A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: THE 4 TOPS, 1964!


RELEASED BY MOTOWN RECORDS, January 1965, the group’s self-titled Four Tops studio album would be their very first for the Motown label. Produced by Holland-Dozier-Holland, six of the album’s 11 tracks were written by the Motown song-writing trio. Two of the H-D-H songs would become singles. The first, Baby I Need Your Loving(Pop; #11) would become their first million-selling single, released, July 1964. Their follow-up, Without The One You Love (Life’s Not Worth While) (Pop; #43) was released by Motown in the fall of 1964. The Four Tops‘ third single was written by Mickey Stevenson and Ivy Joe Hunter. Ask The Lonely (Pop; #24) was released in February 1965. The album peaked at #63 on the Billboard Top 200 LP chart, 1965.

THE FOUR TOPS circa 1964

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