This RadioMax extended special features our Library of music from 1973 A2Z.
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This RadioMax extended special features our Library of music from 1973 A2Z.
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This RadioMax extended special features our Library of music from 1973 A2Z.
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This RadioMax extended special features our Library of music from 1973 A2Z.
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This RadioMax extended special features our Library of music from 1973 A2Z.
We continue with the completion of letter N and start with O into R and feature music from: Hurricane Smith, Shocking Blue, Rod Stewart, Spinners, America, Three Dog Night, Eagles, Jackson Browne, Led Zeppelin, Ringo Starr, Jim Croce, Lighthouse, Clarence Carter, Allman Brothers Band and many more.
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This RadioMax special features our Library of music from 1973 A2Z.
We continue with the completion of letter M and start with N and feature music from: Paul McCartney & Wings, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Aretha Franklin, John Lennon, Steeleye Span, America, Pink Floyd, Tufano & Giammarese, Queen, Michael Jackson, Sweet, Doobie Brothers and many more.
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This RadioMax special features our Library of music from 1973 A2Z.
We continue with the completion of letter L and start with M and feature music from: Buckingham Nicks, Grass Roots, Brighter Side of Darkness, Jethro Tull, Abba, Paul Simon, Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn, O’Jays, Aerosmith, Four Tops, David Cassidy, Lobo, Robert Knight and many more.
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The Four Tops throughout their career, 24 of their singles reached the Billboard Top 40 with seven of them reaching the top ten and two of them reaching #1 on the chart. An additional 21 have reached the UK Top 40 with ten reaching the top ten and one reaching #1 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.
| 1 | Reach Out I’ll Be There | 1966 |
| 2 | If I Were a Carpenter | 1968 |
| 3 | Walk Away Renée | 1968 |
| 4 | River Deep – Mountain High with The Supremes | 1970 |
| 5 | A Simple Game | 1972 |
| 6 | Indestructible | 1988 |
| 7 | When She Was My Girl | 1981 |
| 8 | It’s All in the Game | 1970 |
| 9 | It’s the Same Old Song | 1965 |
| 10 | Standing in the Shadows of Love | 1966 |
| 11 | Loco in Acapulco | 1988 |
| 12 | 7-Rooms of Gloom | 1967 |
| 13 | Don’t Walk Away | 1981 |
| 14 | I’m in a Different World | 1968 |
| 15 | Bernadette | 1967 |
| 16 | Still Water (Love) | 1970 |
| 17 | You Keep Running Away | 1967 |
| 18 | Keeper of the Castle | 1972 |
| 19 | Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever | 1966 |
| 20 | Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) | 1973 |
| 21 | I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) | 1965 |
| 22 | Something About You | 1965 |
| 23 | Ask the Lonely | 1965 |
| 24 | Are You Man Enough | 1973 |
| 25 | Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life) | 1971 |
| 26 | Sweet Understanding Love | 1973 |
| 27 | Baby I Need Your Loving | 1964 |
| 28 | One Chain Don’t Make No Prison | 1974 |
| 29 | MacArthur Park | 1971 |
| 30 | Yesterday’s Dreams | 1968 |
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The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet from Detroit, Michigan who helped to define the city’s Motown sound of the 1960s. The group’s repertoire has included soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, doo-wop, jazz, and show tunes.
Founded as the Four Aims, lead singer Levi Stubbs, Abdul “Duke” Fakir, Renaldo “Obie” Benson and Lawrence Payton remained together for over four decades, performing from 1953 until 1997 without a change in personnel.
The Four Tops were among a number of groups, including the Miracles, the Marvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas, the Temptations, and the Supremes, who established the Motown Sound heard around the world during the 1960s. They were notable for having Stubbs, a baritone, as their lead singer, whereas most other male and mixed vocal groups of the time were fronted by a tenor.
The group was the main male vocal group for the highly successful songwriting and production team of Holland–Dozier–Holland, who crafted a stream of hit singles for Motown. These included two Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits for the Tops: “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” in 1965 and “Reach Out I’ll Be There” in 1966. After Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown in 1967, the Four Tops were assigned to a number of producers, primarily Frank Wilson, but generally with less success.
When Motown left Detroit in 1972 to move to Los Angeles, California, the Tops stayed in Detroit but signed a new recording deal with ABC Records’ Dunhill imprint. Recording mainly in Los Angeles, they continued to have chart singles into the late 1970s, including the 1973 million-seller “Ain’t No Woman”, their second release on Dunhill, produced by Steve Barri and the composers Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter.
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The Ultimate Collection is a compact disc by The Four Tops, released on Motown Records in October 1997. It is a collection of singles comprising many of the group’s greatest hits, with liner notes written by Stu Hackel.
1. “Reach Out I’ll Be There” 2:59
2. “Standing in the Shadows of Love” 2:36
3. “Bernadette” 3:00
4. “Ask the Lonely” 2:45
5. “Baby I Need Your Loving” 2:44
6. “Without the One You Love (Life’s Not Worth While)” 2:53
7. “It’s the Same Old Song” 2:45
8. “Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever” 2:45
9. “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” 2:43
10. “Something About You” 2:48
11. “I Got a Feeling” 2:59
12. “I’m in a Different World” 3:05
13. “Walk Away Renée” 2:43
14. “What Is a Man” 2:33
15. “A Simple Game” * 2:56
16. “Still Water (Love)” 3:11
17. “(It’s the Way) Nature Planned It” 3:18
18. “It’s All in the Game” 2:50
19. “You Keep Running Away” 2:48
20. “If You Don’t Want My Love” 3:27
21. “7-Rooms of Gloom” 2:53
22. “I’ll Turn to Stone” 2:33
23. “Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over)” 2:41
24. “Sad Souvenirs” 2:39
25. “Yesterday’s Dreams” 2:56
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Today on Sounds of The 80’s we feature: Christopher Cross, Pointer Sisters, Missing Persons, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, Van Halen, Barry Manilow, Warren Zevon, Gregory Abbott, Blue Oyster Cult, Four Tops and more . . .
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Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, and showtunes. Founded in Detroit, Michigan as The Four Aims, lead singer Levi Stubbs (born Levi Stubbles, a cousin of Jackie Wilson and brother of The Falcons’ Joe Stubbs), and groupmates Abdul “Duke” Fakir, Renaldo “Obie” Benson and Lawrence Payton remained together for over four decades, having gone from 1953 until 1997 without a single change in personnel.
Among a number of groups who helped define the Motown Sound of the 1960s, including The Miracles, The Marvelettes, Martha and the Vandellas, The Temptations, and The Supremes, the Four Tops were notable for having Stubbs, a baritone, as their lead singer; most groups of the time were fronted by a tenor. The group was the main male vocal group for the songwriting and production team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, who crafted a stream of hit singles, including two Billboard Hot 100 number-one hits: “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” and “Reach Out I’ll Be There”. After Holland-Dozier-Holland left Motown in 1967, the Four Tops were assigned to a number of producers, primarily Frank Wilson. When Motown left Detroit in 1972 to move to Los Angeles, California, the Tops stayed in Detroit and moved over to ABC Records’ Dunhill imprint, where they continued to have charting singles into the late-1970s. Since the 1980s, the Four Tops have recorded for, at various times, Motown, Casablanca Records and Arista Records. Today, save for Indestructible (owned by Sony Music Entertainment), Universal Music Group controls the rights to their entire post-1963 catalog (through various mergers and acquisitions), as well as their 1956 single, “Could It Be You”.
A change of line-up was finally forced upon the group when Lawrence Payton died on June 20, 1997. The band initially continued as a three-piece under the name The Tops, before Theo Peoples (formerly of The Temptations) was recruited as the new fourth member. Peoples eventually took over the role of lead singer when Stubbs suffered a stroke in 2000 with his position assumed by Ronnie McNeir. On July 1, 2005, Benson died of lung cancer with Payton’s son Roquel Payton replacing him. Levi Stubbs died on October 17, 2008. Fakir, McNeir, Payton, and Harold “Spike” Bonhart, who replaced Peoples in 2011, are still performing together as the Four Tops. Fakir is now the only surviving founding member of the original group. (Source: Wikipedia)
| 1 | Reach Out I’ll Be There |
| 2 | I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) |
| 3 | When She Was My Girl |
| 4 | Standing in the Shadows of Love |
| 5 | Bernadette |
| 6 | Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) |
| 7 | Still Water (Love) |
| 8 | Walk Away Renée |
| 9 | River Deep Mountain High (with The Supremes) |
| 10 | It’s All In The Game |
| 11 | Keeper of the Castle |
| 12 | Seven Rooms of Gloom |
| 13 | It’s the Same Old Song |
| 14 | If I Were a Carpenter |
| 15 | You Keep Running Away |
| 16 | Sweet Understanding Love |
| 17 | Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever |
| 18 | Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life) |
| 19 | I’m In a Different World |
| 20 | Yesterday’s Dreams |
| 21 | Indestructible |
| 22 | Are You Man Enough |
| 23 | You Gotta Have Love in Your Heart (with The Supremes) |
| 24 | Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over) |
| 25 | I Just Can’t Walk Away |
| 26 | A Simple Game |
| 27 | Something About You |
| 28 | Ask the Lonely |
| 29 | One Chain Don’t Make No Prison |
| 30 | If Ever a Love There Was (with Aretha Franklin) |
| 31 | Midnight Flower |
| 32 | (It’s the Way) Nature Planned It |
| 33 | MacArthur Park |
| 34 | What is a Man |
| 35 | Don’t Let Him Take Your Love From Me |
| 36 | Catfish |
| 37 | I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Mind |
| 38 | Seven Lonely Nights |
| 39 | In These Changing Times |
| 40 | Loco in Acapulco |
| 41 | Baby, I Need Your Loving |
| 42 | Do What You Gotta Do |
| 43 | We Gotta All Stick Together |
| 44 | Don’t Walk Away |
| 45 | Sexy Ways |
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Mary Esther Wells (May 13, 1943 – July 26, 1992) was an American singer who helped to define the emerging sound of Motown in the early 1960s. Along with The Miracles, The Temptations, The Supremes, and the Four Tops, Wells was said to have been part of the charge in black music onto radio stations and record shelves of mainstream America, “bridging the color lines in music at the time.”
With a string of hit singles composed mainly by Smokey Robinson, including “Two Lovers” (1962), the Grammy-nominated “You Beat Me to the Punch” (1962) and her signature hit, “My Guy” (1964), she became recognized as “The Queen of Motown” until her departure from the company in 1964, at the height of her popularity. She was one of Motown’s first singing superstars. (Source: Wikipedia)
| 1 | My Guy |
| 2 | You Lost the Sweetest Boy |
| 3 | Once Upon a Time (with Marvin Gaye) |
| 4 | Gigolo |
| 5 | Laughing Boy |
| 6 | Two Lovers |
| 7 | The One Who Really Loves You |
| 8 | You Beat Me to the Punch |
| 9 | Dear Lover |
| 10 | I Don’t Want to Take a Chance |
| 11 | Use Your Head |
| 12 | Bye Bye Baby |
| 13 | Never, Never Leave Me |
| 14 | The Doctor |
| 15 | Your Old Standby |
| 16 | Ain’t It the Truth |
| 17 | Dig the Way I Feel |
| 18 | He’s a Lover |
| 19 | Me Without You |
| 20 | If You Can’t Give Her Love (Give Her Up) |
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