Discography and Biography of Eddie Kendricks. Listen to all their hits.
Eddie Kendricks Songs

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Edward James Kendrick (December 17, 1939 - October 5, 1992), best known by the stage name Eddie Kendricks, was an American singer and songwriter. Noted for his distinctive falsetto singing style, Kendricks co-founded the Motown singing group The Temptations, and was one of their lead singers from 1960 until 1971. His was the lead voice on such famous songs as "The Way You Do The Things You Do", "Get Ready", and "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)". As a solo artist, Kendricks recorded several hits of his own during the 1970s, including the number-one single "Keep On Truckin'".

Below is a list of Eddie Kendricks songs, sorted by the most popular first. Place mouse on to see information about song. Click song title to play song and to read details about the song including lyrics (if available). Click year to list all songs from that year. Click label to list songs from that record label. Songs with chart position "---" either never made it into the US top 100 R&B or UK charts or we have no details of their highest chart positions if they did.

(Song are sorted in highest US R&B Top 100 and/or UK Top 100 chart position order)


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1 record label: Tamla 54238
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #18
written by: Leonard Caston, Anita Poree and Frank Wilson
album: Eddie Kendricks / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 9
comments: [disco dance] [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Keep On Truckin'
1973 Tamla
2 record label: Tamla 54243
chart position: RandB #1, US #2, UK #39
written by: Leonard Caston, Anita Poree & Frank Wilson
album: Boogie Down / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 9
comments: [disco dance]
Eddie Kendricks Boogie Down
1974 Tamla
3 record label: Tamla 54257
chart position: RandB #1, US #18
written by: Linda Allen & Harry Booker
album: For You
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Shoeshine Boy
1975 Tamla
4 record label: Tamla 54266
chart position: RandB #2, US #36, US dance #37
written by: T.G. Conway, Allan Felder & Bruce Gray
album: He's A Friend
comments: [philly sound] [disco dance]
Eddie Kendricks He's a Friend
1976 Tamla
5 record label: Tamla 54247
chart position: RandB #5, US 28
written by: Leonard Caston & Anita Poree
album: Boogie Down
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Son of Sagittarius
1974 Tamla
6 record label: Tamla 54249
chart position: RandB #8, US #50
written by: Leonard Caston and Kathy Wakefield
album: Boogie Down
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Tell Her Love Has Felt the Need
1974 Tamla
7 record label: Tamla Motown 1003
chart position: RandB #7, US #50
written by: Brian Holland and Eddie Holland Jr.
album: The Hit Man
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Get the Cream Off the Top
1975 Tamla Motown
8 record label: Tamla 54255
chart position: RandB #8, US #71
written by: Leonard Caston
album: For You
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks One Tear
1974 Tamla
9 record label: Tamla 54263
chart position: RandB #8, US #66
written by: Leonard, Wakefield and Kathy Caston
album: The Hit Man
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Happy
1975 Tamla
10 record label: RCA 14178
chart position: RandB #40, UK #58, US #20, US AC #12, US rock #43
written by: Smokey Robinson & Bobby Rogers
album: Hall and Oates Live at the Apollo
Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Hall & Oates The Way You Do The Things You Do -- My Girl
1985 RCA
11 record label: Tamla 54230
chart position: RandB #13, US #87
written by: Leonard Caston and Anita Poree
album: People... Hold On
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Girl You Need a Change of Mind (Part 1)
1973 Tamla
12 record label: Tamla 54277
chart position: RandB #30, US Dance #11
written by: Allan Felder and Norman Harris
album: Goin' Up in Smoke
comments: [Motown Sound] charted as Goin' Up in Smoke / Music Man / Born Again
Eddie Kendricks Goin' Up in Smoke
1976 Tamla
13 record label: Tamla 54222
chart position: RandB #17, US #66
written by: Frank Wilson
album: People... Hold On
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks If You Let Me
1972 Tamla
14 record label: Arista 0325
chart position: RandB #13, US Dance #20
written by: Dominic Bugatti and Frank Musker
album: Vintage '78
comments: charted as Ain't No Smoking without Fire / Whip in US dance charts
Eddie Kendricks Ain't No Smoking without Fire
1978 Arista
15 record label: RCA 5313
chart position: RandB #14, US AC #48
written by: Renaldo Benson, Crump and Ronnie McNeir
album: Ruffin and Kendrick
David Ruffin & Eddie Kendricks I Couldn't Believe It
1987 RCA
16 record label: Tamla 54236
chart position: RandB #26, US #67
written by: King Errisson, Kathy Wakefield and Frank Wilson
album: Eddie Kendricks
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Darling Come Back Home
1973 Tamla
17 record label: Tamla 54270
chart position: RandB #24
written by: Michael Holden and Theodore Life
album: He's a Friend
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Get It While It's Hot
1976 Tamla
18 record label: Tamla 54290
chart position: RandB #24
written by: Garry Glenn
album: Slick
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Intimate Friends
1978 Tamla
19 record label: Tamla 54218
chart position: RandB #35, US #77
written by: Leonard Caston and Anita Poree
album: People... Hold On
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Eddie's Love
1972 Tamla
20 record label: Tamla 54203
chart position: RandB #37, US #88
written by: Pam Sawyer and Frank Wilson
album: All By Myself
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks It's So Hard for Me to Say Goodbye
1971 Tamla
21 record label: Tamla 54210
chart position: RandB #37, US #101
written by: Hal Davis and Herman Griffith
album: All By Myself
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Can I
1971 Tamla
22 record label: Atlantic 3796
chart position: RandB #41
written by: Brian Holland and Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Love Keys
Eddie Kendricks Oh I Need Your Loving
1981 Atlantic
23 record label: RCA 6925
chart position: RandB #43
album: Ruffin and Kendrick
David Ruffin & Eddie Kendricks One More for the Lonely Hearts Club
1988 RCA
24 record label: Arista 346
chart position: RandB #49
written by: Tony Macaulay and Keith Potger
album: Vintage '78
Eddie Kendricks The Best of Strangers Now
1978 Arista
25 record label: Arista 0466
chart position: RandB #87
written by: Michael Price and Dan Walsh
album: Something More
Eddie Kendricks I Just Want to Be the One in Your Life
1980 Arista
26 record label: Corner Stone 1001
chart position: RandB #87
written by: Robbie Nevil, M. Love and Duncan Pain
comments: [disco dance]
Eddie Kendricks Surprise Attack
1984 Corner Stone
-- record label: Tamla 327
written by: Donald Daniels, Terri McFaddin
album: Eddie Kendricks
comments: [album cut]
Eddie Kendricks Only Room For Two
1973 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 327
written by: Frank Wilson, Kathy Wakefield, Leonard Caston
album: Eddie Kendricks
comments: [album cut]
Eddie Kendricks Can't Help What I Am
1973 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 327
written by: Bob Hilliard, Burt Bacharach
album: Eddie Kendricks
comments: [album cut]
Eddie Kendricks Any Day Now
1973 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 327
written by: Larry Roberts, Sylvia Robinson
album: Eddie Kendricks
comments: [ballad album cut]
Eddie Kendricks Not On The Outside
1973 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 327
written by: Gloria Jones, Pam Sawyer
album: Eddie Kendricks
comments: [sweet soul album cut]
Eddie Kendricks Where Do You Go (Baby)
1973 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 327
album: Eddie Kendricks
comments: [ballad album cut]
Eddie Kendricks Each Day I Cry A Little
1973 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 54218
written by: A. Poree, F. Wilson
album: People...Hold On
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks Let Me Run Into Your Lonely Heart
1972 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 54210
written by: F. Wilson, J. Webb
album: All By Myself
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks I Did It All for You
1971 Tamla
-- record label: Tamla 54203
written by: L. Caston, S. Small
album: All By Myself
comments: [Motown Sound]
Eddie Kendricks This Used to Be the Home of Johnnie Mae
1971 Tamla




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