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Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by
The Temptations
ReleasedNovember 16, 1966
Recorded1964 - 1966
Studio Hitsville USA, Detroit
Genre Soul
Length32:40
Label Gordy
GS 919
Producer Smokey Robinson and Norman Whitfield.
The Temptations chronology
Gettin' Ready
(1966) 		Greatest Hits
(1966) 		Temptations Live!
(1967)
Singles from Greatest Hits
  1. " Beauty Is Only Skin Deep"
    Released: August 4, 1966
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Tom HullA+ [2]

Greatest Hits is a 1966 greatest hits album for The Temptations, released by the Gordy ( Motown) label. It peaked at #5 on the Billboard 200 album chart and remained on the chart for 120 weeks. Included are popular Temptations hits such as " The Way You Do the Things You Do", " Get Ready", " Since I Lost My Baby", " My Baby", " Don't Look Back", and their signature #1 hit, " My Girl". One non-album single, " Beauty Is Only Skin Deep", is also included; it was a #3 hit in the summer and fall of 1966.

The album was included in Robert Christgau's "Basic Record Library" of 1950s and 1960s recordings, published in Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies (1981). [3]

Track listing

Side one

  1. " The Way You Do the Things You Do" ( Smokey Robinson, Robert Rogers) (lead singer: Eddie Kendricks)
  2. " My Girl" (Robinson, Ronald White) (lead singer: David Ruffin)
  3. " Ain't Too Proud to Beg" ( Edward Holland, Jr., Norman Whitfield) (lead singer: David Ruffin)
  4. " Don't Look Back" (Robinson, White) (lead singer: Paul Williams)
  5. " Get Ready" (Robinson) (lead singer: Eddie Kendricks)
  6. " Beauty Is Only Skin Deep" (Holland, Whitfield) (lead singer: David Ruffin)

Side two

  1. " Since I Lost My Baby" ( Warren Moore, Robinson) (lead singer: David Ruffin)
  2. " The Girl's Alright with Me" (Holland, Eddie Kendricks, Whitfield) (lead singer: Eddie Kendricks)
  3. " My Baby" (Moore, Robinson, Rogers) (lead singer: David Ruffin)
  4. " It's Growing" (Moore, Robinson) (lead singer: David Ruffin)
  5. " I'll Be in Trouble" (Robinson) (lead singers: Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin)
  6. " Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)" (Holland, Whitfield) (lead singer: Eddie Kendricks)

Chart and singles history

Chart (1966) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Pop Albums 5
U.S. Top R&B Albums 1

Singles

Title Information US US R&B UK
" Beauty Is Only Skin Deep"
  • Gordy single 7055, August 4, 1966
  • B-side: "You're Not an Ordinary Girl" (from Gettin' Ready)
 3 1 18


Year-end charts

Chart (1967) Peak
position
U.S. Top R&B Albums [4] 1

See also

References

  1. ^ Greatest Hits Vol. 1 at Allmusic
  2. ^ Hull, Tom (November 2013). "Recycled Goods (#114)". A Consumer Guide to the Trailing Edge. Tom Hull. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
  3. ^ Christgau, Robert (1981). "A Basic Record Library: The Fifties and Sixties". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN  0899190251. Retrieved March 16, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
  4. ^ "Billboard.com - Year End Charts - Year-end Albums - Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. 2006-10-20. Archived from the original on 2006-10-20. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
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