The Best of the Four Tops

Tracklist

• 12" Vinyl 1
• 1
  Baby I Need Your Loving
  2:50
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Without the One You Love (Life’s Not Worth While)
  2:56
• 3
  Ask the Lonely
  3:01
• 4
  I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
  2:45
  3.6 ★
• 5
  It’s the Same Old Song
  2:49
  4.0 ★
• 6
  Something About You
  2:44
• 7
  Shake Me; Wake Me (When It’s Over)
  2:42
• 8
  Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
  2:51
• 9
  Reach Out I’ll Be There
  3:01
  3.8 ★
• 10
  Standing in the Shadows of Love
  2:39
  4.8 ★
• 11
  Bernadette
  3:05
  4.0 ★
• 12
  7 Rooms of Gloom
  2:37
  5.0 ★
• 12" Vinyl 2
• 1
  I’ll Turn to Stone
  2:32
  3.0 ★
• 2
  You Keep Running Away
  2:55
• 3
  Walk Away Renee
  2:46
  3.0 ★
• 4
  If I Were a Carpenter
  2:51
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Yesterday’s Dreams
  2:58
• 6
  I’m in a Different World
  3:01
  3.0 ★
• 7
  It’s All in the Game
  2:47
• 8
  Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)
  3:08
• 9
  In These Changing Times
  2:54
• 10
  Mac Arthur Park
  6:33
• 11
  (It’s the Way) Nature Planned It
  2:58
• 12
  Still Water (Love)
  3:15

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Reach Out I'll Be There / Until You Love Someone

Reach Out I'll Be There / Until You Love Someone 1966

I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) / Sad Souvenirs

I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) / Sad Souvenirs 1965

Release credits

• Abdul “Duke” Fakir
  background vocals [4-5, 9]
• Andrew “Mike” Terry
  baritone saxophone [4-5]
• Benny Benjamin
  drums (drum set) [5]
• Brian Holland
  producer [1.1, 1.3-12, 2.1, 2.3-4, 2.6]
• David Van dePitte
  arranger [8]
• Detroit Symphony Orchestra
  strings [4-5]
• Earl Van Dyke
  piano [4-5]
• Eddie Willis
  guitar [4-5]
• Frank Wilson
  producer [7-8]
• Ivy Jo Hunter
  producer [8]
• Jack Ashford
  tambourine [4-5]
• Jack Brokensha
  vibraphone [4-5]
• Jackie Hicks
  background vocals [4-5, 9]
• James Jamerson
  bass [4-5]
• Jerry Long
  arranger [7]
• Jimmy Roach
  arranger [7]
• Joe Messina
  guitar [4-5]
• Lamont Dozier
  producer [2.1, 2.3-4, 2.6, 1.1, 1.3-12]
• Lawrence Payton
  background vocals [4-5, 9]
• Lawrence T. Horn
  recording [5]
• Levi Stubbs
  lead vocals [4-5, 9]
• Louvain Demps
  background vocals [4-5, 9]
• Marlene Barrow
  background vocals [4-5, 9]
• R. Dean Taylor
  producer [6]
• Renaldo Benson
  background vocals [4-5, 9]
• Richard "Pistol" Allen
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Robert L. Gordy
  mix [5]
• Robert White
  guitar [4-5]
• Russ Terrana
  recording [4]
• The Andantes
  background vocals [4, 9]
• The Funk Brothers
  instrument [4, 9]
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Issues

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  The Best of the Four Tops

  2x 12" Vinyl
  1973