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"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 .
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.
The Four Tops were inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2005. [15] The Four Tops sang the National Anthem before the start of game 5 for the 2011 baseball American League Championship Series (ALCS) between the Texas Rangers and Detroit Tigers on October 13, 2011, in Detroit, Michigan
Later in his career, Robinson wrote lyrics and music for the Contours such as "First I Look at the Purse", as well as the Four Tops' "Still Water" and The Supremes' "Floy Joy". The other Miracles—Bobby Rogers, Pete Moore, Ronnie White, and Marv Tarplin—collaborated with him as writers on many of these hits, and Pete Moore also doubled as co ...
"I Believe in Miracles", their hit song, was written and originally recorded by Mark Capanni in 1973, but his version would be released a year after the Jackson Sisters' version. [3] [4] Capanni also wrote A Day in The Blue. The track reached #72 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1987. [5]
Song author Frank Wilson later co-wrote The Four Tops' 1970 hit "Still Water (Love)" with Robinson. He also went on to co-write The Temptations' 1967 Top 10 hit, "All I Need." Cash Box described the song as a "hard-driving, fast-moving romantic thumper about a lucky lass who has finally met the guy of her dreams." [2]
The Magnificent 7 is a collaborative album combining Motown's premier vocal groups, the Supremes and the Four Tops.Issued by Motown in 1970, it followed two collaborative albums the Supremes did with the Temptations in the late 1960s.
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.