Motown Fever

I’VE NEVER SEEN THIS PHOTO BEFORE.

Why are the four of them so miserable????

Why is Mel so happy?????

Scanned from the CD book for David: The Unreleased Album

That’s my man David, wearing his watch on the outside of his sweater …

So I was randomly going through the completed listings of a seller that had something else I was mildly interested in, and saw that they had recently sold, before I even got to see them (and I check the new Tempts listings on ebay every day), FOUR rare Tempts photos.

It’s probably good that they were sold before I saw them, since they sold for a combined $110, and I probably would have been stupid and hit the “buy it now” button and worried about how to pay for it later.

The awesome thing about the photos is that for all of them, you can click through in the listing and zoom on various parts. So if you’re a dork like me and are like “I wonder what Eddie’s ring looked like,” you can find out.

Anyway, all of the photos are from this session, which I’d seen several photos from before. I had seen this photo, but it was a lot smaller and poor quality.

David’s making kind of a weird face in this one, and Paul and Mel aren’t speaking or something. But what I love about it is how David and Otis are being all buddy buddy. David, who seemed to be quite into casual physical contact, has is harm around Otis’ shoulders. Otis ups the intimacy by putting his arm around David’s waist. And then he’s all like “Hey Eddie, come get in on some of this” and puts his other arm on Eddie’s shoulder.