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Give Love at Christmas is a 1980 Christmas album by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown ) label. Released on August 14, 1980. The group's second holiday release following 1970's The Temptations Christmas Card , it features each Temptation leading on various popular Christmas carols and original Christmas songs. The album includes versions of The Jackson 5 's "Give Love on Christmas Day ", "The Little Drummer Boy ", "This Christmas ", and "Silent Night ", alongside originals written or co-written by Motown founder Berry Gordy, Jr. and Motown star and vice-president Smokey Robinson .
The Temptations' 1980 recording of "Silent Night" (punctuated by bass singer Melvin Franklin 's sign-off of "Merry Christmas, from the Temptations!") became an enduring staple of rhythm and blues radio during the holiday season.[1]
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Track list Title 1. "Give Love on Christmas Day " (Berry Gordy Jr. , Alphonso Mizell , Freddie Perren , Deke Richards ) 3:37 2. "The Christmas Song " (Mel Tormé , Robert Wells ) 5:11 3. "Love Comes With Christmas" (Alice Johnson, Marv Johnson ) 3:46 4. "The Little Drummer Boy" (Katherine Kennicott Davis , Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone ) 4:14 5. "This Christmas" (Donny Hathaway , Nadine McKinnor) 4:26 6. "Everything for Christmas" (Gordy, Teddy Randazzo ) 4:14 7. "Christmas Everyday" (Smokey Robinson ) 2:53 8. "Silent Night" (Franz Grüber , Joseph Mohr ) 6:06
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