| Puzzle People | ||||
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| Released | September 23, 1969 | |||
| Recorded | 1969 | |||
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| Length | 43:37 | |||
| Label | Gordy GS 949 | |||
| Producer | Norman Whitfield | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
| Rolling Stone | (favourable)[2] |
Puzzle People is the eleventh studio album released by American soul quintet The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label in 1969. Produced entirely by Norman Whitfield, Puzzle People expanded on the psychedelic soul sound of the Temptations' previous LP, Cloud Nine. Although a few straightforward soul ballads are present, the album is primarily composed of Sly & the Family Stone/James Brown-derived proto-funk tracks such as the lead single "Don't Let the Joneses Get You Down", and the number-one Billboard Pop hit "I Can't Get Next to You".
Puzzle People was released simultaneously with Together, a duets album of covers by the Temptations and labelmates Diana Ross & the Supremes. It peaked into the Top 5 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart, and spent fifteen weeks at number one on the R&B Albums chart.
- ^ "Puzzle People - the Temptations | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
- ^ Bangs, Lester (7 February 1970). "Records". Rolling Stone. No. 40. San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, Inc.