Wings of Love

Infobox Album | Name = Wings of Love
Type = Album
Artist = The Temptations


Released = March 10 1976
Recorded = 1975 - 1976
Genre = Soul/Funk/Disco
Length = N/A
Label = Gordy
GS 971
Producer = Jeffrey Bowen
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ws90s38ba3vg link]
Last album = "House Party"
(1975)
This album = "Wings of Love"
(1976)
Next album = "The Temptations Do the Temptations"
(1976)

"Wings of Love" is a 1976 album by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. The album was an unsuccessful release, both commercially and critically. "Wings of Love's" only single, "Up the Creek (Without a Paddle)" was co-written by Sly Stone, the inspiration for many of the Temptations' late 1960s/early 1970s "psychedelic soul" records; because of tax reasons, he could not take a publishing credit on the song. Stone and other members of the Family Stone appear on "Up the Creek", as well as "Sweet Gypsy Jane" and "China Doll"

Producer Jeffrey Bowen preferred Dennis Edwards to the rest of the group, and wanted to produce an Edwards solo album instead of a group album. As a result, Bowen de-emphasized the rest of the group's vocals and placed them at levels far below Edwards' leads, prompting his dismissal as the Temptations' producer after this album's release.

Track listing

#"Sweet Gypsy Jane"
#"Sweetness In The Dark"
#"Up The Creek (Without A Paddle)"
#"China Doll"
#"Mary Ann"
#"Dream World (Wings Of Love)"
#"Paradise"

Personnel

* Dennis Edwards: vocals
* Glenn Leonard: vocals
* Richard Street: vocals
* Melvin Franklin: vocals
* Otis Williams: vocals
*Sly Stone, Truman Thomas: clavinet, organ and ARP
*Freddie Stewart: bass, guitar
*William "Billy Bass" Nelson: bass, guitar
*Rusty Allen: bass
*Ollie E. Brown: drums and percussion
*Pat Rizzo, Steve Madaio: trumpet