The Temptations-Cloud 9

[qwertymanor]

ooh, wah-wah guitars, Psychedelic Shack was brilliant too!

[audiosodomy]

I love the part at 2:28

[EurekaSpringsAR]

:25

[powerman2g]

I love the ending of the song where they all get in like Sly & the Family did on "Dance to the Music" Which Otis said was an inspiration for their new sound.

[MotownMaster]

well they were both written by Barrett Strong & Norman Whitfield, if you noticed The Supremes "You Can't Hurry Love" & Martha & The Vandellas "Im Ready For Love" are similar and HDH wrote those and The Temptations "All I Need" has a sililar beat to the Supremes and Vandellas songs i just mentioned

[rodineisilveira]

Have you noticed which has a part where appears the orchestration on this song? This part with the orchestration reminds very much the song "I've heard it through the Grapevine", recorded by Marvin Gaye for Motown/Tamla in 1968.

Compare these two songs and feel the harmonies.

[jsbach15]

Thank the "Funk Brothers" for that wonderful MOTOWN sound!

[MotownMaster]

RIP Norman Whitfield and a speedy recovery for Barrett Strong

[rodineisilveira]

It was with this song that began the Temptations' psychedelic soul period, with the advent of the wah-wah guitars.

[rodineisilveira]

FANTASTIC!

[peasah2005]

The Temptations are great Motown group.

My favourite hits are Cloud Nine, Don't Look Back and I Can't Get Next to You.

They're a gifted soul legends.

I saulte the Temps.

[PALIMOST]

BECAUSE CLOUD NINE IS A BETTER SONG

[tuzwol]

Because CLoud Nine has the Tempts singing it,that's why

[pannoni1]

It's a shame the Supremes (including Diana's solo career) never won any grammys. Love Child came out first, went to #1 knocking out Hey Jude in the U.S., and the music not only is social but is ahead of time. How Cloud 9 beat Love Child for the grammy beats me.

[tuzwol]

CLoud 9 has the Tempts switching leads and the Tempts vocals,the best thing about Love CHild is Diana Ross' voice,the Tempts song has more of a group sound.The leads and Harmonies of CLoud 9 are great,that's why

[niagarafallscanbill]

Classic!!! I got this in my soul collection on their Greatest Hits Vol.2 along with another 1970 album Sly & The Family Stone Greatest Hits.

[miamivicepastels83]

What voices! What sexy men! Put it together and whaddaya have? That deep soul that technology can't reproduce!

[MotownMaster]

Yeah this song was a big hit, so its a common record, but since its on the script label and not the arrowhead, that makes it kinda rare

[jrjew]

Any truth to David cutting this before Dennis anywhere? or that David and Dennis being friends, so thats how the switch happened? or is it TV hype. BTW how many rarities did motown have? Mislabeling, wrong mixes, etc? let me know....

[nighttrane1]

@MotownMaster I have this record on the script label, also during this time(late 1969)some Tamla releases were on the old globe label(maybe there were some old labels laying around the warehouse, so they decided to use these remaining ones up! Won't swear to this, but a possibility!)

[crosswinds22]

Thank you for sharing this rare

and difficult song to find.

History behind the label

at the actual time...

gives great merit to this recording.

Cloud 9 continues,

at all social levels...

Thank you.

L~

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

In addition to that, this song was from the LP of the same name. The LP does not show the script logo, it does show the "arrowhead" design. The next single after "Cloud 9" was a follow-up "Runaway Child, Running Wild". This was also from the "Cloud 9" album, but no script logo for that single.

[1423stuart]

did edwinn starr allso record this?

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

I've never seen a "Cloud Nine" single on a script label before, because it is rare. Later copies have the arrowhead label, but you might the original rare copy of that song. It has from the LP of the same name. The last LP to have the script "Gordy" label was "I Wish It Would Rain" released as Gordy 927 in 1968. It was their last album with David Ruffin before he went solo. I used to have "I Wish It Would Rain" LP but it had an arrowhead label, not the script one.

[marbleann]

It is rare? This is the second time I am reading that. Almost everybody I know has this 45. My sister has one and I have one also. So I am not sure what people mean by it being rare. I am 50 and my sister would be 56 and live on Long Island and it is not rare around here and that is for sure. I'll put the word out is is suppose to be rare,lol

[NorthernsoulDJ]

just brill ****** ktf

[mario1136]

This song is great. the record is a little more high pitched than the CD.

[ioxxd90]

Ummm..how'd u find that on that label? THat's the Classic "Gordy" label???

[marbleann]

EJ Korvettes in Westbury NY or Sears which in the 60's had a hell of a record department or Jimmys music world, pick any of those places. I am shocked to hear it is rare. That is a laugh. Maybe it was the region people lived in because it is not rare here.

[crosswinds22]

Thank you for this memory.......

L~

[djscanman]

Awesome song. One of the Temptations' best.

[chgosatrap]

JAM!!

[Chicago10281]

In case anybody's interested, this 1968 grammy-winnig song by the Temptations is featured on "Motown Master Recordings-Original Artist Karaoke" by the Singing Machine!

[Chicago10281]

Can you do "Function At The Junction" by Shorty Long and "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted" by Jimmy Ruffin?

[Chicago10281]

But the Motown "Map" label never changed and always stayed the same.

[shyphyre]

Chicago,I have also noticed that, beacuse Berry Gordy had changed all of the labels at Motown by the end of 1966. Maybe he had intended to thange the the "Map" label also, but decided not to?

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

By the late 60's, the Motown's map label does not change, but it still remains the same until the early 90's where Motown stopped making mass vinyl. The first LP "Bye Bye Baby" by Mary Wells was the only LP that doesn't have a map label until only one album. The Twistin' Kings "Twistin' Around the World" was the second LP to have a early map label. After that, tehy switched to a standard map label used for both LP's and 45's in 1962.

[Chicago10281]

Remember Shorty Long's 1966 Motown Hit "Function At The Junction"?

[d820m]

I do, but did you know that he did the original version of "Devil With The Blue Dress On", later made by Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels.

[MotownMaster]

I wish, id love to do a motown radio show

[sicilianwop]

Dude you know your stuff.......you should have your own radio show.

[podmixture]

i'd like to hear somrhing from the "Puzle People"lp

do you have it? i like that norman winfield sounding temptations

[Chicago10281]

Have you got the date in 1968 on when this grammy-winner was recorded?

[MotownMaster]

Tecnically Gordy 7057 "I Know Im Losing You" in 1967 was the official start of the arrow label just like with Tamla 54149 "Aint No Mountain High Enough" was the start of the "Bar" design

[shyphyre]

I think the "Bar" design for Tamla began a little earlier than the release of "Aint No Mountain High Enough". Some sources claim that Stevie Wonder's a Place in the Sun" is the first Tamla single ,from the fall of 1966,with the new design.

[HomeoftheGoodGuys]

MotownMaster, do you have Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"? Your copy has the globe design, but mine has the "Bar" design. As I said, the last LP by the Temptations to use a cursive design was "I Wish It Would Rain", as for my LP copy I used to have, it had an "Arrowhead" design.

[TheMotownAmbassador]

Can't believe you found a copy of this record with the original script logo! RARE!

[efunkadelic]

it's kinda cool to see a record that was well loved. look at the worn label. fabulous!

[Chicago10281]

Now, I think that 1968 was the last year for the cursive logo and the beginning for the arrow logo

[Lethesunshine]

Pretty cool!