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Line 10: | recorded = 1983 | studio = *[[Hitsville U.S.A.]] Recording Studios, *Ritesonian Studio, [[Van Nuys]], Los Angeles, California, United States ("Hollywood") | genre = [[Soul music|Soul]] Line 28: }} '''''Back to Basics''''' is the second of two studio albums released by American [[soul music|soul]] group [[The Temptations]] in 1983. The album saw the group reunited with former producer [[Norman Whitfield]], and would also be the first to feature Ron Tyson as first tenor, who would eventually become the second-longest serving member in the group’s history. It would also be the last studio album with longtime frontman [[Dennis Edwards]] before his second departure and the first appearance of Edwards’ successor [[Ali-Ollie Woodson]].
==Recording== The Temptations had briefly left their long-time home of [[Motown]] for [[Atlantic Records]] in the late 1970s, but the two studio albums they released there were not successful and Atlantic released them from their contract. The band returned to Motown in the early 1980s and still struggled to be commercially viable, so they returned to [[record producer]] [[Norman Whitfield]], who had recorded several of the band's hits in the 1960s for this album.<ref name="amg" /> The group performed at the [[Motown 25]] anniversary concert and then immediately went to the studio for these sessions, but experienced problems with [[Dennis Edwards]] being unreliable due to partying and drug abuse and [[Glenn Leonard]] also growing ==Reception== Line 37: ==Track listing==
#" #" #"Outlaw" – 4:36
#" #" #" #"Isn't the Night Fantastic" ([[Dennis Edwards]], English, [[Glenn Leonard]], Richard Street, Williams) – 4:59 #"Make Me Believe in Love Again" ==Personnel== Line 51 ⟶ 52: *[[Dennis Edwards]] – tenor/baritone vocals except for “Stop the World” *[[Melvin Franklin]] – bass vocals *[[ *[[Richard Street]] – second tenor vocals *[[Ron Tyson]] – first tenor/falsetto vocals *[[Otis Williams]] – baritone vocals *[[Ali-Ollie Woodson]] – tenor vocals '''Additional musicians''' *Billy Bass – bass guitar on "Miss Busy Body (Get Our Body Busy)", "Sail Away", "Outlaw", "Stop the World Right Here (I Wanna Get Off)", and "Make Me Believe in Love Again" *[[Eddie Brown (musician)|Eddie "Bongo" Brown]] – percussion on "The Battle Song (I'm the One)" and "Isn't the Night Fantastic" *Reginald "Sonny" Burke – keyboards on "Isn't the Night Fantastic" *Vic Carstarphen – piano on "Hollywood", Prophet 10 and Jupiter 6 synthesizers on "Hollywood" *David Stephen Cochrane – bass guitar on "Miss Busy Body (Get Our Body Busy)", "Sail Away", "Outlaw", "Stop the World Right Here (I Wanna Get Off)", and "Make Me Believe in Love Again" *Walter Downing – keyboards on "Miss Busy Body (Get Our Body Busy)", "Sail Away", "Outlaw", "Stop the World Right Here (I Wanna Get Off)", and "Make Me Believe in Love Again" *[[The Four Tops]] – vocals on "The Battle Song (I'm the One)" ** [[Renaldo Benson|Renaldo “Obie” Benson]] ** [[Abdul "Duke" Fakir]] ** [[Lawrence Payton]] ** [[Levi Stubbs]] *[[James Gadson]] – drums on "Isn't the Night Fantastic" *[[Paul *Norman Harris – guitar on "Hollywood" *[[Willie Hutch]] – electronic drums on "The Battle Song (I'm the One)", rhythm arrangement on "The Battle Song (I'm the One)", production on "The Battle Song (I'm the One)" Line 80 ⟶ 82: *Jerry Blaze Thompson – drums on "Miss Busy Body (Get Our Body Busy)", "Sail Away", "Outlaw", "Stop the World Right Here (I Wanna Get Off)", and "Make Me Believe in Love Again" *Earl Van Dyke – keyboards on "Isn't the Night Fantastic" *[[David T. Walker]] – guitar on "Isn't the Night Fantastic" *"Ready" Freddie Washington – bass guitar on "The Battle Song (I'm the One)" and "Isn't the Night Fantastic" *[[Norman Whitfield]] – electronic drums *Eddie Willis – guitar on "Miss Busy Body (Get Our Body Busy)", "Sail Away", "Outlaw", "Stop the World Right Here (I Wanna Get Off)", and "Make Me Believe in Love Again" *Benjamin F. Wright, Jr. – electronic drums on "Hollywood", vocal arrangement on "Hollywood", recording on "Hollywood" | |||