin was replaced in 1968 by Dennis Edwards, with whom the group continued to record hit records such as "Cloud Nine" (1968) and "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)" (1970). The group's lineup has changed frequently since the departures of Kendricks and Paul Williams from the act in 1971. Later members of the group have included singers such as Richard Street, Damon Harris, Ron Tyson, and Ali-Ollie Woodson, with whom the group scored a late-period hit in 1984 with "Treat Her Like a Lady".
Over the course of their career, the Temptations have released four Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles and fourteen R&B number-one singles, and their material has earned them three Grammy Awards. The Temptations were the first Motown recording act to win a Grammy Award - for "Cloud Nine" in 1969 - and in 2013 received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Six of the Temptations (Edwards, Franklin, Kendricks, Ruffin, Otis Williams and Paul Williams) were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989. Three classic Temptations songs, "My Girl", "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)", and "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone", are among The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The Temptations were also ranked at #68 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists of all time.