While Marvin Gaye often gets the credit for giving Tamla Motown its political soul the truth is that the Temptations really started that journey two years earlier in 1969 with
Cloud Nine. While it boasts the forgotten original of I heard it through the Grapevine its core songs are the other two that grapevine shares with it on side one. The title track
Cloud Nine is really a forerunner of both Stevie Wonder's Living for the City and The Temptations own Papa Was a Rolling Stone. It is a tremendous track. Side one closes out with the 9 minutes of
Runaway Child (Running Wild) are as good as urban soul ever got.
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