Saturday, February 3, 2018

Saturday Morning's Greatest Hits: Papa Was a Rollin' Stone (1972)

Mere months after it had been originally recorded by the Undisputed Truth, "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" was re-recorded by Motown stablemates The Temptations, which led to an appearance on Soul Train. Notice how the familiar Soul Train logo was taken down, and the Temps' name appeared in the same font in its place. Must've been a practice of the day.



In memory of singer Dennis Edwards, who has passed away.

4 comments:

Chris Sobieniak said...

Found a decent copy of this recording here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyBRTZbDi7g

hobbyfan said...

I was going to use that, but then the poster who put that up rewound his tape, and "Papa" was shown twice, which explains why that video runs for more than 10 minutes.

Chris Sobieniak said...

Some YouTubers have this odd habit of doing that, especially when it comes to "mirroring" other people's videos for some reason.

hobbyfan said...

It happens a lot, probably because they don't know how to time their taping.....