Phoenix Rising (Temptations album)
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Phoenix Rising is a 1998 album by The Temptations
The Temptations
The Temptations is an American vocal group having achieved fame as one of the most successful acts to record for Motown Records. The group's repertoire has included, at various times during its five-decade career, R&B, doo-wop, funk, disco, soul, and adult contemporary music.Formed in Detroit,...

 for the Motown label, featuring the debut of new Temptations Barrington "Bo" Henderson, Terry Weeks
Terry Weeks
Terry Wayne Weeks is an American R&B and soul singer who is currently one of the lead singers of the legendary Motown quintet The Temptations....

, and Harry McGilberry
Harry McGilberry
Harry McGilberry was an American R&B and soul singer and latter-day bass singer for The Temptations between 1995 and 2003....

. The album, the Temptation's first million-selling album in twenty years, features the hit single "Stay", which samples
Sampling (music)
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 the group's 1965 hit "My Girl". The Temptations' Phoenix Rising was certified Platinum by the RIAA November 15, 1999. The album was tied up with Dru Hill
Dru Hill
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's Enter the Dru
Enter the Dru
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, and 112
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's Room 112
Room 112
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.

Track listing

  1. "Here After" (Interlude)
  2. "Stay"
  3. "False Faces"
  4. "How Could He Hurt You"
  5. "I'm Calling You" (Interlude)
  6. "This Is My Promise"
  7. "My Love"
  8. "Tempt Me"
  9. "If I Give You My Heart"
  10. "Take Me In Your Arms"
  11. "That's What Friends Are For"
  12. "Just Like I Told You"
  13. "Stay" (Remix)

Personnel

  • Terry Weeks
    Terry Weeks
    Terry Wayne Weeks is an American R&B and soul singer who is currently one of the lead singers of the legendary Motown quintet The Temptations....

    : vocals
  • Barrington "Bo" Henderson: vocals ("How Could He Hurt You")
  • Theo Peoples
    Theo Peoples
    Theo Peoples is an African-American R&B/soul singer. The son of a preacher, he was discovered by Ron Tyson and tapped to replace Richard Street in the long-lived Motown group The Temptations in 1992.His first recordings with the group were released in the box set Emperors of Soul where he sang lead...

    : vocals (some songs)
  • Otis Williams
    Otis Williams
    Otis Williams is an American baritone singer. Nicknamed "Big Daddy", he has also acted as a sporadic songwriter and record producer. Williams co-founded the Motown vocal group The Temptations in early 1960 as The Elgins, a group in which he continues to perform...

    : vocals
  • Ron Tyson
    Ron Tyson
    Ron Tyson is an American tenor/falsetto singer and songwriter. Tyson is the current tenor for long-lived singing group The Temptations, filling the role made famous by Eddie Kendricks in the 1960s.-Biography:...

    : vocals
  • Harry McGilberry
    Harry McGilberry
    Harry McGilberry was an American R&B and soul singer and latter-day bass singer for The Temptations between 1995 and 2003....

    : vocals
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