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With the help of Payton's songwriter cousin Roquel Davis, the Aims signed to Chess Records in 1956, changing their name to the Four Tops to avoid confusion with the Ames Brothers. [ 3 ] Over the next seven years, the Tops had unsuccessful tenures at Chess, Red Top, Riverside Records and Columbia Records . [ 3 ]
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.
On Top is the third studio album recorded by the Four Tops. Issued by Motown Records on July 8, 1966, [3] it reached number 32 on the US Billboard Top LPs chart and number 9 in the UK. It contains two singles: "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" and "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)". The second half of the album consists of cover songs.
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.
Simplified is the ninth studio album by Simply Red, released in October 2005.It features new, rearranged recordings of the band's older songs, and four new songs: "Perfect Love" and an alternate version, "My Perfect Love", a cover of Leon Russell's "A Song for You", and "Smile".
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".
Tonight! is a 1981 studio album by American soul music vocal group Four Tops, released by Casablanca Records.This was the first album the group recorded for this label followed a short period of commercial a decline in the 1970s, as well as a failed experiment at recording with former Motown associates Holland–Dozier–Holland. [2]
"Sweet Understanding Love" is a 1973 hit song recorded by the Four Tops for the ABC Records label. The song was the second of three single releases from their sixteenth studio album, Main Street People. The title track of the LP is on the B-side of the 45.