this is about as great as it gets. Tomorrow night, I will have a chance to hear–and meet–the Temptations.
It’s all part of a celebration of a local history project. For many years, local historians have been documenting the history of the African American community in the Gum Springs, Groveton, and Spring Bank communities. Recently, students from West Potomac High School joined in.
Officially, I’ll be on stage to commemorate those activities. Now, I am very excited about the work to preserve the history of our community.
But I gotta tell you, I am just thrilled to have a chance to meet the singing group that takes up more than a little space on my iPod.
I had the pleasure of meeting them a number of years ago. Don’t want to rain on your parade, but at that time (almost 20 years ago) only one original member was around – the bass singer Melvin Franklin. The coolest thing was that he was sitting at the end of the bar at the hotel where I was performing and started singing along with me!
Check out how many different members there have been with The temptations :(
Oops – I guess when I look at that link, there was another original member – Otis Williams. I guess he didn’t have the same effect on me as Melvin Franklin :(
Has been a lot of turnover, that’s for sure. But the arrangements . . .