[Hugin]

A couple of interesting facts about that song. First, the Temptations version was the second one. It was originally done by The Undisputed Truth in 1971, but didn’t do well, so the Temps redid it a year later.

Also Dennis Edwards of the Temptations at first refused to do it because of the line “It was the third of September/That day I’ll always remember/’cause that was the day/that my daddy died”. He said that was the date his dad actually did die, and thought the writers did it on purpose. He finally did the song. As it turned out he misremembered, his dad actually died on Oct. 3.

[re_nortex]

First, the Temptations version was the second one. It was originally done by The Undisputed Truth in 1971, but didn’t do well, so the Temps redid it a year later.

And that's why I posted my vanity here on FR, my primary source for news, informed opinion and, well, everything, hence my ham-handed reference to intelligentsia (FReepers). Evident in their hit, Smiling Faces is the rich instrumentation that would be heard a year later in "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone".