Erick and Parrish Making Dollars...now that oughta be quite interesting. From what I hear, they have a whale of a tale.

They were DEF the bomb back in the day, highly underrated.

Hmm very good variety.

I'm more interested in seeing Eddie Kendricks (I just love ole Cornbread ), EPMD and Isaac Hayes, even though I don't feel that Black Moses was actually Unsung but I don't feel like going on the merry-go-round conversation about the true Unsung artists and the ones that aren't topic.

They better do Slave. I also want eps on 5 star, Lisa Stansfield, Ready for the The World, Kurtis Blow, Force Mds and Gil Scott Heron. War would be nice as well and the Average White Band.

Midnight Star, E.P.M.D., The Whispers and more to come!

Shit, if they're doing Midnight Star, why not Starpoint? Not that I advocate that.

How about Syreeta, Sylvia Robinson, Betty Wright and Fifth Dimension and Terence Trent D'aryb?

Eddie Kendricks too Definitely not gonna miss these

Eddie

Watching Eddie's episode is definitely my top priority...big fan! Can't tell you how much his solo stuff was in my family's LP collection. Loved it then, love it now. I know his life story is gonna be filled with tragedy. Chain smoking, drug addiction, death, and unfair treatment from the music industry. This will be one to watch.

Re Eddie, that's if they tell the truth

I will definitely be most interested in the Eddie Kendricks and Isaac Hayes

episodes. Eddie K's solo career was just pedestrian after a stellar run

with the Temps. Isaac's was a gifted songwriter and producer but he

was always stuck with the guy who did Shaft stigma and really didn't get

his due afterwards.

Can't wait fr Midnight Star's.

phunkdaddy said:

I will definitely be most interested in the Eddie Kendricks and Isaac Hayes

episodes. Eddie K's solo career was just pedestrian after a stellar run

with the Temps. Isaac's was a gifted songwriter and producer but he

was always stuck with the guy who did Shaft stigma and really didn't get

his due afterwards.

Pedestrian in what way? I found it sad that people slept on his stuff after his amazing run with The Tempts. That was due to Motown's failure to keep him afloat with the other cats who were knocking shit out of the ballpark with their solo careers (Stevie, Marvin, Diana, Smokey, etc.) But I've always found his solo years at Motown to be just as worthy as his years with The Tempts.

silverchild said:

phunkdaddy said:

I will definitely be most interested in the Eddie Kendricks and Isaac Hayes

episodes. Eddie K's solo career was just pedestrian after a stellar run

with the Temps. Isaac's was a gifted songwriter and producer but he

was always stuck with the guy who did Shaft stigma and really didn't get

his due afterwards.

Pedestrian in what way? I found it sad that people slept on his stuff after his amazing run with The Tempts. That was due to Motown's failure to keep him afloat with the other cats who were knocking shit out of the ballpark with their solo careers (Stevie, Marvin, Diana, Smokey, etc.) But I've always found his solo years at Motown to be just as worthy as his years with The Tempts.

That's not to say none of his stuff was good. Some of his stuff was good but he never

reached the level of success solo as he did with the Temps which is exactly why he's having

an episode. Same for his former fellow fallen temp David Ruffin.

Hmmm, who do y'all think will be the other six?

Hopefully Joe Tex, Five Stairsteps, Little Willie John, ect.

Also, Karyn White will have a Life After coming soon.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Hmmm, who do y'all think will be the other six?

Hopefully Joe Tex, Five Stairsteps, Little Willie John, ect.

Also, Karyn White will have a Life After coming soon.

I doubt it because your list of artist/musicians are the folks this show should be profiling. Seriously, if you asked the producers of Unsung about the artist you mentioned I wouldn't surprised if they only knew Ms. White.

phunkdaddy said:

silverchild said:

Pedestrian in what way? I found it sad that people slept on his stuff after his amazing run with The Tempts. That was due to Motown's failure to keep him afloat with the other cats who were knocking shit out of the ballpark with their solo careers (Stevie, Marvin, Diana, Smokey, etc.) But I've always found his solo years at Motown to be just as worthy as his years with The Tempts.

That's not to say none of his stuff was good. Some of his stuff was good but he never

reached the level of success solo as he did with the Temps which is exactly why he's having

an episode. Same for his former fellow fallen temp David Ruffin.

True. I find that David and Eddie had parallel solo careers, as they never really attained the level of success as they did when they were with The Tempts. Eddie's career fare alittle better though, but when he left Motown, it never got back together. Eddie and Berry were never really friends.

Betty Davis and Cameo please.

What is taking them so long to do a Ready For the World episode?

Paris9748430 said:

What is taking them so long to do a Ready For the World episode?

They should do Ready For The World and Ashford & Simpson.

TD3 said:

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Hmmm, who do y'all think will be the other six?

Hopefully Joe Tex, Five Stairsteps, Little Willie John, ect.

Also, Karyn White will have a Life After coming soon.

I doubt it because your list of artist/musicians are the folks this show should be profiling. Seriously, if you asked the producers of Unsung about the artist you mentioned I wouldn't surprised if they only knew Ms. White.

One of Joe Tex's buddies was all like "you can forget it" about Joe being profiled for Unsung due to TV-One's politricks.

silverchild said:

phunkdaddy said:

That's not to say none of his stuff was good. Some of his stuff was good but he never

reached the level of success solo as he did with the Temps which is exactly why he's having

an episode. Same for his former fellow fallen temp David Ruffin.

True. I find that David and Eddie had parallel solo careers, as they never really attained the level of success as they did when they were with The Tempts. Eddie's career fare alittle better though, but when he left Motown, it never got back together. Eddie and Berry were never really friends.

I think it was pretty obvious why little effort was put into David's career by Motown after his fallout (and firing) with the Tempts but with Eddie, I don't really understand why his career never really reached equal, if not higher, success than his career with the Tempts. He really did put out some funky soulful stuff in his solo days.

silverchild said:

Watching Eddie's episode is definitely my top priority...big fan! Can't tell you how much his solo stuff was in my family's LP collection. Loved it then, love it now. I know his life story is gonna be filled with tragedy. Chain smoking, drug addiction, death, and unfair treatment from the music industry. This will be one to watch.

Yes sir!

missfee said:

silverchild said:

True. I find that David and Eddie had parallel solo careers, as they never really attained the level of success as they did when they were with The Tempts. Eddie's career fare alittle better though, but when he left Motown, it never got back together. Eddie and Berry were never really friends.

I think it was pretty obvious why little effort was put into David's career by Motown after his fallout (and firing) with the Tempts but with Eddie, I don't really understand why his career never really reached equal, if not higher, success than his career with the Tempts. He really did put out some funky soulful stuff in his solo days.

I agree his stuff was good and and as soulful as his songs with the Temps were. David Ruffin I think surrounded himself with bad managers. He also was also a drug addict and majority of the time artists popularity decline is due to drug use. David had the talent to become a big star even though people know who he is his contributions and importance to the Temps is overlooked. The Temps became succesful without David but their immortalized hits was 95% of the time by David Ruffin.

I always considered David the voice of the Temptations, Eddie the soul, Melvin the bass and Paul the heart. And Dennis as the grit. Otis... I'm blank.

Timmy84 said:

I always considered David the voice of the Temptations, Eddie the soul, Melvin the bass and Paul the heart. And Dennis as the grit. Otis... I'm blank.

Thats because Otis didnt contribute anything but he likes to run his mouth like he did and that he ran everything just because he is the only living original Tempt

mjscarousal said:

Timmy84 said:

I always considered David the voice of the Temptations, Eddie the soul, Melvin the bass and Paul the heart. And Dennis as the grit. Otis... I'm blank.

Thats because Otis didnt contribute anything but he likes to run his mouth like he did and that he ran everything just because he is the only living original Tempt

Well that's why I'm blank on Otis.

scriptgirl said:

They better do Slave. I also want eps on 5 star, Lisa Stansfield, Ready for the The World, Kurtis Blow, Force Mds and Gil Scott Heron. War would be nice as well and the Average White Band.

Good choices, Script! Hey, is it me, or are they doing more episodes next year than they have in past seasons?

I wonder since he was bumped off last season will Lou Rawls be the new season's first episode?