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The Four Tops in 2022. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, and into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them #79 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. [16] The Four Tops were inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2005. [17]
The Four Tops Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by the Four Tops, released in August 1967. It peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard albums chart in the United States, remaining on the chart for 73 weeks, and is the first Motown album to reach No. 1 in Britain. It spent one week at the top of the UK Albums Chart in 1968.
An additional 21 songs have reached the UK Top 40 with ten reaching the top ten and one reaching number one on the chart. Much of the group's catalog is now controlled by Universal Music Group , as a result of various transactions involving many of the record labels for which the Four Tops recorded for over the years.
Domestically, Four Tops Live! was a hit, topping the R&B charts that year [2] and ranking third in Billboard ' s Top R&B LP's of 1967. [3] In the United Kingdom, the record had even more sustaining popularity, reaching fourth place on the charts, [2] staying in the top 10 for three months, [1] and spending 72 total weeks charting. [4]
Four Tops has included "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" on several of their greatest hits albums and compilation albums over the years. It was placed on their first compilation, The Four Tops Greatest Hits , in 1967, followed by The Four Tops Story 1964-72 (1973), Anthology (1974), Greatest Hits (1988), The Ultimate Collection (1997), and ...
The disc contains all but three of the Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 enjoyed by the Four Tops and released on the Motown Records imprint. Four of the tracks included were b-sides — "I Got A Feeling," "If You Don't Want My Love," "I'll Turn to Stone," and "Sad Souvenirs" — "I Got A Feeling" being the flip to "Bernadette," and "Sad Souvenirs" the flip to "I Can't Help Myself."
The music was performed by The Funk Brothers and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra provided the instrumentation. Billboard described the song as a "strong ballad follow-up to [the Four Tops' previous single] ' Without the One You Love .'" [ 4 ] Cash Box described the single as a "throbbing cha cha beat heartbreaker...that the [Four Tops] serve up ...
Four Tops is the 1965 self-titled debut studio album by the American vocal group the Four Tops. The album was produced and mostly written by the Motown's main writing/producing team Holland-Dozier-Holland. Four Tops includes the singles "Baby I Need Your Loving" , "Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)", and "Ask the Lonely".