{"id":1109,"date":"2021-09-11T04:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-11T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/?p=1109"},"modified":"2021-12-24T04:39:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T09:39:08","slug":"debut-the-irony-of-smokey-sings-the-temptations-on-their-new-single-is-it-gonna-be-yes-or-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/2021\/09\/11\/debut-the-irony-of-smokey-sings-the-temptations-on-their-new-single-is-it-gonna-be-yes-or-no\/","title":{"rendered":"DEBUT  |  The Irony of Smokey Sings The Temptations on their new Single &#8220;Is It Gonna Be Yes Or No&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Back in 1966 Smokey Robinson produced the Temptations second album entitled <em>The Temptations Sing Smokey <\/em>, today, 55 years later, the Temptations called on Smokey to write a song for their upcoming 60th Anniversary Album, Smokey obliged, but was then surprised when asked by Otis Williams to perform the song with them\u2026 Smokey singing with the Temptations is truly ironic after all these years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song, \u201c<em>Is It Gonna Be Yes Or No\u201d <\/em>is featured in the player below and is classic Temptations trademark harmony with alternating leads mainly between Smokey and Ron Tyson as their love interest considers a committed relationship, or not. Either way, whether she do or she don\u2019t, say that she will or she won\u2019t, true fans of the Temptations win, and Smokey, aside from the irony fits right in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Temptations\u2019 60th Anniversary campaign launched this summer and will run through June 2022, in a celebration befitting one of the most revered and prolific musical institutions of all time. The year-long campaign includes the new album dropping in 2022; a 50-city concert tour throughout this year and next and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Give a listen to \u201c<em>Is It Gonna Be Yes or No\u201d<\/em> and then give us your thoughts on Smokey and the Tempts, also as a bonus, take a peek inside of Otis Williams house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Temptations &quot;Is It Gonna Be Yes Or No&quot; Trailer\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nvAM6zc6bP4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Temptations - Is it Gonna Be Yes or No @MGM National Harbor 10\/29\/21\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gavQDZvW6Q0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is It Gonna Be Yes Or No\" width=\"740\" height=\"555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i44zxiQNKjQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Otis Williams\u2019 Digs\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bm2nuJvL72k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>55 years ago Smokey Robinson produced the Temptations second album entitled The Temptations Sing Smokey , today, 55 years later, the Temptations called on Smokey to write a song for their upcoming 60th Anniversary Album, Smokey obliged, but was then surprised when asked by Otis Williams to perform the song with them&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196],"tags":[260,261,385],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2341,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions\/2341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}