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  • Audio CD (23 Oct 2000)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: Universal / Island
  • ASIN: B00004WZ5P
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 15,137 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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1. Cloud Nine - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
2. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
3. Runaway Child, Running Wild - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
4. Love Is A Hurtin' Thing - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
5. Hey Girl - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
6. Why Did She Have To Leave Me (Why Did She Have To Go) - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
7. I Need Your Lovin' - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
8. Don't Let Him Take Your Love From Me - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
9. I Gotta Find A Way (To Get You Back) - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
10. Gonna Keep On Tryin' Till I Win Your Love - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
11. I Can't Get Next To You - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
12. Hey Jude - The Temptations
13. Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
14. Message From A Black Man - Norman Whitfield, The Temptations
15. It's Your Thing - The Temptations
16. Little Green Apples - The Temptations
17. You Don't Love Me No More - The Temptations
18. Since I've Lost You - The Temptations
19. Running Away (Ain't Gonna Help You) - The Temptations
20. That's The Way Love Is - The Temptations
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Temptations Find Their Niche, 7 Jun 2004
By Laurence Upton (Wilts, UK) - See all my reviews
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In their lengthy and varied career the Temptations had many lead vocalists and many producers but perhaps found their own individual niche most successfully with the producer Norman Whitfield. They had worked with him as early as 1964 as the co-writer of Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue) and then on some of their other hit singles, and he logically became their sole producer from mid-1967 (although he continued to produce for other Motown acts).

However, it was through his work with the Temptations that he pioneered the concept of psychedelic soul, taking his lead from the rock fraternity's musical experimentations following in the wake of the Summer Of Love; from student campuses and parks where black and white students were developing a new revolutionary culture; and from peers like Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone. In the process he became the most audacious auteur producer since Phil Spector, as he concocted ever more complex and ambitious sounds and mould-breaking arrangements. Coupled with Barrett Strong's socially aware lyrics and the Temptations harmonies, featuring new recruit Dennis Edwards' distinctive lead vocals, a new blueprint was forged for soul throughout the 1970s, beginning in 1969 with the single Cloud Nine, targeting the subject of drug abuse, and possibly the first Motown record with a wah-wah guitar. It was also the first track on the LP Cloud Nine, although the centrepiece was a nine-and-a-half minute acid-drenched epic, Run Away Child, Running Wild (also a single in a severely edited form).
 
Norman Whitfield was on a huge roll and Puzzle People followed just five months later, in February 1970, leading with I Can't Get Next To You, on which each of the group take turns to sing lead, and tackling consumer values (Don't Let The Joneses Get You Down) and black issues among its themes. Side one ended with Message From A Black Man, and side two with Slave, sending out clear signals of black consciousness, though the album also contains covers of Hey Jude and, curiously, Little Green Apples (a live album recorded at the Talk Of The Town came out shortly afterwards and was full of standards like The Impossible Dream and Love Theme From Romeo and Juliet, so the Temptations were straddling a very strange fence).

All though one could argue with the logic behind some of the album couplings in this series, and wish for more extensive notes, these are good value for money re-issues presented in well mastered stereo

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome Double, 8 April 2005
By M. Oxley (UK) - See all my reviews
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I agree with the previous reviewer that the majority of these twofers in this series are mismatched, however this does not lesson the enjoyment I get from listening to the rest of the Temptations twofers.

In the case of Cloud Nine/Puzzle People you have two fantastic albums which were actually released one after the other. This in my view allows the listener to hear how the more grittier sound of the Whitfield-Strong era developed.

This development of the more socially aware Temptations, plus the fact that each member of the group has a chance to employ their own distinctive vocal talent makes this release a must for, not just fans of the Temptations, but of lovers of the motown sound.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Two great 1969 albums from Motown stalwarts, 30 Mar 2009
By Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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The members of the Temptations in 1969 were Eddie Kendricks, Paul Williams, Otis Williams, Melvin Franklin and Dennis Edwards. The first album here, Cloud nine, was released in February 1969. It made the top five of the American pop album charts and also made the lower reaches of the UK album charts. Two tracks (the title track and Runaway child) were released as singles. Both peaked at six in the American pop singles but only the title track charted in Britain, where it made the top twenty. In the American R+B chart, the title track peaked at two but Runaway child made it to number one.

This album also features the group's version of the Motown classic I heard it through the grapevine. Apparently, four different versions were recorded of this song before Motown chose to release the one by Gladys Knight and the Pips as a single. It was very successful, but a year later, another of the four original versions, that by Marvin Gaye, was released as a single and it became an international number one hit. Still, the version here, also one of those four original versions, is an excellent version in its own right, though I can't deny that Marvin's version is the best one. The other version making up the quartet was by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, their version appearing on their 1968 album, Special occasion.

The second album here, Puzzle people, was released in September 1969 and made the top five of the American pop album charts and the top twenty in the British album charts. The first single, Don't let the Joneses get you down, just made the top twenty in the American pop charts, while peaking at two in the R+B charts, but failed to chart in Britain. The follow-up, I can't get next to you, fared much better, going to number one in both of those American charts and comfortably making the top twenty in Britain. Two covers are also featured here, these being Hey Jude (the Beatles classic) and Little green apples, a Bobby Russell song made famous by Roger Miller.

There is a lot to like about these two Temptations albums, recorded during their peak period. Serious Temptations fans need both of these wonderful albums.
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