| 1 |
record label: Gordy 7105
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #8, US AC #33
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: Sky's the Limit / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 6
comments: [ballad] [Motown Sound]
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| 2 |
record label: Gordy 7093
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #13
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: Puzzle People / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 4 / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 4
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 3 |
record label: Gordy 7038
chart position: RandB #1, US #1, UK #43
written by: Smokey Robinson & Ronald White
album: The Temptations Sing Smokey / David Ruffin At His Best
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 4 |
record label: Gordy 7028
chart position: RandB #1 (1 week), US #11
weeksinr&bchart: 18
written by: Smokey Robinson & Bobby Rogers
album: Meet The Temptations / The Temptations Sing Smokey
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 5 |
record label: Gordy 7099
chart position: RandB #2, US #3, UK #7
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 5 / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 5
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 6 |
record label: Gordy 7121
chart position: RandB #5, US #1, UK #14
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: All Directions / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 8
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 7 |
record label: Gordy 7055
chart position: RandB #1, US #3, UK #18
written by: Norman Whitfield & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Greatest Hits / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 5
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 8 |
record label: Gordy 7057
chart position: RandB #1, UK #19, US #8
written by: Norman Whitfield, Eddie Holland Jr. & Cornelius Grant
album: Greatest Hits II / Ruffin At His Best / Motown Chartbusters Vol.1 / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 1
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 9 |
record label: Gordy 7081
chart position: RandB #2, US #6, UK #15
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: Cloud Nine / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 4
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 10 |
record label: Tamla Motown 620
chart position: RandB #3, US #6, UK #26
written by: Norman Whitfield, Cornelius Grant & Roger Penzabene
album: The Temptations With A Lot O' Soul / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2
comments: [love ballad] [Motown Sound]
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| 11 |
record label: Gordy 7068
chart position: RandB #1, US #4, UK #45
written by: Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong & Roger Penzabene
album: Wish It Would Rain / David Ruffin At His Best / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 2
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 12 |
record label: Gordy 7084
chart position: RandB #1, US #6
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: Cloud Nine
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 13 |
record label: Gordy 7096
chart position: RandB #2, US #7, UK #33
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: Psychedelic Shack / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 3
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 14 |
record label: Gordy 7038
chart position: UK #2, US AC #27
written by: Smokey Robinson and Ronald White
album: My Girl OST
comments: re release
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| 15 |
record label: Gordy 7054
chart position: RandB #1, US #13, UK #21
written by: Norman Whitfield & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: Gettin Ready / David Ruffin At His Best
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 16 |
record label: Tamla Motown 854
chart position: RandB #1, US #7, UK 53
written by: Norman Whitfield
album: Masterpiece...
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 17 |
record label: Gordy 7061
chart position: RandB #2, US #8, UK #60
written by: Frank Wilson, Eddie Holland Jr. & R. Dean Taylor
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 18 |
record label: Gordy 7047
chart position: RandB #4, US #13
written by: Smokey Robinson, Ronald White & Pete Moore
album: The Temptin' Temptations / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 2
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 19 |
record label: Gordy 7072
chart position: RandB #1, US #13, UK #47
written by: Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong & Roger Penzabene
album: The Temptations Wish It Would Rain / British Motown Chartbusters Vol.2
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 20 |
record label: Gordy 7040
chart position: RandB #3, US #18, UK #45
written by: Smokey Robinson & Pete Moore (as Warren Moore)
album: The Temptations Sing Smokey / US Motown Chartbusters Vol. 1
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 21 |
record label: Gordy 7043
chart position: RandB #4, US #17
written by: Smokey Robinson & Pete Moore (as Warren Moore)
album: The Temptin' Temptations
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 22 |
record label: Tamla Motown 800
chart position: RandB #8, US #18, UK #32
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: Solid Rock / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 7
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 23 |
record label: Gordy 7086
chart position: RandB #2, US #20
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: Puzzle People
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 24 |
record label: Gordy 7065
chart position: RandB #3, US #14
written by: Norman Whitfield & Eddie Holland Jr.
album: The Temptations With A Lot O' Soul
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 25 |
record label: Tamla Motown 967(UK)
chart position: RandB #10, UK #13, US #30
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: Solid Rock / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 7
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 26 |
record label: Gordy 7049
chart position: RandB #1, UK #10, US #29
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Gettin' Ready / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 3
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 27 |
record label: Motown 1365 (UK)
chart position: RandB #2, UK #12, US #48, US dance #13
written by: Ali Ollie Woodson & Otis Williams
album: Truly for You
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 28 |
record label: Gordy 7142
chart position: RandB #1, US #26
written by: Jeffrey Bowen, Eddie Hazel & Al Boyd (as Alphonso Boyd)
album: A Song for You
comments: [funk] [Motown Sound]
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| 29 |
record label: Gordy 7035
chart position: RandB #11, US #26
written by: Eddie Holland Jr. & Norman Whitfield
album: The Temptin' Temptations
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 30 |
record label: Gordy 7133
chart position: RandB #1, US #27
written by: Norman Whitfield
album: 1990
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 31 |
record label: Gordy 7138
chart position: RandB #1, US #40, US dance #11
written by: Jeffrey Bowen, Donald Baldwin & Lionel Richie
album: A Song for You
comments: [disco dance] [Motown Sound]
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| 32 |
record label: Gordy 7074
chart position: RandB #4, US #26
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
album: The Temptations Wish It Would Rain
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 33 |
record label: Gordy 7102
chart position: RandB #8, US #33
written by: Norman Whitfield & Barrett Strong
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 34 |
record label: Gordy 7131
chart position: RandB #2, US #35
written by: Norman Whitfield
album: Masterpiece...
comments: [ballad] [Motown Sound]
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| 35 |
record label: Gordy 7144
chart position: RandB #9, US #37, US dance #4
written by: Louis Charlemagne
album: A Song for You
comments: [disco funk] [Motown Sound]
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| 36 |
record label: Gordy 7183
chart position: RandB #11, US #43, US dance #23
written by: Angelo Bond, Berry Gordy & J. Mayer
album: Power
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 37 |
record label: Gordy 7032
chart position: RandB #22, US #33
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: The Temptin' Temptations
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 38 |
record label: Gordy 7129
chart position: RandB #8, US #40
written by: Norman Whitfield
album: Masterpiece...
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 39 |
record label: Gordy 1856
chart position: RandB #4, US #47
written by: Mark Holden
album: To Be Continued…
|
| 40 |
record label: Gordy 7146
chart position: RandB #3, US #54
written by: Eddie Holland Jr. and Brian Holland
album: House Party
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 41 |
record label: Motown 41733
chart position: RandB #8, UK #63, US Dance #23
written by: Peter Bunetta, Roy Chudacoff and Mark Holden
album: Together Again
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| 42 |
record label: Motown 1908
chart position: RandB #3, UK #90, US AC #36
written by: Jimmy George and Lou Pardini (as Louis Pardini)
album: Together Again
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| 43 |
record label: Gordy 7135
chart position: RandB #8, US #43
written by: Norman Whitfield
album: 1990
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 44 |
record label: Gordy 7136
chart position: RandB #8, US #74
written by: Norman Whitfield
album: 1990
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 45 |
record label: Gordy 1720
chart position: RandB #13, US #54, US AC #17
written by: Norman Whitfield and Angelo Bond
album: Back to Basics
comments: [love ballad] [Motown Sound]
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| 46 |
record label: Gordy 1818
chart position: RandB #14, UK #88, US Dance #49
written by: Luther Vandross and Marcus Miller
album: Touch Me
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 47 |
record label: Motown 43233
chart position: RandB #16, UK #71
written by: Stan Sheppard and Shwayze (as Aaron Smith [Shwayze])
album: Special
|
| 48 |
record label: Motown 72667
chart position: RandB #10
written by: Stan Sheppard and James Varner
album: Special
comments: [beat ballad]
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| 49 |
record label: Motown 41431
chart position: UK #31
written by: Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
album: 25th Anniversary
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| 50 |
record label: Gordy 1781
chart position: RandB #14, UK #84
written by: Otis Williams, Ron Tyson and Victor Carstarphen
album: Truly for You
comments: [love ballad] [Motown Sound]
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| 51 |
record label: Gordy 7047
chart position: RandB #15, US #83
written by: Smokey Robinson and Ronald White
album: Greatest Hits
comments: [Motown Sound] US B side to My Baby
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| 52 |
record label: Motown 2023
chart position: RandB #12
written by: Brian O'Doherty
album: Special
|
| 53 |
record label: Tamla Motown 866(UK)
chart position: UK #41
written by: Norman Whitfield
album: Masterpiece... / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 8
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 54 |
record label: Gordy 1666
chart position: RandB #17, US #88
written by: Dennis Lambert and Peter Beckett
album: Surface Thrills
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 55 |
record label: Gordy 1713
chart position: RandB #16
written by: Franz Xaver Gruber, Joseph Mohr and John Freeman Young
comments: [christmas] [re release]
|
| 56 |
record label: Gordy 7109
chart position: RandB #29, US #51
written by: Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong
album: Solid Rock / Motown Chartbusters Vol. 6
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 57 |
record label: Gordy 7150
chart position: RandB #21, US #94
written by: Jeffrey Bowen, Jim Ford and Truman Thomas
album: Wings of Love
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 58 |
record label: Tamla Motown 526
chart position: RandB #22, US #123
written by: Smokey Robinson and Cornelius Grant
album: The Temptin' Temptations
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 59 |
record label: Atlantic 3436
chart position: RandB #21
written by: Ron Baker and Ron Tyson
album: Hear to Tempt You
|
| 60 |
record label: Gordy 7001
chart position: RandB #22
written by: Berry Gordy Jr.
album: Meet the Temptations
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 61 |
record label: Gordy 7208
chart position: RandB #36, US #67
written by: Charles Simmons, Joe Jefferson and Richard Roebuck
album: The Temptations
comments: [Motown Sound]
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| 62 |
record label: Gordy 2627
chart position: RandB #22
written by: Benjamin Wright, David English, Glenn Leonard and Otis Williams
album: The Temptations Do the Temptations
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 63 |
record label: Motown 1403
chart position: RandB #41, UK #69
written by: Alton
album: Milestone
|
| 64 |
record label: Gordy 1871
chart position: RandB #25
written by: Ali Ollie Woodson and Otis Williams
album: To Be Continued...
comments: [ballad]
|
| 65 |
record label: Motown 0862
chart position: RandB #28, US #120
written by: James Fischer, Narada Michael Walden and Scott Urquhart
album: Phoenix Rising
comments: [RandB chart position is for RandB airplay charts]
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| 66 |
record label: Tamla Motown 93600
chart position: RandB #27
written by: Barrett Strong and Norman Whitfield
album: All Directions
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 67 |
record label: Motown 40621 (UK)
chart position: UK #84
written by: Jimmy Scott and Mark Baker
album: Touch Me
|
| 68 |
record label: Gordy 7102
chart position: Cashbox R&B #30
written by: Whitfield, Strong
album: Psychedelic Shack
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 69 |
record label: Gordy 7119
chart position: Cashbox R&B #46, US #92
written by: Nick Zesses and Dino Fekaris
album: All Directions
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 70 |
record label: Atlantic 3538
chart position: RandB #31
written by: Brian Holland, Harold Beatty and Eddie Holland Jr. (as Eddie Holland)
|
| 71 |
record label: Gordy 7213
chart position: US #102
written by: Thom Bell and Linda Creed
album: The Temptations
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 72 |
record label: Gordy 7032
chart position: RandB #39, US #102
written by: Norman Whitfield and Eddie Holland Jr.
album: The Temptin' Temptations
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 73 |
record label: Gordy 7068
chart position: RandB #41, US #116
written by: Henry Cosby, Allen Story and Margaret Johnson
album: The Temptations Wish It Would Rain
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 74 |
record label: Motown 200731
chart position: RandB #40
written by: Katrina Willis and Colin Morrison
album: Ear Resistible
comments: [slow jam]
|
| 75 |
record label: Gordy 7010
chart position: US #122
written by: Berry Gordy Jr.
album: Meet the Temptations
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 76 |
record label: Gordy 7063
chart position: US #124
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Gettin' Ready
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 77 |
record label: Atlantic 3517
chart position: RandB #42
written by: Brian Holland, Harold Beatty and Eddie Holland Jr. (as Eddie Holland)
album: Bare Back
|
| 78 |
record label: Gordy 1881
chart position: RandB #45
written by: Brian O'Doherty
album: To Be Continued…
comments: [beat ballad]
|
| 79 |
record label: Motown 1933
chart position: RandB #53
written by: Otis Williams, Ron Tyson and Victor Carstarphen
album: Together Again
comments: [ballad]
|
| 80 |
record label: Motown 937
chart position: RandB #54
written by: Theo Peoples
album: Phoenix Rising
comments: [ballad]
|
| 81 |
record label: Gordy 7188
chart position: RandB #55
written by: William Weatherspoon, Angelo Bond and A. Weatherspoon
album: Power
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 82 |
record label: Motown 1837
chart position: RandB #63, US AC #28
written by: Henry Mancini and Dennis Lambert
album: To Be Continued…
|
| 83 |
record label: Motown 0937
chart position: RandB #57
written by: Darcy Aldridge, Rex Rideout, Ronnie Garrett and Tony Kurtis
album: Phoenix Rising
comments: [slow jam]
|
| 84 |
record label: Atlantic 3461
chart position: RandB #58
written by: Allan Felder, Norman Harris and Ron Tyson
|
| 85 |
record label: Gordy 1834
chart position: RandB #63
written by: Ali Ollie Woodson and Otis Williams
album: Touch Me
comments: [beat ballad]
|
| 86 |
record label: Gordy 1707
chart position: RandB #67
written by: Angelo Bond and Norman Whitfield
album: Back to Basics
comments: [funk]
|
| 87 |
record label: Motown 72768
chart position: RandB #68
written by: Jeff Franzel, Nina Ossoff and Porter Carroll
album: Milestone
comments: [slow jam]
|
| 88 |
record label: Motown 1216
chart position: RandB #69
written by: Fred Karlin and Dean Pitchford
album: Loving Couples: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack from Loving Couples
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 89 |
record label: Gordy 1789
chart position: RandB #81
written by: Mike Himelstein and Tom Keane
album: Truly for You
comments: [beat ballad]
|
| 90 |
record label: Gordy 1631
chart position: RandB #82
written by: Smokey Robinson
album: Reunion
comments: [Motown Sound]
|
| 91 |
record label: Motown 3746312261
chart position: RandB #86
written by: Melvin Franklin, Otis Williams and Dennis Nelson
album: Emperors of Soul
comments: [ballad]
|
| 92 |
record label: Motown
chart position: RandB #105
written by: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
album: For Lovers Only
comments: [love ballad]
|
| 93 |
record label: Motown
chart position: RandB #113
written by: Gerald Levert, Joe Little III
album: Ear-Resistible
comments: [album cut]
|
| 94 |
record label: Motown 20641
chart position: RandB #115
written by: Jasher
album: Awesome
comments: [slow jam]
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| -- |
record label: Gordy 1789
written by: L. Caston, T. McFaddin
album: Truly for You
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| -- |
record label: Motown
written by: Oji Pierce, Ron Tyson
album: Awesome
comments: [slow jam] [album cut]
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| -- |
record label: Atlantic 3461
written by: The Temptations, Benjamin Wright
album: Hear to Tempt You
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| -- |
record label: Atlantic 3436
written by: Norman Harris, Allan Felder, Ron Tyson
album: Hear to Tempt You
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| -- |
record label: Atlantic 3517
written by: B. Wright, O. Wright, D. English, R. Street, G. Leonard
album: Bare Back
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| -- |
record label: Gordy 1683
written by: M. Price, D. Walsh
album: Surface Thrills
comments: [Motown Sound]
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