At Their Very Best

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
  3.5 ★
• 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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17 Greatest Hits

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Back to Basics

Back to Basics 1983

Surface Thrills

Surface Thrills 1983

Bare Back

Bare Back 1978

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 [1.2-5, 1.8, 1.10, 1.15, 1.21, 2.2, 2.12-13], vocal [11]
• Frank Wilson
  producer [2.7, 1.4, 1.16]
• 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 [1.2-3, 1.7-10, 1.12-15, 1.17-18, 2.8-9, 2.12]
• 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]
• Show all credits (34)

Issues

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  A
  At Their Very Best

  2x CD
  15 January 2001