Runaway Child, Running Wild
The Temptations | Artist Essentials
First released: 1969 (year verified)
Original 1969 full album performance, approximately 9:35
MusicAtlas editorial note: The full album performance gives the instrumental passages space to extend the tension beyond the sung sections.
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First released: 1969 (year verified)
The selected original recording is documented in 1969 in the release history of Cloud Nine. Only year precision is assigned. Later singles, annual-list appearances, reissues and different performances do not replace the original year.
Recording: Original 1969 full album performance, approximately 9:35
Credit: The Temptations
Role in this collection: Original group performance
Original album: Cloud Nine
Cloud Nine - original 1969 album program
The original ten-track program identifies the complete approximately 9:35 Runaway Child, Running Wild in 1969. It separately carries the earlier 1968 date for the Cloud Nine recording; neither the shorter Runaway Child single nor another performers version is the selected long performance. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Complete Motown Singles - original 1969 program
The original program documents I Cant Get Next to You, the shorter Runaway Child single and the late-1969 Psychedelic Shack single. Short edits and other performers with the same title remain separate from the chosen full album performances. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Temptations Gold - recording-specific years and separately labeled single editions
The licensed anthology distinguishes the approximately 4:46 Runaway Child, 6:57 Papa Was a Rollin Stone and 4:21 Masterpiece single presentations from the selected full original album performances. Its recording fields also identify Superstar in 1971; the 2005 compilation is not an original date. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Annual version match under review
The selected recording has release evidence, but its version has not been matched to the retained annual entry. It is omitted from Beyond the yearly lists until this match is resolved.
The complete approximately 9:35 original album performance and approximately 4:46 single are separately documented. The actual annual entry does not specify its edit.
Cloud Nine - original 1969 album program
The original ten-track program identifies the complete approximately 9:35 Runaway Child, Running Wild in 1969. It separately carries the earlier 1968 date for the Cloud Nine recording; neither the shorter Runaway Child single nor another performers version is the selected long performance. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Complete Motown Singles - original 1969 program
The original program documents I Cant Get Next to You, the shorter Runaway Child single and the late-1969 Psychedelic Shack single. Short edits and other performers with the same title remain separate from the chosen full album performances. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
Temptations Gold - recording-specific years and separately labeled single editions
The licensed anthology distinguishes the approximately 4:46 Runaway Child, 6:57 Papa Was a Rollin Stone and 4:21 Masterpiece single presentations from the selected full original album performances. Its recording fields also identify Superstar in 1971; the 2005 compilation is not an original date. | Reviewed 2026-10-18
About The Temptations
The Temptations developed in Detroit and signed to Motown in 1961. Their recordings paired carefully arranged vocal harmonies with coordinated stage movement, making the group sound and visual presentation closely connected. The Way You Do the Things You Do and My Girl helped establish their 1960s repertoire. Later recordings explored funk and psychedelic soul as the membership changed. Those phases remain part of the group's history, distinct from the solo work of singers who passed through it.
Artist background sources
The Temptations - official group history
Detroit and 1961 Motown signing, harmonies/choreography, early repertoire, changing historical lineups and funk/psychedelic soul; current membership and chart totals are omitted. | Retrieved 2026-10-17
Profile reviewed: 2026-10-17. Artist background does not establish a song's creative origin or release date.
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