Old-Time Rock ‘n’ Roll:
How The 1980s Embraced 1950s and 1960s Oldies Music
Live at the Apollo
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David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks weren’t part of the Temptations during the eighties. Motown shunned both men. However, Daryl Hall and John Oates, a popular duo of the seventies/eighties and huge Temptation fans wanted to work with the exiled duo in 1985. In 1967, Hall and Oates saw the Temptations together at Philadelphia’s Uptown Theater and had the privilege to meet the band backstage. Hall, Oats, Ruffin, and Kendricks merged their talents for a Live at the Apollo show, which they recorded as a live album. The former Temptations performed Ain't Too Proud to Beg,
Get Ready,
My Girl,
and The Way You Do The Things You Do.
The album went gold. The oldies revival amazed Kendricks who appreciated the newfound support of a generation he stated was conceived in the backseats of their parent’s cars while the car’s radio played his songs. A maligned group of Temptations accepted the bands 1989 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.