I Want a Love I Can See

Infobox Single
Name = I Want a Love I Can See
Artist = The Temptations
from Album = Meet the Temptations
B-side ="The Further You Look, the Less You See"
Released = March 18, 1963
Format = 7" single
Recorded = Hitsville USA (Studio A); January 31 & February 1, 1963
Genre = Soul
Length = 2:30
Label = Gordy
G 7015
Writer = Smokey Robinson

Producer = Smokey Robinson
Last single = "Paradise"
(1962) / "Mind Over Matter (I'm Gonna Make You Mine)"
(1962)
This single = "I Want a Love I Can See"
(1963)
Next single = "Farewell My Love"
(1963)"I Want a Love I Can See" is a 1963 single by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. The single was the group's first A-side to be written and produced by Miracles lead singer Smokey Robinson. [Williams, Otis and Weinger, Harry (2002). My Girl: The Very Best of the Temptations [CD liner notes] . New York: Motown/Universal Records.] Robinson had previously written the B-side "Slow Down Heart", but for over the past year Berry Gordy, Jr. had been The Temptations' main producer.

Although "I Want a Love I Can See" did not chart nationaly, the song was a smash regional hit in some parts of the country and would continue to be used as part of the Temptations' onstage repertoire. Two of the group's live performances of the song were later released and the group's 2001 lineup made a studio remake (renamed "A Love I Can See") for The Temptations album "Awesome".

Credits

* Lead vocals by Paul Williams
* Background vocals by Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin, Al Bryant, and Otis Williams
* Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

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