Track Listing

1. Introduction
2. Get Ready
3. You're My Everything
4. I Truly, Truly Believe
5. I Wish It Would Rain
6. For Once in My Life
7. I Could Never Love Another (After Loving You)
8. Introduction of the Band and Group
9. Hello, Young Lovers
10. With These Hands
11. Swanee
12. Impossible Dream
13. Please Return Your Love to Me
14. (I Know) I'm Losing You
15. Ain't No Sun Since You've Been Gone
16. All I Need
17. (Loneliness Made Me Realize) It's You That I Need
18. No More Water in the Well
19. Save My Love for a Rainy Day
20. Just One Last Look
21. Sorry Is a Sorry Word
22. Now That You've Won Me
23. Two Sides to Love
24. Don't Send Me Away

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #901514 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Album Description
UK version of Motown's '2 Classic Albums On 1 CD Series'. Reissue of 2 of the male vocal groups 60's era albums, 'Live At The Copa' (1968) & 'With A Lot O' Soul' (1967) together o n 1 CD. Packaged in a full color slipcase with original artwork and 8 page booklet. The former LP reached #15 & is out of print in the U.S.; the latter peaked at #7 & is available in the U.S. with a suggested list of $9.97.

Customer Reviews

This one's ok.
I'm not overly impressed w/the Copa part of this cd. They just don't seem to be enjoying themselves as much. Which may be a reflection of what was going on in the group at this time. Now, on the Temptations LIVE!, now that one rocks!! I really wish I was there!! You can hear them doing the claps that go w/certain dance moves (for example My Girl). The audience is going wild and it just seems like a more fun and personable show.

I love Dennis, but I love David more, so I was quite happy to hear him on AWLOS.

Cool two-fer, but if u want real live action, get Temptations LIVE! I might have to buy another one if I wear mine out!!

Edit:7.23.03

**I so take back my previous statements!! While this show doesn't have the same live feel of Temptations LIVE!, it is still a great show. I believe it was Den's first w/the group. He slides right in. He doesn't try to be David...he's Dennis and he was on fire!!! I love the improv stuff he does during I Could Never Love Another. Paul is great, EDDIE IS GREAT (Check out You're My Everything, With These Hands, and Please Return Your Love to Me).

These guys were the masters!!! I am a young fan at 20, but these guys envoke more out of me than ANY group of my generation that I probably SHOULD be listening to! I can't speak about the current crop.as I am a Classic/Hall of Fame Temptfan, but purchase anything with The Voices (David, EDDIE, Paul, and Dennis) and you will NEVER be disappointed!!!

The With A Whole Lot o' Soul cd is classic also. I'm Losing You is the perfect opener for the disc. I love hearing Cornelius Grant on the guitar and Ruffin's heavy breath saying "Ooohooo. Your LOVE is fading!" It sends shivers up my spine!!

I read where people said things are missing from the original Copa LP. I wish they would have left whatever was missing on. I am a sucker for live shows. It shows what a group is really made of.

So cop this one. You're in for a treat!!!

Please Return Your Love to Me!!!
Great great "two-fer". I especially needed to hear "Live At the Copa" given the fact that my original LP copy, (that I purchased over 30 years ago) is full of snap crackle and pop here in the year 2000!! "Copa" is memorable for the immaculate live version of "With These Hands", a beautiful showcase of Eddie Kendricks unforgettable tenor. My complaint about the package is......WHERE'S the "I KNOW I'M LOSING YOU" live version led by Dennis Edwards that is the finale on "Copa"?????? Where is it????? Otherwise, the best from the best!!!!

Incomplete Re-issues
The series of 2 Classic Albums 1CD has brought back into catalogue a lot of lost Motown gems, usually in state of the art mastering and at a reasonable price, and is to be applauded for that. In some cases, it falls short of the ideal, and this is the most striking example I have encountered thus far. To start with, there is the choice of pairing. Live At The Copa was the group's eighth album, from December 1968, and their second live album. With A Lot O' Soul preceded it by three album in August 1967. In between came The Temptations Wish It Would Rain and In A Mellow Mood, both of which share another pairing in the series. Go figure.

More crucially, both albums are incomplete. Two key songs are common to both original albums, (I Know) I'm Losing You and You're My Everything, both major hits for the group. Firstly, (I Know) I'm Losing You is dropped from the end of Live At The Copa, as the applause from the preceding title is hastily and peremptorily faded. Apart from destroying the flow of the original conception of the album, it makes that track unavailable on CD.

Secondly, the studio version of You're My Everything is criminally absent from With A Lot O' Soul. Although this track is available on a number of compilations, its censorship from its rightful original album placing is unforgivable. No reference is made to these cuts, although both titles are shown in the replica sleeves from the original albums as reproduced inside the booklet. As the CD has a playing time of 72:15, both could have been included.

Live At The Copa marked one of the first concert appearances of Dennis Edwards in place of David Ruffin, and took place at the Copacabana in New York at an unspecified date in 1968 (some further details would have been welcomed). It shows how quickly and successfully he integrated into the group. The set mixed familiar Motown material with Broadway standards popular with the sophisticates of the day (an audience being wooed by Berry Gordy), and mostly taken from their In A Mellow Mood album. The recording is jinxed with technical shortcomings, mostly frequent microphone clickings and a badly distorting overload during I Wish It Would Rain, though there are also some very clumsy edits between songs, notably after The Impossible Dream. Whether the latter were on the original album, and so are excusable on grounds of historical accuracy, or are further examples of butchering by the re-issue compilers is unclear.

The Temptations With A Lot O' Soul is a classic Temptations album on many levels - the line-up, the producers and arrangers, the songs - and regarded as among their best of their "old style" releases. Although most of it was produced by Norman Whitfield, there are three Smokey Robinson productions of his own songs (recorded over the summer of 1966), including a cover of Marvin Gaye's Now That You've Won Me; one produced by Frank Wilson; one by Ivy Jo Hunter; and unusually one from the Holland/Dozier/Holland team, Just One Last Look. This is very much in the style of the Four Tops, who did also record an unreleased version in 1967. Two of the others are also in arrangements reminiscent of the Four Tops, the single (Loneliness Made Me Realise) It's You That I Need (originally a single for Eddie Holland in 1963) and Sorry Is A Sorry Word, an Eddie Holland/Ivy Jo song consigned to the B-side of All I Need. The mastering of the studio album is very good, although All I Need does lose a few seconds from the original album version.

The range of the band is shown to excellent advantage and though David Ruffin is quite deservedly the most prominent lead vocalist, Paul Williams is given No More Water In The Well, Otis Williams leads Don't Me Send me Away (both Smokey songs), while Eddie Kendricks sings both Save My Love For A Rainy Day and Two Sides To Love. David and Eddie shared the spotlight on You're My Everything, had it been included.

I hope Motown continue to activate the catalogue with these priceless re-issues, but that they learn from the rather botched job they made of this important release and perhaps prepare a corrected version.