At Their Very Best - The Temptations

At Their Very Best

Compilation by The Temptations

Released 15 January 2001

Tracklist

CD 1: The Temptations - At Their Very Best
1
My Girl
2:43
4.5 ★
2
Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)
3:48
4.4 ★
3
Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today)
4:06
4.0 ★
4
I’m Gonna Make You Love Me
Diana Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations
3:07
2.6 ★
5
Get Ready
2:33
4.0 ★
6
Treat Her Like a Lady
4:16
3.5 ★
7
Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone
6:58
3.4 ★
8
I Can’t Get Next to You
2:53
2.5 ★
9
Take a Look Around
3:11
10
Cloud Nine
3:31
3.6 ★
11
I Second That Emotion
Diana Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations
2:20
12
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
2:22
3.0 ★
13
(I Know) I’m Losing You
2:24
3.2 ★
14
Ain’t Too Proud to Beg
2:32
4.4 ★
15
You’re My Everything
3:10
3.4 ★
16
Why (Must We Fall in Love)
Diana Ross & The Supremes and The Temptations
3:04
17
Psychedelic Shack
3:51
2.8 ★
18
Superstar (Remember How You Got Where You Are)
2:52
19
It’s Growing
2:57
2.0 ★
20
I Wish It Would Rain
2:43
21
The Way You Do the Things You Do
2:40
2.5 ★
CD 2: The Temptations - At Their Very Best
1
I’m Here
3:58
2
I’ll Be in Trouble
2:56
3
Girl
2:17
4
Since I Lost My Baby
2:50
2.0 ★
5
My Baby
3:02
2.0 ★
6
Don’t Look Back
2:51
7
All I Need
3:10
1.0 ★
8
(Loneliness Made Me Realize) It’s You That I Need
2:38
1.0 ★
9
I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
3:32
1.0 ★
10
Run Away Child, Running Wild
4:44
11
This Is My Promise
7:21
12
Please Return Your Love to Me
2:23
1.0 ★
13
Standing on the Top, Part 1
4:22
1.0 ★
14
Shaky Ground
4:03
2.5 ★
15
Power
4:11
16
Selfish Reasons
4:50
17
Night & Day
3:57
18
Some Enchanted Evening
5:24
19
Stay
3:56
20
I’m Here (remix)
4:11

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Release credits

Al Cleveland
producer [11]
Al McKay
producer [6]
Ali Ollie Woodson
lead vocals [6]
Benny Benjamin
drums (drum set) [1]
Berry Gordy
executive [13], producer [14]
Damon Harris
lead vocals [7, 18]
David Ruffin
background vocals [5, 21], lead vocals [1.1, 1.12-14, 1.19, 2.4-5, 2.8-9, 2.13]
Dennis Edwards
lead vocals [2.13-14, 1.3, 1.7-8, 1.10, 1.17-18]
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
strings [1]
Diana Ross
lead vocals [4]
Eddie Kendricks
background vocals [1, 14], lead vocals [2.2, 2.12-13, 1.2-5, 1.8, 1.10, 1.15, 1.21], vocal [11]
Frank Wilson
producer [1.4, 1.16, 2.7]
James Anthony Carmichael
horn [14]
James Jamerson
bass [1]
Jeffrey Bowen
producer [14]
Mary Jane Girls
additional [13], background vocals [13], lead vocals [13]
Melvin Franklin
background vocals [5, 14, 21], lead vocals [5, 18], vocal [8]
Nickolas Ashford
producer [4]
Norman Whitfield
producer [2.8-9, 2.12, 1.2-3, 1.7-10, 1.12-15, 1.17-18]
Otis Williams
background vocals [1, 5, 14, 21], spoken vocals [4], vocal [8]
Paul Riser
arranger [4, 7, 11], conductor [7], strings [1]
Paul Williams
background vocals [1, 5, 14, 21], lead vocals [1.3, 1.8, 1.10, 2.6]
Ralph Johnson
producer [6]
Richard Street
lead vocals [7, 18]
Rick James
additional [13], arranger [13], background vocals [13], lead vocals [13], performer [13], producer [13]
Robert White
guitar [1]
Ronald White
producer [1]
Smokey Robinson
producer [1.1, 1.5, 1.11, 1.19, 1.21, 2.2, 2.4-6]
Suzee Ikeda
executive [6]
Terry Johnson
producer [11]
The Andantes
background vocals [19]
The Funk Brothers
instrument [1, 5, 8, 14, 21]
The Temptations
lead vocals [17], performer [1], vocal [2]
Victor Carstarphen
arranger [6]

Issues

A
At Their Very Best
2x CD
15 January 2001