About "All I Need"
"All I Need" is a 1967 hit single recorded by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. It is the group's first single to be produced by Norman Whitfield's protégé Frank Wilson. Written by Wilson, Eddie Holland and R. Dean Taylor, the single was a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 8; it was also a number-two hit on the Billboard R&B singles chart.David Ruffin, the Temptations main lead singer, serves as the songs narrator. In it he's begging his lover to forgive his unfaithfulness and mistreatment of her, telling her how guilty he feels about it and that he'll make it up to her. The recording's beat is very similar to the songs written and produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland, Motown's main songwriting team (of which Holland was a part).
The single is the first not to be produced by the group's main producer Norman Whitfield since "Get Ready", and Whitfield produced all of their single releases starting with the following single. Due to Whitfield maintaining an iron grip on his creative control over The Temptations' released material, it would also be their last single not produced by Whitfield until their duets with Diana Ross and the Supremes in 1968.
Backed with the Ivy Jo Hunter production "Sorry is a Sorry Word" (co-written by Holland with Hunter), the single would be their second one from the group's 1967 album The Temptations with a Lot o' Soul. The Temptations performed the song live on the CBS variety show The Ed Sullivan Show on May 28, 1967, and the flip side was also performed, as part of a documentary, in 1967.
Cash Box called the single a "pulsing, driving, thumping, melodic reading" that is a "sure-to-please item."Fellow Motown group Bobby Taylor & The Vancouvers recorded the song in 1968 but it remained unreleased until Bobby Taylor's Motown Anthology album came out in 2006. The Supremes recorded a slower version of the song (in 1971) with Jean Terrell on lead vocals. Their cover first appeared on the Motown Sings Motown Treasures album in 2005.
Top songs by Temptations
Papa Was A Rollin' Stone- Get Ready
- Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch
- I Need Your Lovin'
- Just My Imagination (running Away With Me)
- I Wish It Would Rain
- Night And Day
- Masterpiece
- Please Return Your Love To Me
- Build Me Up Buttercup
- Someday At Christmas
- A Song For You
- Silver Bells
- Psychedelic Shack
- Stand By Me
- Baby, Baby I Need You
- Ain't No Mountain High Enough
- Try To Remember
- You're My Everything
- Ol' Man River
- Treat Her Like A Lady
- Little Drummer Boy
- Since I Lost My Baby
- Hey Girl (i Like Your Style)
- Hey Jude
- Smiling Faces Sometimes
- Just Let Me Know
- Cloud Nine
- You Make Your Own Heaven And Hell Right Here On...
- Can't Take My Eyes Off You
- I Heard It Through The Grapevine
- Ball Of Confusion (that's What The World Is Today)
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