#thetemptations
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"For Once in My Life" is a song written by #RonMiller and #OrlandoMurden for #MotownRecords' Stein & Van Stock publishing company, and first recorded in 1965. It was written and first recorded as a slow #ballad, in 1965 by #ConnieHaines, but the first version to be released was by #JeanDuShon in 1966. Other early versions of the ballad were issued by #NancyWilson, the #FourTops, #theTemptations, #DianaRossAndTheSupremes, #FrankSinatra and #TonyBennett.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQQzosJRtn8
Songs in a class by themselves ...
Papa Was a Rollin' Stone (1972)*
-- The Temptations
Just an abject soul masterpiece ...
* - rare same-year cover alert
Remembering David Ruffin from The Temptations
(January 18, 1941-June 1, 1991)
