Four Tops Second Album Explained

Four Tops Second Album
Type:	studio
Artist:	Four Tops
Cover:	Secondalbum.jpg
Studio:	Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit
Length:	32:09
Label:	Motown
Producer:	Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Smokey Robinson^[1]
Prev Title:	Four Tops
Prev Year:	1964
Next Title:	On Top
Next Year:	1966

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. 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. In 1990, Motown bundled the Four Tops' first two albums together in a release titled Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album.

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

• 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

External links

• 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

Notes and References

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