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Four Tops Second Album

Four Tops Second Album
Studio album by
Four Tops
ReleasedNovember 13, 1965 (1965-11-13)
StudioHitsville U.S.A., Detroit
Length32:09
LabelMotown
ProducerBrian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Smokey Robinson[1]
Four Tops chronology
Four Tops
(1964) 		Four Tops Second Album
(1965) 		On Top
(1966)
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 ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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

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

Performance

References

  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
Quelle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Tops_Second_Album