Essential Collection: Four Tops

by The Four Tops

Overview

An all but impossible to beat single disc greatest hits set, this collection covers just about every crucial stage of the Tops' career. During Motown's 1960s glory days, the Tops were abetted by the brilliant writing/producing team of Holland-Dozier-Holland. The timeless soul classics that sprung forth, including "Baby I Need Your Loving" and the epic "Reach Out I'll Be There," are indeed essential. The group's post-HDH career is surprisingly rewarding, from soulful covers of Tim Hardin and the Left Banke, to their early 1970s successes at ABC/Paramount ("Ain't No Woman Like the One I Got"), and their disco era smash ("When She Was My Girl"). If you only have room for one Four Tops album, this is the one to grab.

Product Details

Release Date:	11/07/2000
Label:	Hip-O
UPC:	0731456082424
Rank:	31712

Tracks

1. Baby I Need Your Loving
2. Ask the Lonely
3. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
4. It's the Same Old Song
5. Reach Out (I'll Be There)
6. Standing in the Shadows of Love
7. Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)
8. Bernadette
9. Walk Away Renee
10. You Keep Running Away
11. If I Were a Carpenter
12. Still Water (Love)
13. It's All in the Game
14. (It's the Way) Nature Planned It
15. Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)
16. Keeper of the Castle
17. Are You Man Enough
18. Sweet Understanding Love
19. One Chain (Don't Make No Prison)
20. Midnight Flower
21. Catfish
22. When She Was My Girl
23. I Just Can't Walk Away
24. I Believe in You and Me

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Four Tops   Primary Artist
Abdul Fakir   Vocal Harmony,Vocals (Rhythm)
Levi Stubbs   Vocals
The Andantes   Vocal Harmony
Lawrence Payton   Vocal Harmony,Vocals (Rhythm)
Renaldo Benson   Vocal Harmony,Vocals (Rhythm)

Technical Credits

Gil Askey   Arranger
Holland-Dozier-Holland   Composer
Jerry Long   Arranger
Michael Brown   Composer
Robin Schwartz   Licensing
Val Benson   Composer
Don Hockett   Arranger,String Arrangements
Mikki Farrow   Composer
Frank Wilson   Composer,Producer
Ilene Weingard   Art Direction
Tony Sansone   Composer
John Barnes   Rhythm Arrangements,Synthesizer Programming
Charles G. Dawes   Composer
Richard Knight   Composer
Tony Sansome   Composer
Laurence B. Gottlieb   Composer
Fred Bridges   Composer
Erick Labson   Mastering
David Wolfert   Composer,Producer
Jeremy Lubbock   String Arrangements
Sandy Linzer   Composer
Tim Hardin   Composer
Brian Holland   Composer,Producer
Brian Potter   Composer,Producer
Dana Smart   Producer
Marc Blatte   Composer
Pam Sawyer   Composer
Steve Barri   Producer
Bob Calilli   Composer
Ivy Jo Hunter   Composer,Producer
Jimmy Roach   Arranger
Lamont Dozier   Composer,Producer
Larry Gottlieb   Composer
Lawrence Payton   Composer,Producer,Vocal Arrangement
Eddie Holland   Composer,Producer
Richard Beasley   Composer
McKinley Jackson   Composer
Reginald Dozier   Composer
Renaldo Benson   Composer
Michele Horie   Project Coordinator
William "Mickey" Stevenson   Composer,Producer
William Robinson   Composer
Carl Sigman   Composer
Dennis Lambert   Arranger,Composer,Producer,String Arrangements
Smokey Robinson   Composer
Vartan   Art Direction
Michael Omartian   Arranger
Steven Ivory   Liner Notes