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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 are an American vocal group formed in ... Their 1970 album Still Waters Run Deep served as an inspiration for Marvin Gaye's 1971 classic album ...
"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.
It peaked at number four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 the weeks of April 7 and 14, 1973, [1] [2] number one on the Cash Box Top 100 the latter of those two weeks, [3] and became a gold record. The song was originally recorded by the singing trio of Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds and released on their 1972 album, Hallway Symphony .
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.
As a member of the Four Tops, Fakir was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, [23] received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1997, [24] was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 1999, [25] the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2018, [26] received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009, [27] and was included in the ...
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.