Temptations 60 - Chapter 3: The Message 

Let me put it to you this way. Black people were proud of the Temptations, James Brown, Motown, Staxx, Atlantic, Aretha, Dionne, Sly, and anyone else who was successful and beautiful. We were all proud!

Temptations forever.

🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾🕺🏾Temptations Forever!!!

In many ways the story of black america thru music. The Temps.

The power of real music 🖤🖤🖤🙏🏽✨✨ 26 years of the powerful tempting temptations and they keep going let's continue to give them their flowers 🦋🦋 Rest In Peace Eddie dennis Melvin Paul David 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

They deserve Everything!💯

This doc series should be much longer!!

I Love This And The Temptations Forever.

The Tempts had a HUGE IMPACT ON THE Youth of Our Generation,that was more good than bad. JOHN B. THANKS GUYS.

Very much enjoying this story of the Temptations. Thank you to Otis and everyone else involved in this project. Motown and the artists, including the Tempts, will always live on for the great music that the whole world loved. I too was a child of the 60s and this music was the BEST.🥰🥰

The Temptations Past/Present Members: 1.Last surviving founding member Otis Williams (Second Tenor/Baritone) (Group years: 1960-) Still performing 2.Founding member Elbridge Bryant (Tenor) (Group years: 1960-1964) Died on October 26th,1975 3.Founding member Melvin Franklin (Bass) (Group years: 1960-1994) Died on February 23rd,1995 4.Founding member Eddie Kendricks (First Tenor/Falsetto) (Group years: 1960-1971; 1982 Reunion) Died on October 5th,1992 5.Founding member Paul Williams (Second Tenor/Baritone) (Group years: 1960-1971) Died on August 17th,1973 6.David Ruffin (Tenor) (Replaced founding member Elbridge Bryant) (Group years: 1964-1968; 1982 Reunion) Died on June 1st,1991 7.Dennis Edwards (Tenor) (Replaced David Ruffin) (Group years: 1968-1977; 1980-1984; 1987-1989) Died on February 1st,2018 8.Richard Street (Second Tenor/Baritone) (Replaced founding member Paul Williams) (Group years: 1971-1993) Died on February 27th,2013 9.Ricky Owens (First Tenor/Falsetto) (Replaced founding member Eddie Kendricks) (Group years: 1971-1971) Died on December 6th,1996 10.Damon Harris (First Tenor/Falsetto) (Replaced Ricky Owens) (Group years: 1971-1975) Died on February 18th,2013 11.Glenn Leonard (First Tenor/Falsetto) (Replaced Damon Harris) (Group years: 1975-1983) 12.Louis Price (Tenor) (Replaced Dennis Edwards) (Group years: 1977-1980) 13.Ron Tyson (First Tenor/Falsetto) (Replaced Glenn Leonard) (Group years: 1983-) Still performs with Otis Williams 14.Ali-Ollie Woodson (Tenor) (Replaced Dennis Edwards) (Group years: 1984-1987; 1989-1996; 2002) Died on May 30th,2010 15.Theo Peoples (Second Tenor/Baritone) (Replaced Richard Street) (Group years: 1993-1998) 16.Ray Davis (Bass) (Replaced founding member Melvin Franklin) (Group years: 1994-1995) Died on July 5th,2005 17.Harry McGilberry (Bass) (Replaced Ray Davis) (Group years: 1995-2003) Died on April 3rd,2006 18.Terry Weeks (Second Tenor/Baritone) (Replaced Ali-Ollie Woodson) (Group years: 1997-) Still performs with Otis Williams 19.Barrington “Bo” Henderson (Tenor) (Replaced Theo Peoples) (Group years: 1998-2003) 20.Joe Herndon (Bass) (Replaced Harry McGilberry) (Group years: 2003-2015) 21.G.C. Cameron (Tenor) (Replaced Barrington “Bo” Henderson) (Group years: 2003-2007; 2019) 22.Bruce Williamson (Tenor) (Replaced G.C. Cameron) (Group years: 2007-2015) Died on September 6th,2020 23.Larry Braggs (Tenor) (Replaced Bruce Williamson) (Group years: 2015-2019) 24.Willie Greene (Bass) (Replaced Joe Herndon) (Group years: 2015-2022) 25.Mario Corbino (Tenor) (Replaced Larry Braggs) (Group years: 2020-2021) 26.Tony Grant (Tenor) (Replaced Mario Corbino) (Group years: 2021-) Still performs with Otis Williams 27.Jawan M.Jackson (Bass) (Replaced Willie Greene) (Group years: 2022-) Performs with Otis Williams

Long live the Classic Five. 🎤👓🎩👞 🎤🎩👞 🎤🎩👞🎤🎩👞🎤🎩👞

We need chapter 4 Otis!

I love the Temptations! Always have, always will!💖🙏

Our people were and are way too great for this nation. Nothing has changed, just got a lil better as far as using the public bathrooms🙄. Sundown towns still exist, smh. Love these talented men and appreciate their music today. God bless you all 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾❣️❣️❣️❣️

What a beautiful documentary ! Had me laughing, crying and dancing ! The Temptations...my favorite group EVER ! Bless you all !

This chapter, makes you think more about the connection with music and what's happening in the real world, I can't imagine what everyone went through back then, and let's be honest are still going through it now, the music you guys and all of Motown produced was amazing, I'm 51 now, and I got into Motown when I was about 14, I wasn't listening to colour, I was listening to amazing music that made me want to move, want to cry, and want to sing out loud along with it.......and that's just what I done... Peace and Love ❤️🙏❤️

the Power of music! John 3:17 thank you for doing this

Heavy on Ball of Confusion is still very relevant today! I loved the docu-series. Always love 💘💘💘

Ah people , in ah time When When WE where winning. And we liked it

I grew up on this music - so powerful and relevant today. Thank you Temps and the late Norman Whitfield for bringing the message to the masses during challenging times of the civil rights era.

I only wish y’all were still here for this generation love y’all for life ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Give Mr. Barrett Strong his props, those LYRICS were written by Barrett, Norman only did the music until “Masterpiece”. Also Mr. Roger Penzabene, a true heartbroken poet who wrote “Wish It Would Rain” & others from that era.

Thank all of you for the memories..LOVE YOU

I wish that they had re made " Ball of Confusion " on the new album.

You have no idea how much emotion this envokes.This is a special part of not only Black music history, but African American history as well.....Great Post,keep up the good work 👍🏾👏🏽

We want MORE of this!!!!! 🎯💯👏

Always Insightful, Educational and Entertaining. I hope that Motown/Universal has the Hindsight, Insight and Forsight to produce a more detailed and comprehensive documentary about The Temptations while Dr. Otis Williams, Shelley Berger and Smokey Robinson are still here to tell their story. Something like these three episodes. Just longer. Especially now in real time.

How can a people love your Black music. But not the Black people who made it. That's a sick people...

I’m so glad they put No More Water in the Well in this! One of my favorite Temptations songs and my favorite Paul Williams song

You guys have made me cry and I love you so much and I ask you to forgive us for being so ignorant.God bless you

Love the Temptations and Always Will!

Love it.

I got very emotional looking and listening to this. However, I enjoyed it, what a great message. Thank You, Otis and The Temptations, for being strong! Love The Temptations Forever. So proud of the Temptations and Smokey! God bless everyone of you, Love and Peace!

Norman was the baddest, funkiest, soulfulist, smoothest producers at Motown

I love this💯💪🏾🙏🏽 Love the Temps

CLOUD 9-Stricly about drugs but worded to explain the feel from it.

Good video.🙂

GREAT POSTING " WE ALL WENT THROUGH OUR OWN PERSONAL HELL,I HOPE THIS GENERATION WATCHES THIS. ❤& RIP 🕊

I absolutely ♥ The Tall, Tantalizing, Temptin' Temptations. Eddie remains my favorite. He was so fine and his falsetto was unmatched🤩

I second d this emotion 👌🏼 😌 💯 💓 ❤ ✨ 👌🏼 😌 💯 💓 ❤ ✨ 👌🏼

I always wondered: were they aware of being part of so BIG a thing, way back then? Were they just enjoying stardom and success? Did they know they were playing a huge part in a cultural revolution? I get some of the answers here. ❤️

am a white women and lv nothing else only Motown what human beings we are Jehovah is watching us all motown made my years happier ❤ thanks from the bottom of my ❤

Y’all should DEFINITELY do more videos like these …. They’re are probably SO many stories that need to be told. And a lot of the classic Motown family is no longer here…when somkey said “their was definitely some wild stories about back then” I truly believe him … because we have heard “their side of the story” in history books … but do you really expect them to say the whole Gods honest truth… nobody today with access to a smartphone or a computer is gonna believe only what a textbook says lol

These artist and many others brought use out of a great struggle a struggle that these young folk today would and could never understand. Most of them past way with just there fame. Which was more important then silver and gold. These young artist have cars that cost more then these guys whole career and no appreciation to the art of ENTERTAINMENT. THANK YOU TO ALL THE GREAT ONES Thanks for making the struggle a little lighter and the little sunshine you brought into our lives I think I can speak for all of us on that. Any time the Temps come near I buy a ticket are 2 even if I know I can't make the show just my way of saying thank you. The Ojays to LOL

I never knew about this

Norman Whitfield's production style was genius and cut through the bullshit, rose-tinted glasses optimism of pop music in general. I was just listening to "Plastic Man" while mildly stoned the other night and it sounded incredible. "Masterpiece", "Law of the Land", and "Ball of Confusion" are masterpieces of arrangement and production. Whitfield's tracks were not only incredible to listen to but they set dance floors ablaze in the '70s as well. Motown avoided being too closely associated with disco but I guarantee you that "Law of the Land", both the versions by The Temptations and Undisputed Truth, were incendiary dance floor hits. I was there and you should've heard these tracks on a big sound system!

love y’all .. this is awesome!! Great points

It DEEPLY GRIEVES ME that the TEMPS, and other black artists went through this racist BULL$HIT! I wis I could tell everyone of them how sorry, and embarrassed I am to be a white person, the same color as the racists. Maybe I’ll see you all when I get up there. Love to ALL OF YOU! You gave me many HAPPY MOMENTS!!!!

Such an array of emotions . Much love Temps ❤️ Keep on keepin'' on. God bless you all 🙏🎶🕊️👏

#MakeAmericaGiveReparations #UnitedOrJustStates💪🏿🖤‼️#AboutTime

Why not just make an entire documentary instead of doing these short parts and there isn’t even a part fout

Imagine performing in front of a crowd with white teens knowing their parents were ready to fight you when you get off stage!? I could not!

my God what is the title of the closing jam... what a song

💚2022✨Amen pass the Word #MillenniumLanceAndTheOpenScroll 🌹💍 (Rev. 19:9) Daniel 11-12 Revelation 20-21 keeping the Faith 💜😎

Please someone can tell me What the name of the song at the end please ?

caut sa vad filmul de ani de zile si este de negasit ! mi am dat asa seama ca sunteti cei mai grei cantareti din lume care au existat vreodata ! asa ca m am dezabonat !

I'm sorry Otis I think you're wrong about cloud 9. That song is definitely about drugs.

Thats Right im bout to fight.😠😤👊🤼