Four Tops Second Album

1965 studio album by Four Tops

Four Tops Second Album

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]
Four Tops chronology
| Four Tops
(1964)  | Four Tops Second Album
(1965)  | On Top
(1966)

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Singles from  Four Tops Second Album

1. "I Can't Help Myself"
Released: April 23, 1965
2. "It's the Same Old Song"
Released: July 9, 1965
3. "Something About You"
Released: October 21, 1965

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
Record Mirror| [3]

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

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All songs written by Holland–Dozier–Holland (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland), unless otherwise noted.

Side 1

1. "I Can't Help Myself" – 2:45
2. "Love Feels Like Fire" – 2:08
3. "Is There Anything That I Can Do" (Warren "Pete" Moore, Smokey Robinson, Ronald White) – 3:07
4. "Something About You" – 2:44
5. "It's the Same Old Song" – 2:51
6. "Helpless" – 2:46

Side 2

1. "Just as Long as You Need Me" – 3:12
2. "Darling, I Hum Our Song" – 2:44
3. "I Like Everything About You" – 2:21
4. "Since You've Been Gone" – 2:33
5. "Stay in My Lonely Arms" – 2:21
6. "I'm Grateful" (Eddie Holland, Cleo Drake, George Fowler) – 2:37

## Personnel

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### Performance

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* 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

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1. ^ Don't forget the motor city: Listing of song titles beginning with I
2. ^ AllMusic review
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ The Four Tops Billboard Albums at AllMusic
5. ^ The Four Tops Billboard Singles at AllMusic
6. ^ Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album at AllMusic

## External links

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* 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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Four Tops

* Ronnie McNeir
* Lawrence "Roquel" Payton, Jr.
* Alexander Morris
* Michael Brock

* Harold Bonhart
* Levi Stubbs
* Renaldo "Obie" Benson
* Lawrence Payton
* Theo Peoples
* Abdul "Duke" Fakir

Studio albums|

* Four Tops
* Four Tops Second Album
* On Top
* On Broadway
* Reach Out
* Yesterday's Dreams
* Four Tops Now!
* Soul Spin
* Still Waters Run Deep
* Changing Times
* Keeper of the Castle
* Main Street People
* Meeting of the Minds
* Night Lights Harmony
* Catfish
* The Show Must Go On
* At the Top
* Tonight!
* One More Mountain
* Back Where I Belong
* Magic
* Indestructible
* Christmas Here with You

Albums with
The Supremes|

* The Magnificent 7
* The Return of the Magnificent Seven
* Dynamite

Compilations
and live albums|

* Four Tops Live!
* The Four Tops Greatest Hits
* Live & in Concert
* The Ultimate Collection

Singles|

* "Baby I Need Your Loving"
* "Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)"
* "Ask the Lonely"
* "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"
* "It's the Same Old Song"
* "Something About You"
* "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)"
* "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever"
* "Reach Out I'll Be There"
* "Standing in the Shadows of Love"
* "Bernadette"
* "7 Rooms of Gloom"
* "Walk Away Renée"
* "If I Were a Carpenter"
* "Yesterday's Dreams"
* "I'm in a Different World"
* "It's All in the Game"
* "Still Water (Love)"
* "A Simple Game"
* "Keeper of the Castle"
* "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)"
* "When She Was My Girl"
* "Loco in Acapulco"

Related topics|

* Discography
* The Andantes
* Holland–Dozier–Holland
* The Supremes

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