Some music artists are blessed with both industry accolades plus more personal, mind-blowing honors. The Temptations, known as the pioneers of the psychedelic soul genre with innovative songs, are no ...

Dennis Edwards, who became a lead singer of the Motown hitmakers the Temptations in 1968 as they embraced psychedelic funk and won Grammy Awards for the songs “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” and “Cloud ...

With a back catalog of quintessential songs like “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” “Ball of Confusion (That’s What the World Is Today),” “Get Ready,” “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” (with female counterparts ...

It's unavoidable, perhaps, given how many great songs came out of the Motown empire in the '60s and '70s. But for every great Motown single that is still widely heard today, there are many that have ...

You'd be forgiven for thinking those lyrics were Smokey's, but this is the first of four Temptations single s with lyrics by Penzabene. Ruffin grabs the spotlight on the bridge, his grittier vocal a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) There’s something about a Temptations record that hits you before the vocals even begin—the groove sets in, the bassline walks into your bones, and the harmony builds like a slow ...

The Temptations 1968 hit “I Wish It Would Rain,” would have been an excellent theme song for the month of November 2025, but ...

Dennis Edwards, who joined the top Motown act the Temptations to take lead vocals on some of the group’s most memorable latter-day hits such as “Just My Imagination,” died Friday in Chicago of ...

Dennis Edwards, who became a lead singer of the Motown hit makers the Temptations in 1968 as they embraced psychedelic funk and won Grammy Awards for the songs “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone” and “Cloud ...