{"id":2375,"date":"2015-10-04T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-04T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2015-10-01T17:01:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T22:01:27","slug":"sunday-brunch-with-the-temptations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=2375","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Brunch With The Temptations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/The-Temptations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2376 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/The-Temptations-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"The Temptations\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/The-Temptations-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/The-Temptations-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/keener13.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/The-Temptations.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Bob Berry<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;<strong><em>I need rain to disguise the tears in my eyes<\/em><\/strong>&#8230;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody sang a &#8220;pain&#8221; song than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/lists\/100-greatest-singers-of-all-time-19691231\/david-ruffin-20101202\"><strong>David Ruffin<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ain&#8217;t Too Proud To Beg&#8221;, &#8220;Since I Lost My Baby&#8221;, &#8220;I Know I&#8217;m Losing You&#8221;, David&#8217;s last song with the Tempts, &#8220;It&#8217;s You That I Need&#8221;, and more.<\/p>\n<p>But above all, stands &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Wish_It_Would_Rain\"><strong>I Wish It Would Rain<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>From Earl Van Dyke&#8217;s opening notes on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20130401\/ENT04\/304010385\"><strong>Motown Steinway<\/strong><\/a>, to the very tasty and restrained track by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history-of-rock.com\/funk_brothers.htm\"><strong>The Funk Brothers<\/strong><\/a> , and the incredible blend of the background vocals , &#8220;Rain&#8221; is a great track. And then..<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em><strong>Sunshine, blue skies, please go away, My girl has found another, and gone awa<\/strong>y<\/em>..&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody sang a &#8220;pain&#8221; song like David Ruffin.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday Brunch celebrates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motownmuseum.org\/\"><strong>The Motown Sound<\/strong><\/a> with the original &#8220;Fab Five&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Temptations- &quot;I Wish It Would Rain&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BrjJeP1GGxY?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><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bob Berry &#8220;&#8230;I need rain to disguise the tears in my eyes&#8230;&#8221;. Nobody sang a &#8220;pain&#8221; song than David Ruffin. &#8220;Ain&#8217;t Too Proud To Beg&#8221;, &#8220;Since I Lost My Baby&#8221;, &#8220;I Know I&#8217;m Losing You&#8221;, David&#8217;s last song with the Tempts, &#8220;It&#8217;s You That I Need&#8221;, and more. But above all, stands &#8220;I Wish It Would Rain&#8220;. From Earl Van Dyke&#8217;s opening notes on the Motown Steinway, to the very tasty and restrained track by The Funk Brothers , and the incredible blend of the background vocals , &#8220;Rain&#8221; is a great track. And then.. &#8220;Sunshine, blue skies, please&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,2],"tags":[535,534,452,226,221,283],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bob-berry","category-keener","tag-david-ruffin","tag-i-wish-it-would-rain","tag-sunday-brunch-music","tag-the-funk-brothers","tag-the-motown-sound","tag-the-temptations","wpcat-160-id","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2381,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/2381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}