ALBUM: The Four Tops
For me with the Four Tops it starts with ‘Reach Out I’ll Be There,’ which is one of the top soul/rock songs of the 1960’s, and likely beyond. On top of that they dish out such timeless Motown winners as ‘Standing in the Shadows of Love.’
They had many many more charting songs which all but ignored the era’s trend toward the psychedelic sound in favor of straight rock ‘n soul.
The vocal group, spanning four decades, worked with the successful writing team Holland-Dozier-Holland in the early part of their career.
Singer Billy Bragg wrote a song about the baritone lead singer called Levi Stubb’s Tears.
Fraternities and sororities across the nation applaud the Four Tops for providing their soundtrack to the big parties that comes with higher education (at least these were the songs popular at frats and sororities in my college-going day): Songs like “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch); ‘It’s the Same Old Song;’ and ‘Baby I Need Your Loving.” Be careful readers. Just reading the song titles out load will load that song on a loop in your brains.
Baby I need your loving, got …. to have all your loving .
Iconic group for sure.