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"Levi Stubbs' Tears" is a song by Billy Bragg. [1] It was the first single released from Bragg's 1986 album Talking with the Taxman about Poetry.The song's title refers to The Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs, whose music remains a source of comfort to the protagonist through years of abandonment, injury, and domestic violence.
"Levi Stubbs' Tears" refers to songwriter Barrett Strong, producer Norman Whitfield, the members of the Holland-Dozier-Holland songwriting and production team as well as Levi Stubbs and the Four Tops. The original album cover has the subtitle "The Difficult Third Album". [2]
Levi Stubbs (born Levi Stubbles, June 6, 1936 – October 17, 2008) was an American baritone singer, widely known as the lead vocalist of the R&B group the Four Tops, that released a variety of Motown hit records during the 1960s and 1970s. He was noted for his powerful, emotional, and dramatic singing style.
But Fakir, lead singer Levi Stubbs, Renaldo “Obie” Benson and Lawrence Payton had been together for a decade when Gordy signed them up in 1963 (after the group had turned him down a few years ...
Levi Stubbs' Tears; Ideology; The Saturday Boy; The Warmest Room; Days Like These; To Have and To Have Not; Between the Wars; A New England; References
Engineer Red Campbell monitors the mixing console while recording the SiriusXM show "Live From Motown Musuem" with hosts John Mason and Levi Stubbs III at Hitsville Next in Detroit on Thursday ...
Giddy up, Beyhive! Beyoncé just revealed the track list for her upcoming Act II album, Cowboy Carter. Queen Bey dropped the song list on Wednesday, two days before the album drops.The highly ...
Volume 1 is a box set by alternative folk singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, released in 2006.The box set includes 7 CDs and 2 DVDs with a booklet containing song lyrics and an introduction by Wiggy, producer of several of Bragg's albums.