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CaughtInTheAct | It Was 1992, When The Temptations Live Medley Lit Up The Arsenio Hall Show
CBS TV on air date : Feb.14th, 1992. Medley: “The Way You Do The Things You Do” – “get Ready” – “Just My Imagination” – “My Girl” – “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg” Then newcomers, Boys ll Men were also on the show this iconic night.
Legendary quintet micro-managed – and rightly so – by its surviving original member, Otis Williams, seen herein on the Arsenio Hall Show in ’92 when the lineup was Melvin ‘Blue’ Franklin, bass, Otis Williams, baritone, Ali-Ollie Woodson, tenor-falsetto lead voice, Richard Street, tenor, and Ron Tyson, falsetto lead vocals.
Today only Otis and Ron are still around from this lineup and still singing together. Blue Franklin was 52 when he died in 1995 from congestive heart failure complicated by diabetes, Ali-Ollie Woodson was 59 when he died from leukemia in 2010, and Richard Street dead at 70 in 2013 from pulmonary embolism. Such tragedy for such multi-talented performers.
I saw the Temptations live from the very beginnings of their career when they were billed near the bottom of the weekly lineup at the Apollo Theater in the very early 1960’s when Al Bryant was lead vocalist before David Ruffin came in 2 years later”. – Al Heitzer, (YT Comments)