Four Tops Second Album
Four Tops Second Album | ||||
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Studio album by Four Tops | ||||
Released | November 13, 1965 (1965-11-13) | |||
Studio | Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit | |||
Length | 32:09 | |||
Label | Motown | |||
Producer | Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Smokey Robinson[1] | |||
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Singles from Four Tops Second Album | ||||
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Four Tops Second Album (also known as Second Album) is a 1965 R&B studio album by vocal quartet the Four Tops. The album, released on the Motown record label, reached No. 3 on Billboard's Black Albums chart and No. 20 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.[4] The album contains three hit singles. "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" reached No. 1 on both the Black Singles and Pop Singles charts, while "It's the Same Old Song" reached No. 2 and No. 5 respectively, and "Something About You" reached No. 9 and No. 19.[5] In 1990, Motown bundled the Four Tops' first two albums together in a release titled Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album.[6]
Track listing
All songs composed by Holland–Dozier–Holland (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland), unless otherwise noted.
- Side 1
- "I Can't Help Myself" – 2:45
- "Love Feels Like Fire" – 2:08
- "Is There Anything That I Can Do" (Warren "Pete" Moore, Smokey Robinson, Ronald White) – 3:07
- "Something About You" – 2:44
- "It's the Same Old Song" – 2:51
- "Helpless" – 2:46
- Side 2
- "Just as Long as You Need Me" – 3:12
- "Darling, I Hum Our Song" – 2:44
- "I Like Everything About You" – 2:21
- "Since You've Been Gone" – 2:33
- "Stay in My Lonely Arms" – 2:21
- "I'm Grateful" (Eddie Holland, Cleo Drake, George Fowler) – 2:37
Personnel
Performance
- Levi Stubbs – lead baritone vocals (except tracks 2 and 11); backing vocals (tracks 2 and 11)
- Abdul Fakir – first tenor backing vocals
- Renaldo Benson – bass backing vocals
- Lawrence Payton – second tenor backing vocals (except tracks 2 and 11); lead vocals (tracks 2 and 11); keyboard
- The Andantes – backing vocals
- Instrumentation by the Funk Brothers
References
- ^ Don't forget the motor city: Listing of song titles beginning with I
- ^ AllMusic review
- ^ Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (26 March 1966). "Four Tops: Second Album" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 263. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 22 August 2022.
- ^ The Four Tops Billboard Albums at AllMusic
- ^ The Four Tops Billboard Singles at AllMusic
- ^ Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album at AllMusic
External links
- Four Tops' Second Album at MTV, with lyrics
- Four Tops - Second Album (1965) album review by Ron Wynn, credits & releases on AllMusic
- Four Tops - Second Album (1965) album releases & credits on Discogs
- Four Tops - Second Album (1965) album to be listened as stream on Spotify
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