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Ain't Too Proud To Beg

"Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
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Single by The Temptations
from the album Gettin' Ready
B-side "You'll Lose a Precious Love"
Released May 3, 1966
Format 7" single
Recorded Hitsville USA (Studio A); January 4 and January 11, 1966
Genre Soul, R&B
Length 2:36
Label Gordy
G 7054
Writer(s) Norman Whitfield, Edward Holland, Jr.
Producer(s) Norman Whitfield
The Temptations singles chronology
"Get Ready"
(1966)
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
(1966)
"Beauty Is Only Skin Deep"
(1966)
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
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Single by The Rolling Stones
from the album It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
B-side "Dance Little Sister"
Released October 25, 1974
Format 7" single
Recorded Musicland Studios, Munich; November 1973
Genre Rock
Length 3:31
Label Rolling Stones
Writer(s) Norman Whitfield, Edward Holland, Jr.
Producer(s) The Glimmer Twins
The Rolling Stones singles chronology
"It's Only Rock'n Roll (But I Like It)"
(1974)
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
(1974)
"Fool to Cry"
(1976)
It's Only Rock 'n Roll track listing
"Ain't Too Proud to Beg"
Single by Rick Astley
from the album Hold Me in Your Arms
Released February 27, 1989
Recorded 1988
Writer(s) Norman Whitfield, Edward Holland, Jr.
Producer(s)

"Ain't Too Proud to Beg" is a 1966 song and hit single by The Temptations for Motown Records' Gordy label, produced by Norman Whitfield and written by Whitfield and Edward Holland, Jr. The song peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Pop Chart, and was a number-one hit on the Billboard R&B charts for eight non-consecutive weeks. The song's success, in the wake of the relative underperformance of the previous Temptations single, "Get Ready", resulted in Norman Whitfield replacing Smokey Robinson, producer of "Get Ready", as The Temptations' main producer. In 2004 it finished #94 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs poll thanks to its inclusion in The Big Chill soundtrack.

The Rolling Stones made the Billboard Pop Chart Top 20 with a 1974 single release, from their album It's Only Rock 'n Roll.

Motown had a policy that the producer who had the biggest hits on a particular artist was assigned as the main producer for that artist, and was given preference when singles were selected for release by Motown's Quality Control department. By 1966, Motown artist, songwriter, and producer Smokey Robinson had by that default earned creative control over The Temptations, after a string of hits such as "The Way You Do the Things You Do", "My Girl", and "Since I Lost My Baby".

Norman Whitfield, an up-and-coming songwriter and producer at Motown who'd had some success with Marvin Gaye and The Velvelettes, had worked with the Temptations on singles such as "Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)" (1964), and coveted Robinson's role as their producer. Finally creating an instrumental track he thought would make it, Whitfield enlisted lyricist Edward Holland, Jr. (of Holland-Dozier-Holland fame) to write lyrics to Whitfield's instrumental. Although Holland didn't think Whitfield had a chance of stealing Robinson's act (especially since Robinson was Motown CEO Berry Gordy's best friend), he contributed his services to the song, resulting in "Ain't Too Proud to Beg".


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