I'm a 60s and 70s kid, grew up listening to these guys, their music will outlive us all, RIP Duke, you are now reunited with your Four Tops brothers, thanks for the memories amd the music.
Their songs take me back to another era. My childhood. Loved them then and I love them now. Recently painted my kitchen and for 2 days straight, listen to them on Amazon music. Never enjoyed painting so much!! Thank you Four Tops for all the memories.
RIP to The Four Tops 🙏 Although I was born in the 90s I grew up with this music because of my dad. Their songs bring so many good memories. The best was singing along with all my high school friends to "I Can't Help Myself" at my birthday party. Your music will live on for generations to come!
Musicians play instruments 🎷🎸🎹🎺🥁 --- to me as an entity, they were just great singers, who through thick and thin --- stayed TOGETHER in good times, bad times, in sickness and in health --- as one tight group of "Brothas and Singers!" And for that, they will ALWAYS be the four (4) man group that others Quads should strive to be! #RESPECT #facts
One of my dad’s favorite artists back in the days, I grew up listening to The Four Tops music. Good ol days. Watching this brings back memories of my dad too. I love their music, then and now. Thank you for the music. My dad is sure to be listening to your music up there. RIP 🙏🏼
I love The Four Tops to this day....Okay, you are making me want to put on the cds of Motown....."Baby I Need Your Loving". Reminding me of the days of talent shows hearing their songs on the stage....Hot dog!!!!!!
THIS IS WHAT ORIGINAL BROTHERLY LOVE IS AT ITS BEST. AS LEVI SING IN ONE OF HIS SONGS, “I’LL NEVER STOP CHANGE, I’LL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU…OBIE-DUKE-AND LAWRENCE FOR ETERNITY AND FOREVER! BUT THEY GAVE USE SOMETHING TO REMEMBER THEM BY…..”LOVE MUSIC”✊🏾❤
A fantastic clip of the Four Tops. The announcer should have done his homework. The Four Tops did not stop having hits in the 1970’s. They had a huge hit in 1981, When She Was My Girl. The late 1980’s their last Billboard hit record, Indestructible, reached #35.
They were a great group- happy memories from 70’s. I am delighted they were so successful as they deserved every bit of it! Greetings from Ireland! RIP ALL!
I teared up when I learned Duke had passed away. I was a teen in the 60's and these guys were the soundtrack of my life. I last saw the Tops at an outdoor concert of all R&B artists in Cleveland 25 years ago. Larry Payton had died and replaced by Theo Peoples who was great. They performed every single song they had recorded. They were determined to give us all out money's worth. Consummate professionals.
Wow! Great story because all I ever heard was that they all stayed together! Never knew they replaced a member! 😰 🤷🏽♂️ Thanks OG for the education because I NEVER knew nor heard about that, Pops! #muchRESPECT #oldguysrule
I saw them for the last time at the Mountain winery in California and the last original of the four tops Duke was tired and I could see he didn’t have too much longer to go and now he’s gone and we will all miss him dearly and now there’s only one left for The Temptations also. They both were the best ever that I grew up with, and everybody else is wonderful, but they will never be the originals ever again. God bless them all.
My mother would mostly listen to the Oldies whenever we'd drive anywhere, and heard the Four Tops among others quite often. Always a good listen. Can't go wrong with them.
Really loved this old piece on my favorite group of all time. When the audience started singing I lost it. They are all gone but will never be forgotten.
The Four Tops were so great. Motown music was the best, ever, and they were about the greatest of the Motown groups. Thankfully, Levi Stubbs stayed loyal to the Four Tops and Detroit, rather than going solo, like Diana Ross. Thank you, Tops… you’re definitely Tops!
My husband got me into Motown when I met him in 1977 he used too play don’t walkaway Renee on a juke box we must of drove people mad god bless the 4 tops play for the angels ❤❤❤❤
In September of 1964, I started first grade and recalled two songs that were constantly being played on the radio. One was R&B, and the other was Rock n' Roll. The R&B was "Baby, I Need Your Lovin" by the Four Tops, and the other was by the Rolling Stones (the bad boys of British rock), "It's All Over." Now, of course, at the age of 6, I had no idea who the two groups were, but I enjoyed those two hits, and every time I hear these two songs, it takes me back to that time particular of my youth. The last member of the Four Tops has recently passed.....there will NEVER EVER be another group like them..R.I.P
Warm Summer nights, Detroit iron, first time love and the Four Tops on the radio playing low. Hearing them now I can smell the Summer air and feel the rush of holding her in my arms for the first time. Timeless!
WOW , the Valley Forge Music Fair !!! that place brings back so many sweet memories for me and I’m in my 60s now. I remember seeing Bobby Womack, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks and the Spinners !!! REALLY GREAT MUSIC !!! RIP TO ALL !!! 🙏🏽
The Dells, and The Whispers were another group that stayed together til members starting passing away too. However, the brotherhood of the 4 Tops could not be matched. They truly loved each other til the end of their lives. It’s a great story that’ll hopefully be told in a biopic someday.
I grew up in the 60’s and Motown records was a staple in my family whenever any artist made a hit record we would go to the record shop to buy it. My aunt and uncle had weekend parties in their basement with a full bar and bathroom and dance floor and basement entry door and they would have invited guests they danced and play craps on the pool table from Friday night to Sunday morning. Motown and Stax music artist in the 60’s 70’s were so talented.
I was fortunate to see them with at a show along with the Fifth Dimension. Audience members kept asking why we were there as we were in our 30’s and everyone else were in their 60’s. I told a client I had seen them and he told me he had seen them perform at a trade show along with the Temptations! Mind blown!
I'm 61 --- and even I was slightly too young for The Four Tops during their Hey Day! I vaguely remember hearing Bernadette, Baby I Need Your Lovin' and Walk Away Renee maybe when I was still in diapers! But remember, I was only 4 when their early stuff was released! But when I heard "Reach Out, I'll Be There" from the soundtrack of the movie 'Cooley High' . . . then I knew --- THIS WAS REAL BLACK 'FOK MUSIC! Then in the 90s even White 'Fok fell in 🤎 too! And like them, I have gathered so much more respect through every passing year! But as I was growing up, we considered these dudes our parents music! We had The Jackson 5, Ohio Players, et al. But these boys from The Motor City were the Godfathers! #muchRespect #fromtodaysoldguy
Yo PJ --- then you have a better reference point than I. But dang . . . you're Old!👴🏼🤣 Best wishes on getting to 68 because most folk NEVER get to that milestone, Pops! 🎉 #each1teach1 #respect
@@NoNo-ks4gg lol! Thank you so much. I am really feeling it being old. Enjoy your youth while you can because like I’ve been told it just gets worse and worse and worse. Good luck.
I will be shocked if I make it to 70 because I have lived a very hard life not that it was always fun, but it was difficult and I just can’t have regrets because that’s what I did at the time. I wish you the best.
C'mon PJ --- you got me by about 5+ years, pops! 👴🏽 And remember this . . . a wise old man once told me when I was in my 20's! "Old Age Ain't For Sissies!" 🤷🏽♂ And I learned from watching a fabulous movie that you better: "Get Busy Living --- or Get Busy Dying!" #truerwordshaveneverbeenspoken #believethatpops #✌🏽
I honestly never knew that Levi Stubbs voiced Mother Brain on the Nintendo-themed Saturday morning cartoon titled “Captain N - The Game Master”. What a talent! RIP Levi Stubbs, Abdul “Duke” Fakir, Renaldo “Obie” Benson and Lawrence Payton.
A true band of brothers. Thanks for the music guys. RIP Duke Fakir 💖🌄🌈🕊️🌹
Amen to that🙏
The world has lost the last remaining member of the greatest group ever to bless the world with their music !! R.I.P. gentlemen. Back together again.
Amen 🙏
This level of talent will never be seen again
You got that right 👏
Their music will never get old it always sounds great
I'm a 60s and 70s kid, grew up listening to these guys, their music will outlive us all, RIP Duke, you are now reunited with your Four Tops brothers, thanks for the memories amd the music.
Absolutely Amen 🙏
Levi Stubbs!!! The sound of my youth! Still listening to them
Mine as well!
The soundtrack of my youth I Cherish those Days ❤️
I grew up listening to these guys. In my day the ‘Tops’ and the ‘Temps’ were IT. They are golden.
Fun Fact Obie Benson of The Tops helped Marvin Gaye ✍️ his biggest hit What's Goin on
Well Said 👏
@@TracyPelton-lm5hp Thanks 👍
Thank you Barry Gordy for all the memories not just with the four tops but all of them
A treasured group that meant so much to so many people of all generations and backgrounds. Condolences to the families.
Amen and Amen 🙏
So fortunate I was able to see the originals back in the 80s!
These guys still sending a tingle down my spine no matter how often I hear their music... RIP The Tops together again,, now forever...✊✊✊✊
Same Here 👏
I'm glad i found this. Love love it .. music brings everyone together.. i hope they are in the rock n roll hall of fame....
They were inducted in the Rock and Roll hall of fame back in 1990.
@@NathanAHoganThat’s Great! Thanks for info 👏
@@TracyPelton-lm5hp You're welcome.
I loved the Four Tops. Levi Stubbs had a beautiful voice. I loved seeing them compete with the Temptations. ❤
Me too👏
It was amazing that they stayed together for so long
Their songs take me back to another era. My childhood. Loved them then and I love them now. Recently painted my kitchen and for 2 days straight, listen to them on Amazon music. Never enjoyed painting so much!! Thank you Four Tops for all the memories.
RIP to The Four Tops 🙏 Although I was born in the 90s I grew up with this music because of my dad. Their songs bring so many good memories. The best was singing along with all my high school friends to "I Can't Help Myself" at my birthday party. Your music will live on for generations to come!
Their music is for all time. One of the greatest groups ever! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
They sound and look really good!!
They were true musicians. Rest in peace Four Tops.
Thanks for your great music. 😊
Musicians play instruments 🎷🎸🎹🎺🥁 --- to me as an entity, they were just great singers, who through thick and thin --- stayed TOGETHER in good times, bad times, in sickness and in health --- as one tight group of "Brothas and Singers!" And for that, they will ALWAYS be the four (4) man group that others Quads should strive to be!
#RESPECT
#facts
Had a rush of sweet memories when I heard these songs.
Levi Stubbs had chances for a solo career, but he stayed with the Tops. A class act all the way.
He was the best!!!!!!
And they stuck by him when he had his stroke. True class.
You got that right! Loyalty at its Best ❤️💪🏼💯
They put on a great show, sugar pie, honey bunch.🤗
One of my dad’s favorite artists back in the days, I grew up listening to The Four Tops music. Good ol days. Watching this brings back memories of my dad too. I love their music, then and now. Thank you for the music. My dad is sure to be listening to your music up there. RIP 🙏🏼
I love The Four Tops to this day....Okay, you are making me want to put on the cds of Motown....."Baby I Need Your Loving". Reminding me of the days of talent shows hearing their songs on the stage....Hot dog!!!!!!
Absolutely phenomenal. Those concerts need a dvd release asap.
Huge Facts 👏
REST IN PEACE TO ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE 4 TOPS!!!
Amen 🙏
They were awesome and will always be remembered!
Music Legends united in Heaven. Thank you for everything. 🕊️🙏🏾
I grew up listening to them rest brothers your music will last forever 🎵💐🙏🏽❤️😊
Such great memories! 😎
I miss all of the Four Tops❤❤❤❤
THIS IS WHAT ORIGINAL BROTHERLY LOVE IS AT ITS BEST. AS LEVI SING IN ONE OF HIS SONGS, “I’LL NEVER STOP CHANGE, I’LL NEVER STOP LOVING YOU…OBIE-DUKE-AND LAWRENCE FOR ETERNITY AND FOREVER! BUT THEY GAVE USE SOMETHING TO REMEMBER THEM BY…..”LOVE MUSIC”✊🏾❤
RIP Duke. RIP brothers❤
Amen 🙏
❤Rest in Peace to all of them. So Talented.❤
This really touched me. Thank you guys for sharing 🙏🏾🙏🏾
Same Here ❤️
Can you just regularly post these old videos from your archives, you know, without someone having to die?
Class act
Legends. Yes more from the archives please. Amen.
So many hits!!! 💖✨
I didn't know that almost all of my favorite music came from one band. Wow. Oldies are still and always the goodies
A fantastic clip of the Four Tops. The announcer should have done his homework. The Four Tops did not stop having hits in the 1970’s. They had a huge hit in 1981, When She Was My Girl. The late 1980’s their last Billboard hit record, Indestructible, reached #35.
Their version of I Believe in You and Me (before Whitney) is absolutely perfect.
Big Facts 👏👏👏
@@jamjahgrannyYep👏
Awe the way they speak about Detroit ❤
All together in Heaven singing again
Amen 🙏
I was on stage with the Tops,Fairfield Halls Croydon 69/70 what memories
Rest in heavenly peace 🕊✨️ 🕊✨️🕊✨️🕊✨️ Legends
Amen 🙏
the temptations and the four tops were the absolute best in the motown scene my fave groups
They were a great group- happy memories from 70’s. I am delighted they were so successful as they deserved every bit of it! Greetings from Ireland! RIP ALL!
I love it because you CAN SING ALONG❤❤❤❤
The best of Motown. 66 years old and I still love them. I hope I get to see them if and when I get to Heaven. RIP 😢😂🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏
Me 67
Love their sound! My sister’s song, “Bernadette” Thank you for sharing this
Love them forever
Me too❤️
I teared up when I learned Duke had passed away. I was a teen in the 60's and these guys were the soundtrack of my life. I last saw the Tops at an outdoor concert of all R&B artists in Cleveland 25 years ago. Larry Payton had died and replaced by Theo Peoples who was great. They performed every single song they had recorded. They were determined to give us all out money's worth. Consummate professionals.
Wow!
Great story because all I ever heard was that they all stayed together!
Never knew they replaced a member! 😰 🤷🏽♂️
Thanks OG for the education because I NEVER knew nor heard about that, Pops!
#muchRESPECT
#oldguysrule
I saw them for the last time at the Mountain winery in California and the last original of the four tops Duke was tired and I could see he didn’t have too much longer to go and now he’s gone and we will all miss him dearly and now there’s only one left for The Temptations also. They both were the best ever that I grew up with, and everybody else is wonderful, but they will never be the originals ever again. God bless them all.
Thank you so much...❤❤❤❤❤❤
I still listen 2 the 4 tops. While I am doing my morning 🌄 power walks 🚶♀️💪. Great songs 🎵 ...
Love this and have always loved my Tops. 🎶💖🎶💖🎶💖🎶💖
Old School Cool at its best!
🍃🌹🍃🎼🍃🌹🍃
Right on 👏
My mother would mostly listen to the Oldies whenever we'd drive anywhere, and heard the Four Tops among others quite often. Always a good listen. Can't go wrong with them.
Love these guys, always have, always will. Good music is forever.
They are reunited in Heaven! 👼🏽👼🏽👼🏽👼🏽🎶❤️
They are singing for the angels.
I've always loved them. They bring back wonderful memories of when my husband and I were dating. Great times and wonderful memories.
A nice Tribute from Charles to maybe the Greatest group, that Blessed our lives. Pure Talent and Class. 🕊
Really loved this old piece on my favorite group of all time. When the audience started singing I lost it. They are all gone but will never be forgotten.
love motown
Absolutely ❤️
The Four Tops were so great. Motown music was the best, ever, and they were about the greatest of the Motown groups. Thankfully, Levi Stubbs stayed loyal to the Four Tops and Detroit, rather than going solo, like Diana Ross. Thank you, Tops… you’re definitely Tops!
My thoughts exactly 👏
My husband got me into Motown when I met him in 1977 he used too play don’t walkaway Renee on a juke box we must of drove people mad god bless the 4 tops play for the angels ❤❤❤❤
R.I.P.
Lawrence Payton,Sr.
(March 2nd,1938-
June 20th,1997)
(Second Tenor and Vocal Arranger)
(Group years:
1953-1997)
Renaldo “Obie” Benson
(June 14th,1936-
July 1st,2005)
(Bass)
(Group years:
1953-2005)
Levi Stubbs
(June 6th,1936-
October 17th,2008)
(Lead Singer;
Baritone)
(Group years:
1953-2000;
2004)
Abdul “Duke” Fakir
(December 26th,1935-
July 22nd,2024)
(First Tenor)
(Group years:
1953-2024)
Duke was still preforming?
@@sunshine3914
Yes.
He didn’t officially retire until
two days before his death.
Levi passed in 2008
@@jaylene.turner6524Wow I didn’t know that, thanks for info👏
I miss these guys. Still Waters and Bernadette are my favorite songs...
RIP Duke
In September of 1964, I started first grade and recalled two songs that were constantly being played on the radio. One was R&B, and the other was Rock n' Roll. The R&B was "Baby, I Need Your Lovin" by the Four Tops, and the other was by the Rolling Stones (the bad boys of British rock), "It's All Over." Now, of course, at the age of 6, I had no idea who the two groups were, but I enjoyed those two hits, and every time I hear these two songs, it takes me back to that time particular of my youth. The last member of the Four Tops has recently passed.....there will NEVER EVER be another group like them..R.I.P
Warm Summer nights, Detroit iron, first time love and the Four Tops on the radio playing low. Hearing them now I can smell the Summer air and feel the rush of holding her in my arms for the first time. Timeless!
Brings new meaning to the word “brothers” from cradle to grave.
WOW , the Valley Forge Music Fair !!! that place brings back so many sweet memories for me and I’m in my 60s now. I remember seeing Bobby Womack, David Ruffin, Eddie Kendricks and the Spinners !!! REALLY GREAT MUSIC !!!
RIP TO ALL !!! 🙏🏽
This is the only group, that kept their original members, until their deaths, and none of the members left Detroit, amazing group
The Dells, and The Whispers were another group that stayed together til members starting passing away too. However, the brotherhood of the 4 Tops could not be matched. They truly loved each other til the end of their lives. It’s a great story that’ll hopefully be told in a biopic someday.
@@ghanasoul 🩵🩵🩵 the dells and the whispers
They are all buried in Detroit as well.
Agree, the Whispers and the Dells were the other 2 groups that kept all of their original members and they too were a brotherhood.
Yes Absolutely Amazing Group! I Love Them Truly ❤️
Levi!❤❤❤
Yes Levi👏❤️👏❤️
I grew up in the 60’s and Motown records was a staple in my family whenever any artist made a hit record we would go to the record shop to buy it. My aunt and uncle had weekend parties in their basement with a full bar and bathroom and dance floor and basement entry door and they would have invited guests they danced and play craps on the pool table from Friday night to Sunday morning. Motown and Stax music artist in the 60’s 70’s were so talented.
Legendary iconic awesome! I was lucky enough to see them live twice.
They were absolutely fantastic. Sadly they are no longer with us but what a legacy they have left. God bless them 👏🏻❤️🇬🇧
I grew up with this incredible group ❤❤❤
I was fortunate to see them with at a show along with the Fifth Dimension. Audience members kept asking why we were there as we were in our 30’s and everyone else were in their 60’s.
I told a client I had seen them and he told me he had seen them perform at a trade show along with the Temptations! Mind blown!
Baby I need your loving- one of my many favorites from the Four Tops!!! 👏👏👏🎶🎼🎶🎼🎶👏👏
Rest in Peace to All 4 of The Original FOUR TOPS NOW.
LAWRENCE, OBIE, DUKE & LEVI.
DUKE was the last too Die they are performing before The Lord now.
Amen 🙏
Am in Love with the orchestra
I love their songs. I even still have their records!
I ❤️❤️❤️ their music❣️
Wonderful memories about the four tops!!😢❤
Love the 4 Tops!
So fabulous.
Just love these guys, just wish they were still with us.❤❤❤
I grew up with there music
I'm 61 --- and even I was slightly too young for The Four Tops during their Hey Day!
I vaguely remember hearing Bernadette, Baby I Need Your Lovin' and Walk Away Renee maybe when I was still in diapers!
But remember, I was only 4 when their early stuff was released!
But when I heard "Reach Out, I'll Be There" from the soundtrack of the movie 'Cooley High' . . . then I knew --- THIS WAS REAL BLACK 'FOK MUSIC!
Then in the 90s even White 'Fok fell in 🤎 too! And like them, I have gathered so much more respect through every passing year!
But as I was growing up, we considered these dudes our parents music!
We had The Jackson 5, Ohio Players, et al.
But these boys from The Motor City were the Godfathers!
#muchRespect
#fromtodaysoldguy
I am 67 and plus and I miss all of them dearly. I grew up with them and love them so much and the temptations.
Yo PJ --- then you have a better reference point than I. But dang . . . you're Old!👴🏼🤣
Best wishes on getting to 68 because most folk NEVER get to that milestone, Pops! 🎉
#each1teach1
#respect
@@NoNo-ks4gg lol! Thank you so much. I am really feeling it being old. Enjoy your youth while you can because like I’ve been told it just gets worse and worse and worse. Good luck.
I will be shocked if I make it to 70 because I have lived a very hard life not that it was always fun, but it was difficult and I just can’t have regrets because that’s what I did at the time. I wish you the best.
C'mon PJ --- you got me by about 5+ years, pops! 👴🏽
And remember this . . . a wise old man once told me when I was in my 20's!
"Old Age Ain't For Sissies!" 🤷🏽♂
And I learned from watching a fabulous movie that you better:
"Get Busy Living --- or Get Busy Dying!"
#truerwordshaveneverbeenspoken
#believethatpops
#✌🏽
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!
This was amazing CBS. Thank you. What a great group of men, artists. So many memories ❤
I honestly never knew that Levi Stubbs voiced Mother Brain on the Nintendo-themed Saturday morning cartoon titled “Captain N - The Game Master”. What a talent! RIP Levi Stubbs, Abdul “Duke” Fakir, Renaldo “Obie” Benson and Lawrence Payton.
What a brilliant group they can't be beaten
I remember how they gave the most fabulous performances
Lawrence 🌹Obie 🌹 Levi 🌹 Duke 🌹
Yes in that order RIP guys
Our growing up music thankyou all the Four Tops🎉 🎶😀 good music RIP ❤️❤️❤️❤️ ☁️☁️☁️☁️🕺🕺🕺🕺🧓😘
God rest you all ,four tops 😂😂😂😂
Amen 🙏
I always loved Levi❤