"Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" is a 1971 US number-one hit
single released on the Gordy (Motown) label, recorded by The Temptations and
produced by Norman Whitfield. The second single from their 1971 Sky's the
Limit album, "Just My Imagination" was the third of four Temptations songs
to go to number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States. The
single held the number-one position on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart for
two weeks in 1971, from March 27 to April 10, replacing "Me and Bobby McGee"
by Janis Joplin, and replaced by "Joy to the World" by Three Dog Night.
"Just My Imagination" also held the number-one spot on the Billboard R&B
Singles chart for three weeks, from February 27 to March 20. Rolling Stone
magazine listed "Just My Imagination" as number 389 on their list of the 500
Greatest Songs of All Time. Today, "Just My Imagination" is considered one
of the Temptations' signature songs, and is notable for recalling the sound
of the group's 1960s recordings. It is also the final Temptations single to
feature founding members Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams. During the
process of recording and releasing the single, Kendricks departed from the
group to begin a solo career, while the ailing Williams was forced to retire
from the act for health reasons.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1519:
Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlan where Aztec tlatoani
Moctezuma II welcomed him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_conquest_of_the_Aztec_Empire)
1520:
Stockholm Bloodbath: Following a successful invasion of Sweden by Danish
forces under Christian II of Denmark, scores of Swedish leaders were
executed despite Christian's promise of general amnesty.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Bloodbath)
1895:
German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen produced and detected
electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range that is known today as
X-rays.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Conrad_R%C3%B6ntgen)
1923:
Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and other members of the Kampfbund started
the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to seize power in Germany.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_Hall_Putsch)
1987:
A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance
Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing at least eleven
people and injuring sixty-three others.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day_bombing)
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
blithely (adv) 1. Without care, concern, or consideration.
2. In a joyful, carefree manner.
(
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blithely)
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!" "However," replied the
Universe,
"the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
--Stephen Crane
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stephen_Crane)