Temptation

Michael Jackson first entered show business as the youngest product of the Motown record label, a legendary pop-culture juggernaut that had already launched the likes of Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Stevie Wonder and the Temptations.

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...said. "I still have some of them." On that summer day when they auditioned for Motown, Jackson and his brothers sang the Temptations' "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" and Jackson danced like James Brown. There is a grainy black and white video...

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...Today, Forever." The star-studded concert featured some of Motown's most legendary figures -- Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, the Temptations, the Four Tops and the reunited Miracles and Supremes -- but the night belonged to Jackson by...

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With just days left before his own funeral, let the record show that Michael Jackson ponied up some of the tab for the funeral of the late, great Temptations lead singer David Ruffin at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, in June 1991.

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...1960s with his brothers as the Jackson 5. Woodlawn is the final resting place for several high-profile musicians and public figures, including members of the Four Tops, Temptations and Rosa Parks. Here's our questions: Intention to remember...

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...wasn't allowed (Though labelmate Michael Jackson would be allowed the same request). Kendricks recorded one last hit single with the Temptations, 1971's "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"; by the time the record reached #1 on the...

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...for the past 30 years. "He completely changed what black music was. I mean, he changed Motown! Before Sly, the Temptations were 'I'm Losing You.' After Sly, they were 'Ball of Confusion.' It's a black and white moment. "The album 'Stand!'...

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