Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Baby I Need Your Loving
2. Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worthwhile)
3. Sad Souvenirs
4. Ask the Lonely
5. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
6. Helpless
7. It's the Same Old Song
8. Something About You
9. Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)
10. Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
11. Then
12. Reach Out (I'll Be There)
13. Standing in the Shadows of Love
14. I Got a Feeling
15. Bernadette
16. 7-Rooms of Gloom
17. I'll Turn to Stone
18. MacArthur Park
19. Climb Ev'ry Mountain [Live]
20. Everybody's Talkin'
21. For Once in My Life
22. Place in the Sun
23. Reflections

Disc 2:

1. You Keep Running Away
2. Walk Away Renee
3. If I Were a Carpenter
4. Yesterday's Dreams
5. I'm in a Different World
6. Can't Seem to Get You out of My Mind
7. Don't Let Him Take Your Love From Me
8. It's All in the Game
9. Still Water (Love)
10. River Deep, Mountain High - The Four Tops, The Supremes
11. Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)
12. In These Changing Times
13. You Gotta Have Love in Your Heart - The Four Tops, The Supremes
14. I Can't Quit Your Love
15. (It's the Way) Nature Planned It
16. Medley: Hey Man/We Got to Get You a Woman
17. I Just Can't Walk Away
18. Don't Tell Me That It's Over

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #167614 in Music
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 2

Album Description
Digitally remastered UK reissue of 1974 compilation that's out-of-print in the U.S. 41 tracks including all their U.S. Top 40 hits, 'Baby I Need Your Loving', 'Ask the Lonely', 'I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)', 'It's the Same Old Song', 'Som

Amazon.com
On soul symphonies like "Standing in the Shadows of Love" and "Reach Out, I'll Be There," Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs applied his rough singing to some of the finest soul ever created. Anthology features 39 riveting Motown cuts, 18 of them hits, though none can compare to their masterpiece among masterpieces, "Bernadette." Stubbs begins each verse trying to reason with the woman who's leaving him, but by verse's end he's inevitably blabbering, demanding more than anyone could ever deliver. He yells out her name again and again, and when the music suddenly stops, you'll swear you hear the echo of her steps walking away. --David Cantwell

Customer Reviews

Classic, just like the Tops themselves
A wonderful anthology. The Four Tops probably still have the record (pardon the pun) for longevity. Well after we no longer knew the name of the then-current lead singer of the Temptations or who was with the Supremes, the Four Tops were into their fourth decade TOGETHER.

They have been great for so long. Their harmonies are wonderful, with the ever-present Levi Stubbs way way out in front. They sang with power and with passion, and were a must for those basement parties back in the day.

Their hits are just about all here, from "Baby I Need Your Lovin'" , and "Ask The Lonely", "Reach Out" "Seven Rooms of Gloom" and "Bernadette". Also some more obscure (comparatively speaking) such as "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" (my personal favorite) and "Its All In The Game". Happily, they are the original recordings (like all of the Mowtown Anthology collection).

For the most part, if it got much play in the '60's or '70's by the Four Tops, it is here. THE place to find the songs you remember and love.

Serviceable, but not for the completist
The Four Tops. The name itself conjures images of dancing go-go girls and the plaintive cries of four men in sharp suits reduced to begging and pleading before love passes by. This compilation reproduces the best of the Tops very nicely, from the soft soul of "Baby I Need Your Loving" to the forceful love anthem "Reach Out I'll Be There".

The focus is always on the front man, and the Tops had (and have) a dynamic one in Levi Stubbs. The power and range of his voice does not show as strongly through the early tracks, when producers forced him into that cookie-cutter tenor key owned by so many in the Motown stable, which was just a shade too high for Stubbs to be completely comfortable. Check out the range he shows on "Bernadette" and "Standing In The Shadows Of Love" and you'll feel the earth moving as Levi's power surges forth.

Now if we can just get Motown to give them the set they deserve; one along the lines of the E! mperors of Soul set their contemporaries, the Temptations, were given....

One Great C.D.
I have really enjoyed this cd and well worth the price. My favorite is "If I were a carpenter" You just cannot beat oldie rock & roll.
Beck- florence, alabama