The Temptations "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)" on The Ed Sullivan Show
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My dad passed away last night. This was he favorite group, and I'm in so much pain right. I miss my dad, my strength, my protector. God please help me, it hurts.
I am so sorry 😢 how are you now. May Jesus Christ heal and comfort you ❤
So sorry for your loss darling xxx
I’m sorry
So sorry for your loss. May you be clinging to the happy memories! Your dad picking this group shows he had a loving heart !❤
I hope you found peace as he did and these songs bring you joy
The only sad part for me is that we will never have music like this anymore.
Yes, great music back then, so innocent.
But why are they just sitting there? I loved their choreography, it was so innocent like their songs.
🗣🗣🗣🗣
@@benton-bentonI guess because this was a slow song and a love song.
I MISS THEM 😢 AND THEIR BEAUTIFUL SONGS 😢😢
True
Paul singing "Every night, on my knees I pray " kills me every single time. RIP Paul 🙏
He is sooo handsome Paul yes YOU ARE♥️
@@beatricebarfield4622 73
Right? Paul is my favorite Temp
That's why I came
I'm just glad that Otis is still alive keeping the temptations alive
Just put me in a good mood so beautiful and haunting! In reality doesn't even know me! 😮 I could play this all day it never gets old!
Eddie’s voice was so pure they sung this effortlessly
💯💯💯
Only if music and Artist was this organic 😪
Absolutely
NY they did
@@bobdepaola7828 they had it Temping Temptation
There will never ever be a group like this again. TEMPS for ever
NEVER. We were so lucky to have the great music we had. 🥰
Only once in a while do we get to be blessed with such harmony as the Temptations had. The best!!
In my opinion, Just My Imagination is Eddie Kendricks most beautiful vocal ever recorded... Nothing tops this one. It's the longing, vulnerability, purity, and beauty of his voice expressed here so perfectly 💖 To me, it's his best song and one of The Temptations best ever and no one can forget about Paul Williams: his voice...so soulful and perfect, just so full of feeling 🌟 Eddie and Paul, always a winning combination 🌠 Pure class from the greatest male group of all time 👑🎙️The Temptations
Agreed💯💯
Concur!!
no hesitation. no wavering. real family values. Eddie and Paul.
O N E Word Masterpiece
No sweetheart you got to hear you are my everything and Born to Love You then you would change your mind yes just my imagination is a beautiful song that he song listen to the songs that the song back in the 60s
Eddie one of the most underrated falsettos of all time
What do you mean he's under rated? He's inducted in the rock and roll hall of fame.
@JaySinger Agreed 💯 Johnnie Wilder Jr. of Heatwave also comes to mind as one of the greatest and most underrated falsettos, along with Bobby and El DeBarge 👑🤴🏽🎵
Eddie K makes this song...without him it doesn't work. Even when I listen to other members sing it after he left. They didnt sing it the way he did.
FACTS and he wa very LOYAL TO PAUL
Mr. Kendrick has NEVER been underrated.
This was Eddie Kendrick 's farewell song with the Temptations 😢
Paul Williams, one of the most underrated singers of all time
Facts
Yup
Yessss
Paul unsung hero ❤
Absolutely!!!
This type of music needs to make a comeback. I'm tired of all the materialism and negativity in "music".
YEEEEES IT DOES. RIGHT ABOUT NOW WE ALL NEED "CALM". A LOT HAS HAPPENED SINCE HIP HOP WAS INTRODUCED. NOTHING BUT CHAOS AND MAYHEM. JOPE WE CAN GET BACK TO A SENSE OF DIGNITY AND PRIDE.
To right
It can't BECAUSE the ppl " aren't the same"...
GoeddieyouRethevoicemytemptationsarethegreastedgotempations❤
Good morning, my name is Johnny Lopez. I was born and raised in Chicago Illinois, and I love listening to Motown and I love the temptations. I will go up-and-down the hallways. As a young man sing in just my imagination. Well, I ended up moving to Puerto Rico, with my parents at the age of 16. I encountered this young man.
He pulled out the base and started playing just my imagination. I started singing. I'm trying to make it as short as possible. Sing watch that. They ask me to sing at high school graduation and I sang the song and the rest is history because like I said, I've been blessed.
Glory to God as long as you keep him with you you’ll never go wrong
No auto tune. Real honest to God talent. Not seen anymore
Love this song enternity but that was Eddie's and Paul's last ride of the Temptations. Paul's health was deteriated and Eddie did his thing to be an solo artist. R.I.P. Paul, Eddie, David, Melvin and Dennis, Richard and Damon!!!!!!!!!!!
That was the best ever temp line up
Yes come to find out Paul had Sickle Cell and the alcoholism was the cause
@@monicachaniece4005 Good Evening It's true and Paul didn't inform his group members about his battle with sickle cell
It wasn’t the cause that’s not how that works lol it was the result.
@@monicachaniece4005 alcoholism can’t cause sickle cell. He was using alcohol to cope with with disease as they did not know what it was or how to treat it at that time
Paul’s last TV performance EVER. Godspeed my hero, godspeed.
Which one is he
@@reginahyde1488 The one who sings, “Every night on my knees I pray.”
😔🙏🏽
Whos here in 2024
MEEEEEE
❤Me, my birthday coming up and I heard one of there songs so I just started clicking on my favorite songs. I remember when I was a teenager I had a crush on Eddie Kendricks 🙏🏾🥰🙏🏾🥰🙏🏾
Me
I'm here this morning @now 5:38 loved the Temptations .I got to meet Otis Redding a few years ago at the Caesars Casino...love them & a lot of respect for Otis.
❤❤❤ I am 🎉
Perfection right there. Yall speak to me
I LOVE Eddie's sweet voice.
I am a huge Temp fan, I know they said he started having issues singing in the 80's, but you can tell his voice wasn't the same as the early 60's and mid to late 60's
@@micahbinns2740 facts
@@micahbinns2740 He started to sing whit a lot of strain in his voice trying to make those notes
Don’t we all?
@@micahbinns2740 he was a smoker so it does make sense
I'm so glad these performances were recorded for posterity. Thank you.
I agree
"To have a girl like her ... is truly a dream come true." Who writes lyrics today ??
Now we get " to have a bit** to twerk on it " 🙄🙄🙄
Classic man
We don’t have any music that remotely compares to this today.
@@paravecchiavince9685 actually there are some good artists today but you certainly wont hear them on the radio. Even some that otis has mentioned he likes and keeps up with. You cant just be negative and give up on music you have to support the small nobody artists who are doing great things
The Devil....
Eddie's falsetto always relaxes me, and when Paul started singing, he just completed the song, RIP Eddie & Paul. 😊❤️
Yes. Exactly .
So sad at the (relatively) low views. Should be in the millions. The departing (from the group) Eddie Kendricks vocal is as heavenly as the woman in the song . His crowning moment as a Temptation. Of so many great Temptations numbers, "Just My Imagination" has to be Top 3. It's arrangement, voice and message transports you into another world... the magic that only a great song can do. Sheer artistic beauty.
Agreed
It was very famous back then
a classic at it's all-time BEST.....The view count is all relative.....This are mny clips of this tune uploaded on UTUBE ( some going back as far as more than 10yrs ago)...This is easily listening. i am sure it has millions accumulative of all the clips together.
@@hardren101 sold over a million more records than "MY Girl"
Yes are spot on. Listening to Eddie Kendricks gives me a greater appreciation for his voice. The magic and phenomenonal arrangement of this music will live throughout eternity.
I love how Eddie can switch from a tenor to soprano and the soulfness Paul brings with his voice to this track. I love the background melodies the others brought to this track too. This song is so forward thinking for the time period it was made in.
Fax 📠 💯 This is absolutely the perfect track ⏺️ and Eddie's greatest vocal performance with The Temps 🎙️ in my humble opinion 😊
Oh man, I just wish they had lived long lives.
That “She Doesn’t Even Know Me” Hits Soooo Hardc
Right. Especially how the beat dropped with it
One of the most beautiful songs ever. Damn .
yes, it is.
#1 on the day I was born
Such a true sentence, dear 'Tonygroove'. Time itself appreciates your honesty, dear good-and-honest man.
Such a beautiful song. The look in his eyes as he sings the lyrics is genuine...it’s as if he was really singing about a girl he’s never met.
or maybe one that broke his heart?
He Cold ain’t he!??..Lol
Lip sinkin
Eddie Kendricks is looking quite dreamy here!
Awe that's sweet a girl 👄 😍😍
"Every night, on my knees, I pray:
'Dear lord, hear my plea:
don't ever let another take her love from me......"
For some reason this part of the song has always caught my attention, not only because of the lyrics but because the melody changed, it least to me it did.
I may be old but I grew up in a time when good music came in every flavor
Ain’t that the truth
This appearance was made just at the time when Kendricks (going solo) and Paul Williams ( bad health) were leaving the group.
Indeed, the end of an era 😔
@@HoneyHoneyBaby They also did "Get Ready" on this show. Hope to see it soon!
@@MostlyBrenda Is this the Get Ready performance where they wear those powder blue suits with the high waisted pants or was that another performance?
HoneyHoneyBaby nope same day and performance
@@slendus8363 Same day, Jan 31, but they changed clothes.
If You Pay Attention, You Can See How Much Pain Paul Was In 😢
Otis reportedly said that if you look closely the energy was low because they knew Eddie didn’t want to be in the group anymore and he and Otis were at odds.
Motown was A POWERHOUSE OF TRUE CLASS AND TALENT IN THE BIZ
This great song feels so appropriate for the last year of The Ed Sullivan Show.
Including the fact that this was the last time that Eddie & Paul preformed with them
U forgetting the Jackson 5
My dad loved Motown. He was a Vietnam Vet and whenever I hear music from that time period I think about him. He passed away in 2012 after fighting his demons from that God for saking conflict. I miss ya Dad. I l miss ya. You would love both your great grandkids. 😢
Those were the good days. My mother had all the good records inluding the Temptations. And she played that music all the time. I grew up listening to these songs.
I love the groups of this time. Handsome, great singers, and the way they dress and dance. True performers!
Classy,
Total package comes to mind
@@needahandle Yes, a huge package, from all accounts.
Well observed. You have good eyes.
I love Paul's line he had such a voice as well ,such a gifted group
I love this because they're singing live, with the show's orchestra --- a really nice arrangment.
Does not sound or look live to me. Sounds like they r singing to the track. It sounds identical to the Studio Recording
@@June_Magoo the singing is definitely not live
Ed Sullivan insisted on live performances and was opposed to lip syncing. The only exceptions were rock acts since he didn’t believe the sound guys could get the mix right.
It doesn't look like to me
No, to both claims.
This was the last song Eddie Kendricks recorded with the Temptations. It has always been my all time favorite song, as I grew up listening to primarily soul music. Eddie had a beautiful voice...RIP Corn.
Eddie @ Paul will always be my favorite!!! But (Paul) would have been the man for me classy daddy and good looking just loved his style will never be forgotten...
He recorded one more tune with them a few weeks later called "Gonna Keep On Trying (Till I Win Your Love)". It's a great tune
@@Cas82958 His last may have been “please return your love to me“ Not sure. Great song. Did not get a whole lot of AirPlay
@@Annbosguy Please return your love to me was recorded in 68. Eddie's last recording with The Temptations was in early 1971. Great song by the way
@@Cas82958 CS, you are absolutely right. Stupid me. And actually ball of confusion was the summer of 71 I think.
as a white guy from britain motown is in my heart thank you guys 4 my youth xxx
His voice is soothing and so soft and Sweet. Effortless. Still listening in 2021
Never get enough of Great music.
Listening 2023 ‼️
Latoya Mcvay. I'm still listening in march 2023 too!
9 days b4 Christmas and still listening ❤
I used to run the night audit at a hotel in Silver Spring, Maryland and Eddie's sister lived across the street. A couple of times when the Temps were in the DC area, he would stay at the hotel and visit his sister. He would come in around 2 am or 3am from a concert and we'd chat for about 15 minutes or so before he went up to bed. One of the nicest guys you could ever meet. I was only about 19 at the time and I was too stupid to be star struck.
And that's the beauty of your experience good & true beautiful memory for you 🙏💗
And that's the beauty of your experience good & true beautiful memory for you 🙏💗
Wish they would bring groups to life again like this.❤️
Check out a group called "Main Squeeze"
There videos are on TH-cam!
The lead singer and the lead guitarist will blow you away!
"I never met her, but I can't forget her"!!!!!!! Genius!
There will not be any group as good as The temptations 😍🥰💞
@@sarahmarchetti5471 hi soul man hear from darwen yes Sarah best group going the temptations great voices ktf x
The temptations are and will always be one of the baddest groups ever. This song is pure gold.
This song was stuck in my head all day today and I was feeling off since this afternoon. My grandmother who was battling cancer just passed away tonight and this song has made me feel so much closer to her. She loved music and this was one of her favorites. She’s with my grandfather now (he passed in 2020) so I know she must be happy and I’m glad she’s not in any pain anymore.
However I’m feeling so much mixed emotions right now and hope God can continue to help me and my family through this time. ❤
Sorry to hear that....this song is just something else.
Prayers for you. Yes, this music touches the soul and connects us to others. These songs are precious gems.
Paul breaks my heart
I’m 76 and I can sing this song with them. I LOVED their songs❤
one of the most beautiful songs ever
A beautiful song, sung brilliantly.
My favorite group of all time!!! Otis is the only original member still hanging on!! God bless him!!
If you are a fan, see the play MJ. It is fantastic. The music, dancing, graphics, and actors are a total tribute to one of the greatest talents to grace the American charts. Like so many of the extremely talented, he suffered. This is about his triumphs.
The last hit song Eddie Kendricks
sang lead on before he left the
group to start his solo career.
He officially left the group
in early April 1971 after his
final contractual obligations
were completed.
Common misconception is that
Paul left soon after which never
happened.
Due to his worsening sickle cell
anemia and a spot on his liver,
he officially retired in early August
after playing his last show on
July 24th,1971.
Paul still remained as the group’s
advisor and choreographer until
his passing in 1973.
Does it get any better? The perfect blending of voices, the symphony sounding music and words. Heavenly
Ed Sullivan was a pioneer in showcasing black artists. He took a lot of slack for having black entertainers on his show.
This old school music will always be around, because this is music that has real meaning and these guys were sooo talented ❤❤❤❤❤
It lights your heart on fire
Fear not, your beloved father is looking down on you from his home in heaven 🇮🇪✝️☘️🕊
I loved Ed’s voice
Eddie Kendricks, the background vocals, the set design, the wardrobe...everything is just unbelievable. It's as great as it gets. The only other that comes to mind is Elvis' If I Can Dream.
Randy and i spent a few great days on the santa cruz beach as teen loves , we ran through the forests in the mountains , rode in his car , loving life . GROOVIN
One of the most beautiful songs ever written.
HAPPY 91ST BIRTHDAY
MOTOWN FOUNDER
BERRY GORDY, JR
(NOVEMBER 28, 2020)
When we hear classics like this.
This type of music is the winding down of the 1960's.
The way it goes when I was a teenager in the sixties.
Brings memories ❤❤
My favorite Temptations record. My Grandad used to sing this to me when I was just about to sleep.
Priceless
Hahah, My grandparents were gems as well. Loved them as a kid, and years further, even now they are all gone, love them even more. Especially for small things like that. Them memories build You as a human being. YEAH Joe - Priceless :D
OMG. To die for...
These men were entertainers. We are lucky to have experienced them.
So classy. I love that they’re not lip-syncing. They sound so good
They absolutely are lip syncing. Play the original at the same time as this version. It is identical. That is an impossibility, if you know anything about singing.
They absolutely are NOT lip-syncing. Kendricks' inflections are different at several points, and the musical arrangement is very different right before "or I will surely die."
@@beachnyc Completely lip-syncing, son. I am a longtime professional singer and musician, and their breathing is completely off for live singing, while their mouth movements don't match the vocal track that's playing.
100% lip-syncing.
I think what’s happening here, they are lip syncing, but they are lip synching to a re recorded version. So while it’s not the original version, it’s a re-recorded version they are lip syncing to.
The greatest voices in the world!!!!!
He killed it ❤
After this Eddie left the group. the greatest tenor.
i grew up in the 60's the amount of music coming at you all at once was incredible . these guys were one of a kind,, no one could out sing , out step, out dress the Temptations.
Y'all see how pretty Eddie looks in that thumbnail tho 😍😘
Ikr very handsome
@@tianahaley9913 Yes, just downright dreamy ☺️
You can't find anyone making this kind of music anymore and there will unfortunately not be anymore music like this made anymore
Look up some stuff by Daptone Records (the label). Some incredible soul music made in the 2010's and now. Their two most famous artists, Charles Bradley and Sharon Jones, have both unfortunately passed away in the last few years but released amazing music that is fairly similar to this in the last 5-10 years. And now the rest of the label roster still carries on this style and makes amazing music. They record using vintage analog equipment like they did in the early 70's and it's a remarkable sound and a fantastic label.
Yes you can! Brian's band, in Grossman's Bar, Toronto, on Spadina. Hug those honeys from me!
Check out Durand Jones and the Indications, Thee Sacred Souls, The Sinseers, Thee Illusions. There's retro groups that still carry on with this sound.
Sadly..two years after this performance Paul Williams left us RIP
What was his illness again ??
@@SocialExhaustion he had sickle cell. But he supposedly shot himself to death. But many close to Paul believe that he was murdered
@@GarwinWayne goodness! That's awful. Was sickle cell a diagnosis back then?
@@SocialExhaustion Yes it was. According to stories i've read Paul was diagnosed. At first he thought it was just stress & exhaustion from excessive touring/ performing on the road. As well as dealing with marriage problems he resorted to drinking which further compliated things, then doctors discovered he had a spot on his liver. Not to mention he smoked cigarettes as well. It got so bad to where he couldn't perform and had to use oxygen.
RIP to him
Unlike most of y'all I've been under my imagination my whole life, loving people who don't really care about you or even consider your existence relevant. This song literally makes me tear up but I ljust love this song so much
Eddie Kendrick was my favorite Temptation. He also had a few big hits as a solo artist.
Keep on trucking 😍😊
Much Respect to everyone who was there to witness this live
Hands down my favorite Temps song. Doesn't get any better than this. Still listening in 2025
Paul’s Williams voice is so beautiful ❤❤❤ rip paul
This one was made for Eddie and Paul and they nailed the vocals
The greatest male group ever 💯 The Temptin' Temptations 🎙️ Truly the Emperors of Soul 👑🤗🙌🏽✨💖🌠🌟‼️
I second that ..Temptations fan 4 ever!
Facts 💯
What about frankie Lymon
Yes indeed...Temptations forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only serious contender would be The Four Tops.
I NEVER MET HER BUT I CANT FORGET HER!!!
Such a peaceful message and harmony. I only wish our era here and now could emulate such stellar humanity and artistic expression
I’m 16 and I will forever love music like this I love temptation ❤❤
It just doesn't get any better than the incomparable Temptations. They were and still are in a class all by themselves.
This is the tune I sat by the window wishing I was “her”. Saw them live - they were amazing. So so many memories x
Eddie had the most beautiful voice, this had to be most beautiful song ever recorded by him, I mean nothing is coming close to this. It was well produced, background harmonies was on point. The beauty of his voice expressed here so perfectly. Then Paul came in and put the nail in the coffin to this song. One of my songs by the Temptations.
As Honey said, Eddie and Paul were an amazing pair, Eddie's falsetto and Paul's bass. Backing them were Ed Sullivan Orchestra.
Melvin was the bass singer.
Paul was a baritone.
Who's Honey ?
@@jaliyalove2742 Honey Honey Baby, a commenter. I'm naturally nice, same way as Eddie and Paul.
I've helped friends during first wave of Pandemic. I delivered food, at cost. It took a toll on me and I became sad. Ppl who knew, said it was a old school value to do it. I never leave friends behind.
Paul was a baritone. Melvin was the bass.
@@SeaMonster111 Ty for correcting my error.
The end of a second era. And I wasn't even born yet.
RIP Eddie Kendricks
RIP Melvin Franklin
RIP Paul Williams
RIP Dennis Edwards
RIP David Ruffin (not in this video)
@@talinthawatson1109 by
Pooooooooo💙💙💙💙💙💙🎂🐱🎉
We equally pay our respects alongside the dear David-of-Richardson.
The greatest falsetto ever ....
Paul was my favorite, my boyfriend and I dislike that he was never given the recognition like David Ruffin or Eddie Kendricks. May he continue to rest in eternal peace and power, amen. 🙏🏽😔🕊️❤️❤️❤️
Probably why Eddie was by himself- he left the group, after this song!
I will always love listening to Eddie Kendricks voice....Golden
Old. School. .music beautiful
His voice is gorgeous
Does Eddie have the sweetest face, or what? Adorable.
Eddie Kendricks had that silky smooth falsetto....transforms the song into an almost dreamlike state