Four Tops – THE FOUR TOPS***

Baby I Need Your Loving/Without The One You Love/Where Did You Go/Ask The Lonely/Your Love Is Amazing/ Sad Souvenirs/Don’t Turn Away/Tea House In China Town/Left With A Broken Heart/Love Has Gone/Call On Me

The debut album from Motown's most consistent male vocal group The Four Tops. Contains six Holland-Dozier-Holland songs including the US No. 11 hit single Baby I Need Your Loving. (US:63)

"The Four Tops album allows you to experience a few songs that were hits for the group and others that are like a breath of fresh air for anyone lucky enough to listen. Every song is a gem in its own right."

"For those that weren't privileged to live through the Motown era, when you heard these songs for the first time, they lit up your soul." "This is real music by super talented men. Holland, Dozier and Holland were the writers and arrangers for a ton of Motown music back in the 60s, a great era when talent was really talent."

"Motown hadn't quite figured out how to handle The Tops' distinctive vocal sound at this point. This album was rushed out to cash in on the success of the gritty Baby I Need Your Loving, and aside from that single, and Ask The Lonely, the tracks are not among the group's best work. Simple, unmemorable tunes, basic hastily recorded arrangements, a distinct lack of presence. Despite their years of work before joining Motown, The Tops were not yet ready to take over the world."

"You'd be hard pressed to find two better singles on a debut album than Ask The Lonely and Baby I Need Your Loving. These were the cornerstones of The Four Tops' first LP, and besides netting them one top ten and top twenty pop single each, it established Levi Stubbs' resounding voice as another unforgettable one at Motown. Even the tunes that didn't do so well, were marvellously sung. It was a debut to remember."

"My favourite song on this whole LP is Where Did You Go. For the life of me I wonder why it was not released as a single."