I Truly Truly Believe. Temptations. 1967. B-side of I Wish It Would Rain. Solo piano in style of Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude No. 1 in C major Well Tempered Clavier. Middle instrumental interlude used as intro. (Magic SF 2)
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baroque motown
Story behind the song
Temptations bass man Melvin Franklin had a rare role as lead singer on the 1967 original. On my version I use the middle instrumental interlude as the intro. Songwriters: H. Gordy / A. Story / N. Johnson
My joke about I Truly Truly Believe: It's a little known piece of fiction that Johann Sebastian Bach visited Detroit in the 18th century. Detroit was a frontier backwater at the time. The celebrity Bach had a fling and after Bach returned to Leipzig, a son B. G. J. Bach was born to add to Bach's other famous sons: C. P. E., Wilhelm F and P. D. Q. The fictitious B. G. J. wrote "I Truly Truly Believe" in the style of his father. Centuries later, Dream Come True was written by the real B. G. J., Detroit's own Berry Gordy Jr who started Motown.