Happy Birthday to Temptations co-founder Otis Williams, who turns 81 on Sunday (October 30th)!!! Williams who was present at the birth of Motown alongside founder Berry Gordy Jr., Smokey Robinson, and a host of others is the sole surviving original member of the Temptations still performing with the group. Williams has outlived all of the other members of the Temps' classic lineup: Paul Williams, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks, and Melvin Franklin. 2022 saw the release of the Temps' latest studio set, Temptations 60. Otis Williams recalled after years of struggling with no success, how the Temps found out about scoring their first hit in 1964: "We recorded 'The Way You Do The Things You Do' and went to upstate Michigan and was up there for a number of weeks and came back, and Berry (Gordy) had been trying to find us. They told us 'You guys finally got a hit.' Somebody got the Billboard and the Cashbox and showed us we were in the charts, and David
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It was 48 years ago today (October 18th, 1974) that the Rolling Stones' released It's Only Rock N' Roll. The album marked the Stones' first without Jimmy Miller their producer since 1968's Beggars Banquet with production duties handled by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards under their joint pseudonym, "The Glimmer Twins." The album topped the Billboard 200 albums chart for one week, starting on November 23rd, 1974 and spent a total of seven weeks in the Top 10. Although the set featured several cuts that reached extensive FM airplay, the album's two singles both failed to reach the Top 10, with the title track hitting Number 16 and its followup, a cover of the Temptations' 1966 hit "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" only reaching Number 17. The song "It's Only Rock N' Roll" grew out of a jam session between Jagger, David Bowie, soon-to-be Rolling Stone Ron Wood, his Faces bandmate Kenney Jones, and bassist Willie Wee
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