It might sound like an understatement or faint praise to say that “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations” is worthy of the band of its title. But there’s no such thing as being merely ...

The recorded work of The Temptations is a part of the American experience. Timeless songs such as "My Girl," "The Way You Do the Things You Do," "Get Ready" "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" and "Ain't Too ...

Fittingly, “Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations” starts off with a song, the first of more than 30 packed into the show at Belk Theater Tuesday night. No overture. No exposition.

Few people can simply pop into a theater and see their life story unfold on stage. Or lay claim to music and lyrics you know by heart just from hearing those first few notes. But then, few people are ...

Here's a name you should know: Norman Whitfield. Whitfield, a Detroit native, went to work for Motown in 1959, when he was 19. He started out in the quality-control department, helping founder Berry ...

You can never say that Motown’s Berry Gordy didn’t get the most out of his cadre of recording artists. It’s no shock that when those albums hit No. 1 (‘TCB’) and No. 2 (‘Join’) on the album charts, ...

Sixty years ago, The Temptations released “My Girl,” a timeless and classic love song that’s been played countless times. When you hear the lyrics “I've got sunshine on a cloudy day,” you know exactly ...

"My Girl" is one of those moments when pop music becomes as great as it possibly can be, when everything works with everything else in ways that elevate all of it. It's the type of song that can make ...

Turning points in music history are almost always more complicated than they appear at first glance. That's exactly the case with the Temptations' "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)," which ...

“My Girl” knocked Gary Lewis & the Playboys’ “This Diamond Ring” from the top spot of the Hot 100. It spent one week at No. 1 before being replaced by The Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week.” [RELATED: The ...

I FLASHED MY daylong bus pass at the subway station attendant just as I noticed the tune he was singing, only slightly above a whisper. “I never heard about or caught her playing. “ A line from the ...