Conversation so far:
who was in the temptations?
Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams.
where were they from?
Birmingham.
how did they get started?
By their teenage years, they formed a doo-wop quartet in 1955 with Kell Osborne and Wiley Waller, naming themselves the Cavaliers.

Question: how successful were they as the Cavaliers?
Self-contained rewrite: How successful were Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams as the Cavaliers?