Who Did It Better

The Temptations OR Al?

The Temptations The Temptations 1964

The Way You Do the Things You Do

Written by Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers

The way you do the things you do
It makes me wanna love you

What's this song about ↓

A dance between power and submission, a man completely undone by the effect a woman has on him. The Temptations recorded it as a Smokey Robinson-penned classic, with he trying to find the words to describe how a woman's presence makes him feel. The way you do the things you do... she does not even try, and he is helpless. joyful rather than desperate, a celebration of the feeling of being out of control in the best possible way. The arrangement is classic Motown: tight harmonies, a swinging rhythm section, the kind of production that makes the heart beat faster.

That same joyful helplessness gets a completely different temperature in

Al Green Al Green 1971

Variation A — side column

The Temptations 1964
Al Green 1971

I already know

Play me a sample

The Temptations Al

I need to be convinced

Variation B — left & right edges

The Temptations 1964

I already know

Play me a sample

The Temptations Al

I need to be convinced

Al Green 1971

Variation C — filled color-coded buttons

The Temptations 1964
Al Green 1971

I already know

Play me a sample

The Temptations Al

I need to be convinced

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Who Did It Better

The Temptations OR Al?

The Temptations The Temptations 1964
Al Green Al Green 1971

The Way You Do the Things You Do

Written by Smokey Robinson, Bobby Rogers

The way you do the things you do
It makes me wanna love you

What's this song about ↓

A dance between power and submission, a man completely undone by the effect a woman has on him. The Temptations recorded it as a Smokey Robinson-penned classic, with he trying to find the words to describe how a woman's presence makes him feel. The way you do the things you do... she does not even try, and he is helpless. joyful rather than desperate, a celebration of the feeling of being out of control in the best possible way. The arrangement is classic Motown: tight harmonies, a swinging rhythm section, the kind of production that makes the heart beat faster.

That same joyful helplessness gets a completely different temperature in

Variation A — side column

The Temptations 1964
Al Green 1971

I already know

Play me a sample

The Temptations Al

I need to be convinced

Variation B — left & right edges

The Temptations 1964

I already know

Play me a sample

The Temptations Al

I need to be convinced

Al Green 1971

Variation C — filled color-coded buttons

The Temptations 1964
Al Green 1971

I already know

Play me a sample

The Temptations Al

I need to be convinced

The Sunday Drop
One song. One story. Every Sunday.

No algorithms. No trending sections. Just a song someone loved and the story behind it. Delivered Sunday morning.

Free. No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.

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