The Temptations ALL THE MILLION SELL

Producers: Smokey Robinson, Ronald White, Norman Whitfield.
A straight, unaugmented reissue of the original 1981 ALL THE MILLION SELLERS vinyl anthology, this brief 10-track collection delivers just what the title promises. All the Temptations' biggest hits are here, from their breakthrough 1965 hit "My Girl" through to 1972's epochal "Papa Was A Running Stone." What's most interesting about this collection is that it disproves a bit of conventional wisdom about the Temptations. Pop music historians praise the group's Holland-Dozier-Holland singles of the mid '60s to the skies--and rightly so--but ALL THE MILLION SELLERS proves that the group's Norman Whitfield era of the late '60s and early '70s was actually more commercially successful. Starting with the "Strawberry Fields Forever"-like "Cloud Nine" and continuing through all the classics like "Ball of Confusion" and "Just My Imagination," ALL THE MILLION SELLERS is a dead-on perfect encapsulation of the Temptations' creative prime.

• Format: CD
• Genre: R&B