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The Temptations
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Psychedelic Shack & All Directions (1970 & 1972)
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Psychedelic Shack
3:51 |
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You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On Earth
2:46 |
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Hum Along And Dance
3:53 |
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Take A Stroll Through Your Mind
8:37 |
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It's Summer
2:35 |
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War
3:11 |
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You Need Love Like I Do (Don't You)
3:58 |
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Friendship Train
7:49 |
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Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On
3:06 |
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Run Charlie Run
3:01 |
11. |
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone
11:46 |
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Love Woke Me Up This Morning
2:23 |
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I Ain't Got Nothin'
3:33 |
14. |
The First Time Ever (I Saw Your Face)
4:11 |
15. |
Mother Nature
3:10 |
16. |
Do Your Thing
3:30 |
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Psychedelic Shack came out in June 1970 featuring the psychobabblic Take A Stroll Through Your Mind, as well as War (the original version) and Friendship Train, which Norman Whitfield also produced on hits for Edwin Starr (1970) and Gladys Knight (1969). This new direction was all too much for original lead singer Eddie Kendricks who was shortly to leave the band. One of the songs, It's Summer, appeared as a single in newly re-recorded form a year later.
The sound that Whitfield got from the phenomenal but uncredited session players had become honed and refined to an effortless-sounding and staggering efficiency.
All Directions came 3 albums later (after Sky's the Limit and Solid Rock) in 1972 and was well named since it veered between Funky Music Sho Nuff Turns Me On and Ewan MacColl's First Time Ever I Saw Your Face. At its heart lay an astounding 12-minute masterpiece, Papa Was A Rollin' Stone, which began with a bravura instrumental overture which stripped away the instrumentation bit by bit in a way that almost prefigured dub reggae as it used the sonic palette in a manner that only the latest technology could have enabled.
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