TRUTH HURTS!! | Papa Was A Rolling Stone - The Temptations (Reaction) 

That's what I heard. A LOAN. Either one isn't good on a mother with children.

I've always wondered which it was. Both work, and both are very sad

Honestly, when my Papa died, my Mom still had six kids living at home and the house was heavily mortgaged, so I never heard just "alone". I think it's a double entendre.

@@magnificentfailure2390 That's reasonable. A "double entendre" for YOU.

I guess it can be whatever it means to the listener, BUT, it was written and meant as "alone".

Not to mention Cloud Nine. The Temptations weren't afraid to touch anything

...and Thanx for not using the edited version.

It's reality now.

Amen

So agree The creativity of th 60s/70s was off the charts - often because artists were making fusion of styles of music with often a message -

yes sir!

Soul, Rock and Country all were best in the 1970s.

'Ball Of Confusion' remains a stunning work still relevant today.

I'm white and all my white friends LOVED and LOVE the Temptations. It may be "black music" but the Temptations transcended color and at any Temptations/Four Tops concert you see just as many white faces as you do faces of color. Can't top the Tempts and can't tempt the Tops!

yeah, i love this longer version. so much better than the radio cut.

That is what I just said more or less!!

Love that extra funk in the long version, good stuff.

The "Funk Bros" had their act together. damn good.@@ericanderson8886

This was the first record I ever bought with my own money and it's the first time I have ever heard the long version. Still think it's one of the best and just got better

I have been told by those in the know, that musicians are obsolete, they cost too much money. We can't be concerned with things like, moving a band and all their equipment around from place to place, paying for meals and lodging, that stuff cuts into our profit margins beside we got AI to do all that and more, for cheaper. That is how the record industry thinks and why music sounds like shit.

They are my two favs too, Why I suggested them.... JM is just the Best

@@AliasMark69 thank you for suggesting them. It made my morning.

Check out the Playlist names. I'm thrilled to say JM has done 72 new artist from my suggestions since Jan 14th... over 200 songs.@@unclephil7650

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Me too!! I listened on AM radio at the time. FM was still full of orchestral music. I loved the radio!!

Respect and props for the Funk Brothers this group of top-tier musicians had so many hits, and everyone wanted them on their record.

Paul McCartney always says that James Jamerson of the Funk Bros was his main bass inspiration.

The Funk Brothers actually played on more #1 hits than Elvis Presley, the Beach Boys, and the Beatles COMBINED.

I have no doubts about that. @@randyfergus8781

Jameson is my GOAT bass player, and I will die on that hill. Without his influence and the foundation he laid down, nobody else after him does what they do.

Watch them do it live at Daryl’s House!

YES!!!

Walk on By, Issac Hayes. 🔥

This is the only version I ever heard on the radio.

Great song, great reaction!💕

Excuse me! Eddie was not on this record. That's the voice of Damon Harris

I got this long verison also the long remix verison which is even more alsome crazy about this song ..i also love get ready with the voice of eddie kendricks alsome song.. god bless the late temps!!! .

I would say ONE of the defining sounds. In my life-long opinion, it was Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Etta James, Aretha, etc., preceded by people like Ruth Brown, Little Esther Phillips, Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, and lesser-known artists (not lesser-known to me). I love MOTOWN, don't get me wrong, but there would have still been R&B & soul music.

I'm 69 too.... We know all the best music from the past 60+ years.

@@AliasMark69 69 here also but only for a few more days! Ugh!!

67 yrs.....we had the best music, black and white even with all the racial sadness going on at the time, it's all still saddening

@@AliasMark69 A good place to be. I'm 73 in a few months.

At this point in life I just hope to see tomorrow, but feeling great so I have HIGH hopes@@sereneamani1713

So true! Some younger reactors ask "What is the genre"? LOL...they asked that one time about Bob Dylan. "Ya had to be there, kid"...lol

Damn but I miss those days. ☹

@@sueprator9314 You know the funny think about my generation when it comes to the music, we always thought the music last forever........."ROCK & ROLL WILL NEVER DIE!, Well it died sometimes in 1990s.

Oh yes!

I doubt I could be any further away from "a rolling stone", but my wife used the courts to keep me away from our son. I divorced her, because even though I avoided the four times she tried to knife me, and I slept in the spare room with a chair blocking the handle, I realized she only had to get lucky once, I had to be alert every minute I was at home. She decided if I wanted to see our son it could only be by living with her, in her mind it was all or nothing. The court believed her lies because being a soldier meant was a violent man, so they made sure it was nothing. I last saw him on his 2nd birthday, he didn't want to know me when I contacted him on his 18th birthday, I guess 16 years was enough to convince him I was the bad guy. Too many men are deprived of the opportunity to care for their children. Whilst there are still irresponsible father's out there, nobody ever wrote a song about vindictive mother's.

@@jaidee9570 women aren't always good either, so sorry for your situation

Amen.

You got to be out of your mind if you think it could get longer!

We heard it all on KDIA & KSOL Oakland/SF Bay Area. Long and short versions, entire albums, (eg. James Brown Live at the Apollo, Motor Town Revues. And can't forget Ray Charles live at Alonzo Herndon Stadium, etc.)

lol I still always thought it was "alone" but last few yrs started thinking it was a "loan" Lol

@@sueprator9314 Chronic lyricosis, LOL! Like in the CCR song, "Bad Moon Risin' - 'There's a BATHROOM on the right' "! Thanks for your reply!

DEFINITELY "alone".

Tower of Power-The Temptations back to back... TOO COOL.

Yes!! Great Song Also

Also the long version of "Runaway Child" is epic.

Check out “ truckin” by Eddie Kendrick…… a key member of the temptations, who later left the group!