Paul Williams - Just My Imagination (Live 1972)

[PoetryManDC]

Paul Williams never got his much deserved respect, and place in musical history - He poured all of his soul into each note… His voice is like the sun dipped in chocolate!!!

[kcool52]

Sorry, but that will always be Eddie's song. Nobody did it better.

[tricia8187]

Paul you were great and will always a Temp forever

[Vincent50]

Mystery, mystery, with Paul Williams and Florence Ballard. Stories that will never be told correctlly for those two went through some rough shit after leaving their groups. Paul shot himself so it was told and Flo died of a heart attack but what led up to it is the mystery. Paul sounds great! He and David along with Eddie were the Temptations.  The shit that happens in show business can be so corrupt and tacky.

[TheCounslor]

@Vincent50 I AGREE. SO MANY LIES. SO MANY COVER-UPS. MOTOWN SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF HOW THEY TREATED SOME OF THEIR GREATEST PERFORMERS. R.I.P. EDDIE, PAUL, DAVID AND FLORENCE.

[TheCounslor]

@Vincent50 I AGREE. MOTOWN SHOULD BE ASHAMED AT HOW THEY TREATED SOME OF THEIR GREATEST ARTIST AND PERFORMERS. R.I.P. DAVID, EDDIE, PAUL, AND FLORENCE.

[sheddski]

wow that was a song for eddie and paul sung backup in the orignal to hear it swtched what could have been .

[nwilczyn]

I like hearing him in any context I haven't heard him in, and he's one of my favorite singers of all time, but it 's really sad to hear him messing up the lyrics to a song he was a part of for years and years... Eddie's trying to help him along and it just kind of sounds sloppy. One of the greatest talents the world has ever known ruined by outside problems... substance, personal issues... sad. Imagine if he had had any degree of support system behind him. He'd be a living legend now...

[CadillacL]

@nwilczyn Yes indeed. I DVR'd the Tempations movie & it made me SO sad. It made me wonder what COULD'VE been.

[MelloBlend]

This is so special....these guys will live forever

[a1992aron]

This is very weird, in The Temptations movie Paul talks about Him, Eddie and David grouping up then Paul dies, then i hear rumors the Motown Mafia hmmmm this explains it self, i will let yall figure out and tie things together

[KTAZYAKALMM]

@a1992aron in the movie paul talks about who

[KTAZYAKALMM]

@a1992aron are you trying say eddie got him killed

[a1992aron]

@KTAZYAKALMM no i think it really was the motown mafia that did it... i also heard rumors that Otis didnt want them singing the Temps songs

[KTAZYAKALMM]

@a1992aron yea i always believed that otis had some to do with pauls death

[a1992aron]

@KTAZYAKALMM yea me to just watch the movie when Otis is in Paul's house ad read what we where talking about it ties in together

[MJForever56]

@a1992aron Who was the Motown Mafia? How did Paul Williams really die?

[a1992aron]

@MJForever56 from the rumors i heard the motown mafia was hired by Berry Gordy, they killed a couple of Motown stars, and Paul Williams killed himself but he shot himself with the opposite hand, i dont by into it

[MJForever56]

@a1992aron Why would berry Gordy want to kill Paul Williams?

[a1992aron]

@MJForever56 i have no idea but he was causing lots of problems just like David Ruffin and Otis didn't like that fact that Paul, Eddie and David where singing the temps songs, I heard Otis Tried to sue but they were Temps so he couldn't

[MJForever56]

@a1992aron  Otis might have had both Paul and ruffin killed, you never know.

[ipinkman234]

@MJForever56 well acuually paul killed himself but its still posible

[MJForever56]

@ipinkman234 Yeah? Paul shot himself in the left side of his head, and the gun was found in his right hand. Kind of hard to swallow.

[a1992aron]

@MJForever56 exactly

[KTAZYAKALMM]

@a1992aron i watch the movie every day basically but key me inbox on wat u talking bout

[McNeill2425]

sounds great

[CadillacL]

How INCREDIBLE to hear Paul. R.I.P. Would love to hear more from this show.

[WithLoveforPaul]

So wonderful to hear, thank you very much for posting.

[solesirching73]

Wow - it's sad that this was to be the final time that Eddie, Paul, and David stood on stage together...

[BKagent22]

There is a whole CD of this show at the Club Kabana, a short lived night club in Cleveland, but it's hard to find.

[vidaricks]

thanks for posting this--wow!

[temmptations]

I love them

[temmptations]

how can i get a copy of this recording?

[joseph210109]

omg 

[millsbrothers]

SUCH a showman!!!! My heart is pounding!!!!

[qwertymanor]

Some say there's more to Paul's suicide.

[TheCounslor]

@qwertymanor THERE IS. THE GUN WAS IN HIS RIGHT HAND BUT HE WAS SHOT ON THE LEFT SIDE OF HIS HEAD.