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The Ultimate Collection (The Temptations album)

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The Ultimate Collection
Compilation album by
ReleasedMarch 25, 1997
Recorded1964–1994
GenreSoul music
Length71:09
LabelMotown Records
ProducerHarry Weinger
The Temptations chronology
Anthology (version 3)
(1995)
The Ultimate Collection
(1997)
Lost and Found: You've Got to Earn It (1962-1968)
(1999)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

The Ultimate Collection is a compilation album by The Temptations, released on Motown Records.

Personnel

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Track listing

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Singles chart peak positions from Billboard charts; no R&B chart existed from November 30, 1963, through January 23, 1965.

Track Catalogue Release Date Pop Chart R&B Chart Song Title Writer(s) Time
1. Gordy 7028 1/23/64 No. 11 "The Way You Do the Things You Do" Smokey Robinson and Robert Rogers 2:39
2. Gordy 7038 12/21/64 No. 1 No. 1 "My Girl" Smokey Robinson and Ronald White 2:40
3. Gordy 7040 3/18/65 No. 18 No. 3 "It's Growing" Smokey Robinson and Warren Moore 2:57
4. Gordy 7043 6/1/65 No. 17 No. 4 "Since I Lost My Baby" Smokey Robinson and Warren Moore 2:49
5. Gordy 7047b 9/30/65 No. 83 No. 15 "Don't Look Back" Smokey Robinson and Ronald White 2:53
6. Gordy 7049 2/7/66 No. 29 No. 1 "Get Ready" Smokey Robinson 2:35
7. Gordy 7054 5/3/66 No. 13 No. 1 "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" Edward Holland Jr. and Norman Whitfield 2:32
8. Gordy 7057 11/2/66 No. 8 No. 1 "(I Know) I'm Losing You" Edward Holland Jr., Norman Whitfield, Cornelius Grant 2:26
9. Gordy 7061 4/13/67 No. 8 No. 2 "All I Need" Edward Holland Jr., R. Dean Taylor, Frank Wilson 3:17
10. Gordy 7063 6/13/67 No. 6 No. 3 "You're My Everything" Norman Whitfield, Roger Penzabene, Cornelius Grant 3:12
11. Motown 530338 9/20/94 "Angel Doll" Stevie Wonder, Clarence Paul, Morris Broadnax 2:29
12. Gordy 7068 12/21/67 No. 4 No. 1 "I Wish It Would Rain" Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong, Roger Penzabene 2:53
13. Gordy 7081 10/25/68 No. 6 No. 2 "Cloud Nine" Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong 3:35
14. Gordy 7093 7/30/69 No. 1 No. 1 "I Can't Get Next to You" Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong 2:52
15. Gordy 7099 5/7/70 No. 3 No. 2 "Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)" Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong 4:01
16. Gordy 7105 1/14/71 No. 1 No. 1 "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong 3:52
17. Gordy 7121 7/28/72 No. 1 No. 5 "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong 6:57
18. Gordy 7142 2/17/75 No. 26 No. 1 "Shakey Ground" Jeffrey Bowen, Eddie Hazel, Al Boyd 4:02
19. Gordy 1765 10/1/84 No. 48 No. 2 "Treat Her Like a Lady" Otis Williams and Ali-Ollie Woodson 4:42
20. Motown 2269 9/27/94 No. 86 "Error of Our Ways" Otis Williams, Dennis Nelson, Melvin Franklin 5:19
21. Motown 530338 9/20/94 "My Girl" (Acapella) [Excerpt] Smokey Robinson and Ronald White 1:20

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