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The Very Best Of The Four Tops At "The MGM Grand" / MacArthur Park, Baby I Need Your Lovin', Bernadette, It's The Same Old Song, Just Walk Away Renee, Reach Out, I'll Be There / Original Live Recordings / Wise Buy ‎Audio CD / WB 885522

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The Very Best Of The Four Tops At "The MGM Grand" / MacArthur Park, Baby I Need Your Lovin', Bernadette, It's The Same Old Song, Just Walk Away Renee, Reach Out, I'll Be There / Original Live Recordings / Wise Buy ‎Audio CD / WB 885522

UPC 0724348855220

Label: Wise Buy ‎– WB 885522
Format: CD, Compilation
Genre: Funk / Soul
 
 

Tracklist:

1. Introduction
2. MacArthur Park
3. Shake Me Wake Me (When It’s Over)
4. Baby I Need Your Lovin’
5. In The Stll Of The Night
6. Ain’t No Woman Like The One I Got
7. When She Was My Girl
8. Ask The Lonely
9. I’ve Got You Under My Skin
10. Medley:
      Bernadette
      It’s The Same Old Song
      Just walk Away Renee
      Reach Out, I’ll Be There
      Standing In The Shadows Of Love
      Sugar Pie Honey Bunch
      (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
      Jumpin’ Jack Flash

 

1 Introduction 2:41
2 MacArthur Park 6:49
3 Shake Me, Wake Me /When It's Over)     
3:09
4 Baby I Need Your Lovin' 7:19
5 In The Still Of The Night 3:06
6 Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got 3:26
7 When She Was My Girl 5:56
8 Ask The Lonely 4:49
9 I've Got You Under My Skin 5:42
  Medley (20:10)
10a Bernadette  
10b It's The Same Old Song  
10c Just Walk Away Renee  
10d     
Reach Out, I'll Be There  
10e Standing In The Shadows Of Love  
10f Sugar Pie Honey Bunch  
10g Satisfaction  
10h Jumpin' Jack Flash  
 
 
 

The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan who helped to define the city's Motown sound of the 1960s. The group's repertoire has included soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, doo-wop, jazz, and show tunes.

Founded as the Four Aims, lead singer Levi Stubbs, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton remained together for over four decades, performing from 1953 until 1997 without a change in personnel.

The Four Tops were among a number of groups, including the Miracles, the Marvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas, the Temptations, and the Supremes, who established the Motown Sound heard around the world during the 1960s. They were notable for having Stubbs, a baritone, as their lead singer, whereas most other male and mixed vocal groups of the time were fronted by a tenor.

The group was the main male vocal group for the highly successful songwriting and production team of Holland–Dozier–Holland, who crafted a stream of hit singles for Motown. These included two Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits for the Tops: "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" in 1965 and "Reach Out I'll Be There" in 1966. After Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown in 1967, the Four Tops were assigned to a number of producers, primarily Frank Wilson, but generally with less success.

When Motown left Detroit in 1972 to move to Los Angeles, California, the Tops stayed in Detroit but signed a new recording deal with ABC Records' Dunhill imprint. Recording mainly in Los Angeles, they continued to have chart singles into the late 1970s, including the 1973 million-seller "Ain't No Woman", their second release on Dunhill, produced by Steve Barri and the composers Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter.

In the 1980s, the Four Tops recorded for Casablanca Records, Arista Records and Motown, returning to that label on two occasions for brief stays. Apart from their 1988 album Indestructible (owned by Sony Music Entertainment), Universal Music Group controls the rights to their entire post-1963 catalog (through various mergers and acquisitions) and also their 1956 single, "Could It Be You".

A change of lineup was forced on the group when Lawrence Payton died on June 20, 1997. The group initially continued as a three-piece under the name the Tops,[1] before Theo Peoples (formerly of the Temptations) was recruited as the new fourth member. Peoples eventually took over the role of lead singer when Stubbs suffered a stroke in 2000, with Ronnie McNeir then joining the group. On July 1, 2005, Renaldo "Obie" Benson died of lung cancer. Payton's son Roquel Payton replaced him. Levi Stubbs died on October 17, 2008. Harold "Spike" Bonhart replaced Peoples in 2011.

On January 1, 2019, Harold Spike Deleon Bonhart was replaced by Alexander Morris. Morris, a pastor in the city of Detroit, was born into a musical family, his mother Betty L. Morris-January was lead singer of the 1950s gospel group The January Sisters. His father, the Late Reverend Joseph A. Morris was also a prominent pastor in the city of Detroit, but in his early years was a jazz musician, playing for Gene Calloway, older sister of Cab Calloway. Morris also known for his songwriting and production, has worked with many artists throughout the music industry. Morris, McNeir, Roquel Payton and Fakir, who is the only surviving founding member of the group, are still performing as the Four Tops.

 
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