“It was the third of September / That day I’ll always remember,” begins “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” the classic song by the Temptations. Though it became one of their biggest hits, the group initially ...

The world was changing. Music was changing. Motown was changing. By 1972, the classic Motown sound -- that gorgeous, efficient pop-soul assembly line -- was just about dead. Instead, the music had ...

As a child, I grew up hearing The Temptations, but I don’t recall really listening. Of course, I knew of Motown and thus I knew some of their biggest songs, some by heart, even if I wasn’t entirely up ...