Gordy told him he was too late: "I've already recorded a smash for the Temptations!" They decided to record them both.
Only when the Miracles were at work there, or Robinson was producing Gaye, the Temptations, the Marvelettes or the Supremes, was he called upon to record.
Referring to their great rivalry and the temptation to reclaim the record, she tells the programme's host, Kirsty Young: "There is a part of me that wants that record back, but something's stopping me from doing it".
Given my many other comments on the coal topic and on the recent "Clean Energy Future" package (e.g., here and here), I'm going to try resist the temptation to be a broken record here.
But in later years - not least thanks to his unfailing discretion as a former premier, refusing all temptation to criticise subsequent leaders - his record has been more favourably reassessed.
After taking in $100 million in donations, Mr. Obama is the one setting fund-raising records, presenting a powerful temptation to find a way out of his own proposal so that he might outspend his Republican opponent.
If you do record the meeting, make sure everyone present consents and do not give in to the temptation to create a word-for-word transcript.
Avoid the temptation to stir.
The temptation to risk big.
