Four Tops: Ask The Lonely

Four Tops: Ask the Lonely (Remix Tribute)

“…Maybe the most devastating of all was “Ask the Lonely,” in which, as the notes surge higher and higher, Stubbs sings about “a story of sadness, a story too hard to believe.” This was as heavy as Motown got then, but heavy didn’t mean bogged down; the Tops were probably the only act of their time who could get the kids on “American Bandstand” dancing to a song called “Seven Rooms of Gloom.” New York Times

Julkaisupaikka  on joulukuu 28, 2008 at 3:53 ip Kommentoi
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Levi Stubbs, lead singer of Motown group the Four Tops, Dies

Four Tops: Reach Out I’ll Be There

Levi Stubbs died on Friday, October 17. He was 72.

He was a cousin of the soul singer Jackie Wilson.

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Julkaisupaikka  on lokakuu 19, 2008 at 5:29 ip Kommentoi
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