You’re entitled to a few things when your group has earned four Grammys, released 46 Top 10 singles and stayed together 43 years.

You’re entitled to be one of your own biggest fans, like Otis Williams is with the group he founded, The Temptations.

“I’m heading to a meeting in just a minute, and I’ll be listening to The Temptations on the way,” laughs Williams.

You’re also entitled to sing a song about your own group, and no one can call it posturing. The Temptations kick off their 2004 CD — the group’s 60th — with a smooth slice of sound called “Still Tempting.”

“It really is the first time we ever did a song in reference to us,” Williams says. It wasn’t penned by the band, but by a songwriting team that contributed four of the album’s tracks.

“The guys that wrote it, after they saw the miniseries, it inspired them to write a song about the Tempts,” Williams says.

Oh yeah, you’re also entitled to a miniseries. The Temptations got theirs in 1998.

Williams is the only remaining singer from the group’s early days. Still, The Temptations of 2004 bring together what made the Temptations of 1961 a sensation. Namely, great vocal harmony and slick dance moves.

At age 63, Williams can still cut it.

The Temptations

“I can show you better than I can tell you,” he says.

He’s showing the nation with the group’s ongoing tour.

The Temptations formed in Detroit in 1961 and took its direction from a band called The Primes. The Primes, which included future Tempts Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams, combined vocal prowess and choreography. In a time when black acts were all singing doo-wop, it was avant garde, and the band inspired Otis Williams. When The Primes disbanded, the two joined Otis Williams, and Elbridge Bryant and Melvin Franklin formed The Temptations.

After a bit of lineup shuffling and a fruitful pairing with penman and producer Smokey Robinson in the mid-’60s, the hits began flowing.

The group’s enduring popularity can be tied to its biggest smashes. Most of their cuts — “My Girl,” “Papa Was a Rolling Stone,” “Get Ready,” “Just My Imagination,” and “Ball of Confusion” barely scratch the surface — have withstood the test of time. And Williams says that has made it easy to keep touring.

“We take joy in producing the music and extreme joy in bringing it to the people,” he says. “The other night, when we performed in Redding, Pa., we were singing ‘Silent Night,’ and people were literally crying. … When you can touch the human heart like that, it’s priceless.”

And barring an act of God, he’s going to keep the act on the road.

“I’m going to ride the hair off the horse,” he says with a laugh. “The horse will be bald when I get off.”