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Making Hits Is As Easy As Pie says Temps Dennis

Ritchie Yorke, New Musical Express, 4 October 1969

"MAKING HIT records," claims Dennis Edwards, lusty lead singer of the Temptations, "is like making cakes. You just need the right basic ingredients and you're cooking. It's as easy as pie." The Temptations speak with authority. They've had more than twenty consecutive hits in America, seven of them Gold records. Current hits in Britain are the singles 'Cloud Nine', and one with Diana Ross and the Supremes 'Second That Emotion'. Their combined album TCB was also a recent LP hit.

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