In high school I fixed many 8-Track(yep, I'm old) tape players for my friends.
They always left a tape in it for my testing (I was a cassette guy). One friend had a Temptations "In a Mellow Mood" tape. After I fixed his player..I copied the audio onto my cassete recorder and played it over and over again...I know every song by heart.It gave me some definite Mo-Town influence in my music preferences. This is one of my favorites.

I had to make a VR track..it is not too good, but, I went with it.
I added the backing vocals..but..I did not touch the middle backing vocals as it messed-up the VR too much...same as for the ending..but..there I did add my backing guys...I think I refer to them as the "chetlettes", so instead of 4-backing vocals there are 8-voices.

I had a vivid dream back in college that my buddies and I were the Temptations (we always sang along to this when we were on a trip)...In the dream we just missed our train..I ran up to a telephone at the train track and called the train (I guess somehow I knew the number)..I told the conductor "Hey..you gotta come back and get us..We're the Temptations!! ... listen!" ..at that point we all gathered around the phone and did the final "HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmm".

The Temptations in a Mellow Mood is the sixth studio album by The Temptations for the Motown label released in 1967. Composed primarily of pop standards such as "Ol' Man River" and "For Once in My Life" (later a major hit for Motown labelmate Stevie Wonder), and similar songs written by Holland-Dozier-Holland and other Motown staff songwriters, the Mellow Mood album was part of Motown chief Berry Gordy's crossover plans for the group. Gordy wanted the Temptations, already the most popular male group among black audiences, to attract a large white fanbase and be able to secure playdates at supper clubs like the Copacabana, where the group had first performed in the summer of 1967.

The Temptations themselves, and Paul Williams in particular, were worried about appearing as sell-outs to their black fans and the radio DJs who had made them popular in the first place. However, both pop and soul fans responded to the Mellow Mood album, and the Temptations reached Gordy's desired goal of crossing over to white audiences. "Ol' Man River" was already present in the Temptations' performance repertoire as bass Melvin Franklin's solo spot, and "For Once in My Life" soon became a solo showcase for Williams, who performed a particularly acclaimed version of the song for the TCB television special in late 1968. The group would revisit the idea of an album of pop standards in 1995 with For Lovers Only.