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R&B / Soul
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| Descriptive "tags": |
soul, motown, oldies, rnb
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| Decades Active: |
1960s,
1970s,
1980s,
1990s,
2000s
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Biography
Levi Stubbs (6 June 1936, Detroit, Michigan, USA), Renaldo "Obie" Benson (b. 14 June 1936, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 1 July 2005, Detroit, Michigan, USA), Lawrence Payton (b. 2 June 1938, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 10 June 1997, USA) and Abdul "Duke" Fakir (b. 26 December 1935, Detroit, Michigan, USA), first sang together at a party in Detroit in 1954. Calling themselves the Four Aims, they began performing at supper clubs in the city, with a repertoire of jazz songs and standards. In 1956, they changed their name to the Four Tops to avoid confusion with the popular singing group the Ames Brothers, and recorded a one-off single ("Kiss Me Baby") for the R&B label Chess Records. Further unsuccessful recordings appeared on Red Top, Columbia Records and Riverside between 1958 and 1962, before the Four Tops were signed to the Motown Records jazz subsidiary Workshop, in 1963. Motown boss Berry Gordy elected not to release their initial album, Breaking Through, in...
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