On Top [Limited Edition] [Remastered]

by The Four Tops

Overview

Beginning with On Top, Motown started constructing their Four Tops LPs from singles and a few similar-sounding album tracks, along with plenty of crossover material (usually attempts at MOR covers or light supper-club standards). The first four songs display the Four Tops at the peak of their power; opening with the swinging "I Got a Feeling," the quartet paused only briefly with a ballad ("Brenda") before delivering their two biggest and best hits of the time, "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" and "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)." Hoping older listeners might be lured in by crossover versions of a few current hits, Motown devoted the last half to some seriously misguided covers: "Matchmaker," "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars," "In the Still of the Night," and a rather stiff version of the Beatles' "Michelle." Though it reached the pop Top 40, doubtless most teenagers never even bothered flipping this one over, and the crossover material hasn't aged well. [A limited-edition CD remaster was released in 2014.] ~ John Bush

Product Details

Release Date:	10/21/2014
Label:	Culture Factory
UPC:	3700477820992
Rank:	92630

Tracks

1. I Got A Feeling
2. Brenda
3. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
4. Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)
5. Until You Love Someone
6. There's No One Left
7. Matchmaker, Matchmaker
8. Michelle
9. In The Still Of The Night
10. Bluesette
11. Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars
12. Then

Album Credits

Performance Credits

The Four Tops   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Ivy Jo Hunter   Composer
Lamont Dozier   Composer
Cole Porter   Composer
Toots Thielemans   Composer
Eddie Holland   Composer
John Lennon   Composer
Robert Rogers   Composer
Warren "Pete" Moore   Composer
Paul McCartney   Composer
Norman Gimble   Composer
James Dean   Composer
Norman Gimbel   Composer
Jerry Bock   Composer
Smokey Robinson   Composer
Gene Lees   Composer
Antonio Carlos Jobim   Composer
Sheldon Harnick   Composer
Stevie Wonder   Composer
Brian Holland   Composer