Comments on: "Camouflage" – Performed by The Temptations (1962 & 1967)

By: sondan

sondan — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:54:07 +0000

Well said Amber. I do agree with you 200 per cent about the evilness of keeping so much unreleased music the the Motown “Vault” — but what can be done about it? That is the big question. I just hope that it doesn’t get destroyed before the public gets a chance to hear it all.

I just did a post this week on the Four Tops and mentioned that they set the bar for how a musical group should behave. No egos — just talented men that loved to sing. If only the Tempts could have done the same, just think of all the great music that those men could have made together. Even Otis could have had more solos (LOL).

I am a Cornbread woman myself. There is no reason that Eddie, David and Paul could not have put their egos aside and alternated leads. Oh well — woulda, coulda, shoulda — didn’t. I guess we will have to take the crumbs that fall out of the vault for now.

I am so glad to hear from you. Keep those comments coming and thanks for visiting OSML.

By: Amber flay

Amber flay — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:04:18 +0000

I think its unfair how motown is keeping all this amazing music away from us. I am in loved with the tempts and how their voices blended so well. My favorite tempt was ruffin his voice is unlike any i ever heard its just different and makes you want to forget all your problems. He has made his fair share of mistakes but I still dont think that it was fair to shelve other tempts music and solos. I think that it shuld not have been all about david thats where the group friction was. Each tempt was uniquely blessed with heaven sent voices. Maybe if things would have been different and egos as big as the earth things wuld have been different for the tempts. God bless the all.

By: SupaStarry

SupaStarry — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 03:43:21 +0000

I see yall meant business with that petition lol. They need to do that with Paul because I know there’s a bunch of songs that i would like to hear. and I love Eddie too!. Aint he the cutest? lol if he wasnt a singer he had better been a model lol

You should check out my youtube, http://www.youtube.com/SupaStarry. I have 2 Eddie clips that you might wanna check out (if you haven’t seen them already lol) my favorite is the one with the interview and acapella “Can I”.

By: sondan

sondan — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:59:05 +0000

Hi SupaS,

Hey you are on topic – it’s all about the music. Even though it was all about the hits I am sure it was also all about what Berry Gordy wanted and the”politics” of it all. I guarantee you that there are Temptation songs with “Paul Williams” leads that were hit worthy but never got released because Ruffin was considered the”star” at a point in time. Then when Ruffin became persona non gratis at Motown there were entire albums worth of material that was recorded but not released.

The same holds true about my favorite Temptation — Sweet Eddie! After petitioning Motown to re-release Eddie’s solo work on CD we fans were surprised that virtually a whole albums worth of songs had been recorded but never released and IMHO every song was a hit.

Anyway — because of those games — we, the listening public got short-changed of some great music over the years. I just hope and pray that eventually everything will come to light to for to enjoy.

Thanks again SupaS for you participation. It is most appreciated.

By: SupaStarry

SupaStarry — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:03:25 +0000

A lil off topic but…I so agree wit you on the whole Motown Vault thing! Today i was watching some motown clips in celebration of “Motown 50″ on freep.com and they had a clip on the “Motown Archive Vault” and im thinkin wat is the point of holding all this music? We know it was all about making hits but there’s probably hundreds or thousands of unreleased material that we could be listening to right now! Hit or not, i wanna hear it! especially if its by the Classic 5 Tempts(and Dennis). Paul is my favorite Tempt and I could imagine how many Paul led song i could be listening to right now that were probably shelved because it wasnt a hit. Also some of his solo songs were shelved. I got to hear two of them though there is one (that i know of)that i have yet to hear.