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The Four Tops were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999, and the National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame in 2013. In 2010, Rolling Stone ranked them No. 79 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".
"Still Water (Love)" is a 1970 hit single written by Smokey Robinson and Frank Wilson (who also produced the track) for the Motown singing group Four Tops. The B-side was "Still Water (Peace)" [ 3 ] and both songs appear on the 1970 album Still Waters Run Deep .
This is the discography of all the singles and albums released by Motown singing group the Four Tops.. Throughout their career, 24 of their singles reached the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 with seven of them reaching the top ten and two reaching number one on the chart.
"Standing in the Shadows of Love" is a 1966 hit single recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland , the song is one of the best-known Motown tunes of the 1960s.
The album yielded the popular Top 30 hits, "Still Water (Love)" (#11), which was co-written by Smokey Robinson and their cover of "It's All in the Game" (#24), which featured rare co-leads by Four Tops members Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton singing alongside prominent lead Levi Stubbs.
"Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" is a song written by Ivy Jo Hunter and Stevie Wonder, originally released in 1966 by the Four Tops via the Motown label. [2] In addition to co-writing the song, Wonder also instrumentally contributed drums to the track.
A review in Billboard recommends this album to retailers as a "super set" with "stunning live performances". [1] Editors at AllMusic Guide scored this release 2.5 out of five stars, with reviewer Andrew Hamilton praising the "crack sound system" for the recording and opining that several of the live versions rival their studio recordings in quality.
"Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)" was the follow-up to the Four Tops' prior hit "Baby I Need Your Loving," and was designed to sound similar, with a similar theme, similar tempo and similar sound. [1] The bass harmony similarly uses a subdominant progression. [2] The opening lyrics essentially repeat the title of the earlier ...