With a combined 17 Number One songs on Billboard’s R&B charts, these two groups represent not only the quintessential Motown sound but authentic American music royalty, their signature harmonies and dashing stage presence defining a generation of popular music.

Both groups continue to thrill audiences around the world, with songs like the Tops’ “Baby, I Need Your Loving” and “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch),” and the Temps’ “My Girl” and “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” and more. Both are inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.