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The Four Tops - Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album Audio CD

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Title: Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album
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Release Date: 2001-11-12
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Baby I Need Your Loving 2: Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worthwhile) 3: Where Did You Go 4: Ask the Lonely 5: Your Love Is Amazing 6: Sad Souvenirs 7: Don't Turn Away 8: Tea House in China Town 9: Left with a Broken Heart 10: Love Has Gone 11: Call on Me 12: I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) 13: Love Feels Like Fire 14: Is There Anything That I Can Do 15: Something About You 16: It's the Same Old Song 17: Helpless 18: Just as Long as You Need Me 19: Darling, I Hum Our Song 20: I Like Everything About You 21: Since You've Been Gone 22: Stay in My Lonely Arms 23: I'm Grateful

Lost music I love
I had over 15,000 lp albums and tens of thousand 45's they where all lost in a fire and i miss each and everyone of them and i listen to every song on those albums. I've said in previous reveiw I was raised on radio. this is just two of my all time favorites remember I had 15,000.


Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album
For the most part the CD's that are available by the Four Tops have basically all of the same familiar songs with some very slight variations. I can't begin to say enough good things about this CD. The Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album allows you to experirence a few songs that were number one hits for the group and others that are like a breath of fresh air for anyone lucky enough to listen. Every song is a gem in its own right. The quality of the recordings is exceptional.


Speechless
I love to hear Levi sing with so much soul and energy and emotion. I'm so glad I got this CD with both of those albums combined. Thier first hit with Motown "Baby I Need Your Lovin", "Without The One You Love", "Ask The Lonely" "Something About You. But my favorite song on this whole CD is "Where Did You Go". For the life of me I wonder why that was not released s a single. Of course both albums could be 'Greatest Hits'. "Something About you"< " I Cant Help myself", SOmething about you" "Same Old Song". The Top deilivers with the prodution of Holland Dozier Holland. Get this CD and just remember 1964-65 looking at Hullaboo, American Bandstand and the dance shows of the 1960's. .


Their first two Motown albums

The first album, simply titled Four Tops, yielded three American hits -Baby I need your loving, Without the one you love and Ask the lonely. The group had been around since the fifties, but it was only after they joined Motown that they became successful. All three singles were released in the UK but none charted. The Fourmost covered Baby I need your loving and had a British hit with it.

The next album, with the equally unoriginal title Second Album, also yielded three American hits, but they were much bigger hits. The album opens with I can't help myself, which topped the charts and provided them with their first British hit. The lyrics are slightly silly but the song has an irresistible, infectious beat. It's the same old song just missed the top spot in America and also charted in Britain. Something about you was a top 20 American hit but failed to chart in the UK.

Both of these albums are filled with songs written mostly by Holland-Dozier-Holland with a few by Smokey Robinson and one or two co-writers. Later albums would include plenty of covers but they are absent here. These two albums mark the beginnings of a great career.


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