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Cloud Nine (The Temptations song)

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also gets a line near the end ("There's no difference between day and night…"). The lyrics for the song were about the struggles and pains of living poor, as opposed to being about relationship and love troubles. The broke, unemployed, and despondent main character in the song proclaims that he gets
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introduced Norman Whitfield to the band's music. At first, Whitfield did not want to produce anything with such a radically different sound. "I don't want to get into all that crazy shit," he said. "That ain't nothing but a little passing fancy." Within a few weeks, however, he had created the
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backing tracks for the newest Temptations single, a psychedelic-styled number called "Cloud Nine", and stuck primarily to such songs well into the early 1970s.
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called it "near revolutionary," praising the "touches of progressive pop in the track, elevated lyric message and the solid performance."
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Show 50 - The Soul Reformation: Phase three, soul music at the summit. [Part 6] : UNT Digital Library
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Otis Williams has some brief lead lines on the last half of the song (i.e.: he repeats "Reality…"), and
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The Family Stone, "Cloud Nine" was a marked departure from the standard Tempts sound: wah-wah
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swap leads on the verses, bridges and choruses, such as this example from the first bridge:
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Mongo Santamaria recorded his own, instrumental version in 1969 for the
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chart, and led the way for the Temptations' full-blown venture into
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Best Rhythm & Blues Group Performance, Vocal or Instrumental
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and a harder, driving beat propelled the record, as opposed to
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Williams, Otis and Romanowski, Patricia (1988, updated 2002).
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said that "the kids will be on cloud nine when they hear it."
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and strings. The song also features the Cuban percussionist
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over all of his problems by "riding high on 'cloud nine
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Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations
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label. It was the first of their singles to feature
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Single
The Temptations
Cloud Nine
B-side
Hitsville USA (Studio B/Golden World)
Genre
Psychedelic soul
psychedelic funk
Label
Gordy
Songwriter(s)
Norman Whitfield
Barrett Strong
Producer(s)
Norman Whitfield
The Temptations
Please Return Your Love To Me
I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

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