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58Sunliner

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3. One of the best songs ever. I read there was contention from the Temps because of the longer music breaks.

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Sat Nov 29, 2025, 12:15 PM

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"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" is a song originally performed by Motown recording act the Undisputed Truth in 1972, though it became much better known after a Grammy Award-winning cover by the Temptations was issued later the same year. This latter version of the song became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

"Papa Was a Rollin' Stone" was written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong in 1971. Whitfield produced the original Undisputed Truth version, which was released as a single in May 1972.-Wiki.

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