Four Tops' Second Album

Four Tops' Second Album
Studio album by The Four Tops
Released	November 13, 1965 (1965-11-13)
Genre	Rhythm & blues
Label	Motown
Producer	Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier
The Four Tops chronology
Four Tops (1964) Four Tops' Second Album (1965) On Top (1966)
Singles from Four Tops' Second Album
"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" Released: April 23, 1965 "It's the Same Old Song" Released: July 9, 1965 "Something About You" Released: 1965

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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 "Pop Albums".^[2] The album contained 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" was No. 2 and No. 5 respectively, and "Something About You" reached No. 9 and No. 19.^[3] In 1990, Motown bundled the Four Tops first two albums together in a release entitled Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album.^[4]

Track listing

Except where otherwise noted, all songs composed by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland.

1. "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" – 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
7. "Just as Long as You Need Me" – 3:12
8. "Darling, I Hum Our Song" – 2:44
9. "I Like Everything About You" – 2:21
10. "Since You've Been Gone" – 2:33
11. "Stay in My Lonely Arms" – 2:21
12. "I'm Grateful" (Brian Holland, Cleo Drake, George Fowler^[5]) – 2:37

Personnel

Performance

• Renaldo Benson – vocals
• Abdul Fakir – vocals
• Lawrence Payton – keyboard, vocals
• Levi Stubbs – lead vocals
• The Andantes - background vocals
• Instrumentation by the Funk Brothers

References

External links

• Four Tops' Second Album at MTV, with lyrics

Four Tops Abdul "Duke" Fakir Ronnie McNeir Roquel Payton Harold Bonhart Levi Stubbs Renaldo "Obie" Benson Lawrence Payton Theo Peoples Studio albums Four Tops (1964) Four Tops' Second Album (1965) On Top (1966) Reach Out (1967) Yesterday's Dreams (1968) The Four Tops Now! (1969) Soul Spin (1969) Still Waters Run Deep (1970) Changing Times (1970) Nature Planned It (1972) Keeper of the Castle (1972) Main Street People (1973) Meeting the Minds (1974) Night Lights Harmony (1975) Catfish (1976) The Show Must Go On (1977) At The Top (1978) Tonight! (1981) One More Mountain (1982) Back Where I Belong (1983) Magic (1985) Hot Nights (1986) Indestructible (1988) Albums with The Supremes The Magnificent 7 (1970) The Return of the Magnificent Seven (1971) Dynamite (1971) Other albums The Ultimate Collection (1997) Singles (US/UK Top Ten singles) "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" (1965) "It's the Same Old Song" (1965) "Reach Out I'll Be There" (1966) "Standing in the Shadows of Love" (1966) "Bernadette" (1967) "Walk Away Renée" (1967) "If I Were a Carpenter" (1968) "It's All in the Game" (1970) "Still Water (Love)" (1970) "A Simple Game" (1971) "Keeper of the Castle" (1972) "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)" (1973) "When She Was My Girl" (1981) "Loco in Acapulco" (1988) Related topics Discography Members Holland–Dozier–Holland The Supremes Book:Four Tops