And the Grammy Goes to...The Temptations!

Entertainment & Music Editors

NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2001

Motown recording group, the Temptations, took home a Grammy this week for Best Traditional R&B Vocal Album for their current release Ear-Resistible. The award was presented to the group Wednesday, February 21 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

This is the Temptations fourth Grammy - their first in over 20 years. They won a Grammy in 1969 for Best Rhythm & Blues Performance by a Duo or Group for the album Cloud Nine, and then won 2 Grammys in 1973, Best Rhythm & Blues Performance by a Duo or Group and Best Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Performance for the single "Papa Was a Rolling Stone." Their songs "My Girl" and "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" were both inducted into the "Grammy Hall of Fame" in 1998 and 1999 respectively. To date the group has accumulated over fifty gold and platinum singles and albums.

Their new Grammy winning album Ear-Resistable features the Joe produced single "I'm Here" which Billboard called "almost too good to be true - a hit for mainstream radio by the enduring, everfab Temptations."

The Temptations were overwhelmed with emotion and gratitude on their recent Grammy win. Otis Williams, the original Temptation who founded and still leads the group, told reporters "We are so blessed by this prestigious award. This group has gone through it all. We've seen it all. The highs have been incredibly high, the lows incredibly low. Through it all, I've been comforted by one idea - that no one man is greater than the sum total. The proof is that we're still here, forty years later, still singing pretty, still climbing the charts, still creating projects, and I can now say Grammy winning projects like Ear-Resistible. So if I call the Temptations God's group, you'll understand why."