Given that the 83-year-old singer is still a member of the Temptations ... Well, we’re getting ready to go into the studio again once the holidays have passed and everything is settled down ...

At 82, he’s still touring the country as the sole surviving original member of the top ... “The Way You Do The Things You Do” and “Get Ready.” He’s the keeper of the flame of a group ...

Even the hook where original Temptations tenor David Ruffin hung ... that it only took him three hours to put it together. "You get inspired and you just do what you learn.