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    • Source: Farewell My Love

      • "Farewell My Love" is a 1963 single by The Temptations for the Gordy (Motown) label. It was the last single that was written and produced by Motown president Berry Gordy for well over a decade, and the last released during the period of the "Original 5" lineup (before member Elbridge "Al" Bryant was fired). It is also noted as the group's last single to miss the Billboard pop chart's Top 40 until 1971's "It's Summer" (and the last to not make it on any U.S. music charts for the next 23 years). Up until now the group was jokingly referred to at this time as the "Hitless Temptations" by the Motown staff, much like their "sister" group, The Supremes, were called the "no-hit Supremes". However, their next single, the Smokey Robinson-produced "The Way You Do the Things You Do", would reach the Top 20 of the U.S. pop chart, breaking the group's streak of being "hitless".


      Overview


      The song tells of a couple's breakup; the narrator speaks of his lover being untrue to him and that he's leaving her to find "someone who cares / And still be there" for him. This is the third of the small handful of pre-psychedelic era songs the group recorded that had more than two members singing lead at one point; the previous were "Isn't She Pretty" and "Check Yourself". As with "Isn't She Pretty", Paul Williams is the song's main lead, yet the song mainly showcases another group member, in this case Eddie Kendricks, who alternates between his famous falsetto and his natural register (first and second tenor). Bryant's voice is also prominently heard here, delivering harmony solos behind Kendricks' and Williams' leads as well as having brief lead lines on the first two choruses ("To me" and "I'm going cry"). Bass singer Melvin Franklin starts the song with do-wop harmonies and later repeats Williams' line, "Why couldn’t you be true?" at the end of the second verse. Although second tenor/baritone singer and leader Otis Williams doesn't have any solos, he is most heard prominently in the chorus and has some ad-libs in the outro of the song.
      Although it did not chart nationally, the song was a regional smash hit in the country's mid-west. This would be the group's final A-side released with Williams as the main lead (although B-side releases "Just Let Me Know", "Baby, Baby I Need You", and "Don't Look Back" would be promoted as if they were), and the final one to feature Bryant's vocals altogether (his voice however would appear on two later B-sides). The next three singles from the group would have Kendricks on lead, and then, beginning with "My Girl", David Ruffin, Bryant's replacement, would become the Temptations' new main lead singer.


      = Personnel

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      Lead vocals by Paul Williams (verses, bridge), Eddie Kendricks (choruses, outro), Al Bryant (choruses, harmony vocals), and Melvin Franklin (2nd verse, harmony vocals)
      Background vocals by Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, Melvin Franklin, Al Bryant, and Otis Williams
      Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers


      "May I Have This Dance"



      The B-side to "Farewell My Love" was "May I Have This Dance". (recorded on November 2, 1962). Despite speculation by some that the recorded version of this song was led by Elbridge "Al" Bryant (who performed the lead on stage and was originally credited as the track's lead), in fact it features a lead vocal from Eddie Kendricks in which he's singing mostly in his (rarely recorded) natural tenor and not his more familiar falsetto, which is only heard near the song's end.


      = Personnel

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      Lead vocals by Eddie Kendricks
      Background vocals by Paul Williams, Melvin Franklin, and Otis Williams
      Written by Norman Whitfield and Janie Bradford
      Produced by Norman Whitfield
      Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers


      References

    • Source: Farewell, My Love

      • Farewell, My Love is a 2001 action film by Randall Fontana starring Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Phillip Rhys, and Robert Culp.


      Movie Info


      Fitzpatrick plays a kind avenging angel who takes revenge on a mob that killed her family. Robert Culp, Brion James, Phillip Rhys, and Mark Sheppard co-star in this action drama that contains a measure of violence and sex that would appeal to a certain audience.


      Plot


      A mysterious assassin named Brigit (Fitzpatrick) starts killing apparently unrelated Russian criminals. She befriends an old arm dealer Renault (James) who trains her and helps her. Brigit reveals that four of them; George (Mitchell), Natalya (Wynter), Sergei (Lauter) and Peter (Foster) invaded her home when she was a teen, killed her father by shooting him, gang-raped and then kill her mother and molested and wounded her leaving her for dead. However she survived and swore revenge. Peter, the last of the original four to still be alive, manages to ambush her and kills Renault. She joins forces with Renault's son Luc and after some double crossing both her and Luc avenge their parents killing Peter.


      Cast


      Gabrielle Fitzpatrick as Brigit
      Kimberlee Peterson as Young Brigit
      Phillip Rhys as Luc
      Robert Culp as Michael Reilly
      Ed Lauter as Sergei Karpov
      Adam Baldwin as Jimmy, The Bartender
      Brion James as Renault
      Stephen Gregory Foster as Peter
      Sarah Wynter as Natalya
      Hamilton Mitchell as George Karpov
      Constance Zimmer as Kyle
      Mark Sheppard as M.J.
      Craig Aldrich as Paddy
      Jim Landis as Doctor
      Jane Fontana as Club Singer
      Catherine McGoohan as Mrs. Fauve
      Genevieve Maylam as Julie
      Lorielle New as Dahra
      Samantha Lemole as Amy
      Chris Byrne as Chino
      Ron Althoff as Bouncer #1
      Warren A. Stevens as Bouncer #2
      Chuck Hicks as Bouncer #3
      Buckley Norris as Drunk
      Trevor Coppola as Phil Conway


      Technical


      Direct to Video


      References




      External links


      Farewell, My Love at IMDb

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