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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.
The first follow-up single, "Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)" (1964), just missed both the pop and R&B Top 40 charts, but "Ask the Lonely" (1965), written and produced by Motown A&R head William "Mickey" Stevenson with Ivy Jo Hunter, was a Top 30 pop hit and a Top 10 R&B hit in early 1965.
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.
With the Four Tops, Fakir was a voice on a vast litany of hits through the decades, including some of the defining songs of the 1960s, such as the Top 10 successes “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar ...
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.
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]
[2] The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, #8 on the Cash Box Top 100. [3] On the R&B chart, "Bernadette" went to #3.. [4] It also reached #8 in the UK and was a hit again in 1972, reaching #23. [5] The song is notable for its false ending, where the instruments drop out and the background singers hold a chord. Lead singer Levi Stubbs ...
"You Keep Running Away" is a Holland-Dozier-Holland composition originally recorded in 1967 by the Four Tops. [1] The song appears on their 1971 LP Four Tops Greatest Hits Vol. 2. Billboard described the single as a "solid easy heat rocker that moves from start to finish has all the ingredients for another chart topper." [2]