{"id":463,"date":"2024-01-20T22:46:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T06:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:30:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:30:45","slug":"temptations-vs-smokey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Temptations vs Smokey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ended up going down a rabbit hole of Temptation songs and ended up at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smoothradio.com\/features\/top-songs\/temptations-songs-best-ranked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.smoothradio.com\/features\/top-songs\/temptations-songs-best-ranked\/<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t recognize You&#8217;re My Everything and when 0:44 hit, I KNEW I heard this triplet before:<\/p>\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=\"The Temptations - You&#039;re My Everything\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wp05C4q9SsE?start=42&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And it was Tracks of My Tears from Smokey Robinson and the Miracles I was thinking of:<\/p>\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=\"The Tracks Of My Tears\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HnJNZJzl2FQ?start=130&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d like to think that both the Temptations and Smokey shared musical ideas during this time in the mid-60s and influenced one another. Or maybe this is a generic phrase. Anyway, Motown during that time &#8211; what a time to be alive.<\/p>\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=\"The Simpsons: What A Time To Be Alive\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QpEc_lj7TJU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ended up going down a rabbit hole of Temptation songs and ended up at https:\/\/www.smoothradio.com\/features\/top-songs\/temptations-songs-best-ranked\/. I didn&#8217;t recognize You&#8217;re My Everything and when 0:44 hit, I KNEW I heard this triplet before: And it was Tracks of My Tears from Smokey Robinson and the Miracles I was thinking of: I&#8217;d like to think that &#8230; <a title=\"Temptations vs Smokey\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/?p=463\" aria-label=\"More on Temptations vs Smokey\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kaytat.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}