Friday, April 6, 2012

Hits List: Four Tops

This Motown group churned out a consistent list of great songs in the 1960's and 70's and even scored hits into the 80's.  Here is the complete Hits List from one of The Top 100 Artists of the Rock Era*:

1964:  "Baby I Need Your Loving" (#11)--vastly underrated.
          "Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)" (#43)
1965:  "Ask the Lonely" (#24, #9 R&B)
           "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" (#1, #1 R&B, #23 U.K.)
           "It's the Same Old Song" (#5, #2 R&B, #34 U.K.)
           "Something About You" (#19, #9 R&B)
1966:  "Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)" (#18, #3 R&B)
           "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" (#45, #12 R&B, #21 U.K.)
           "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" (#1, #1 R&B, #1 U.K.)
           "Standing in the Shadows of Love" (#6, #2 R&B, #6 U.K.)

1967:  "Bernadette" (#4, #2 R&B, #8 U.K.)
           "7-Rooms of Gloom" (#14, #11 R&B, #12 U.K.)
           "I'll Turn to Stone" (#76, #50 R&B)
           "You Keep Running Away" (#19, #7 R&B, #26 U.K.)
1968:  "Walk Away Renee" (#14, #15 R&B, #3 U.K.)
           "If I Were a Carpenter" (#20, #17 R&B, #7 U.K.)
           "Yesterday's Dreams" (#49, #31 R&B, #23 U.K.)
           "I'm in a Different World" (#51, #23 R&B, #27 U.K.)
1969:  "What Is a Man" (#53, #16 U.K.)
           "Do What You Gotta' Do" (#11 U.K.)
           "Don't Let Him Take Your Love from Me" (#45, #25 R&B)
           "Barbara's Boy"

1970:  "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" (re-issue) (#10 U.K.)
           "It's All in the Game" (#24, #6 R&B, #5 U.K.)
           "Love (Is the Answer)" (#5 U.K.)
           "Still Water (Love)" (#11, #4 R&B, #10 U.K.)
           "River Deep - Mountain High" (with the Supremes) (#14, #7 R&B, #11 U.K.)--underrated.
1971:  "Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)" (#40, #9 R&B, #36 U.K.)
           "You Gotta' Have Love in Your Heart" (with the Supremes) (#55, #41 R&B, #25 U.K.)
           "In These Changing Times" (#70, #28 R&B)
           "MacArthur Park (Part II)" (#38)

1972:  "A Simple Game" (#90, #34 R&B, #3 U.K.)
           "Bernadette" (re-issue) (#23 U.K.)
           "Walk with Me, Talk with Me, Darling" (#32 U.K.    
           "(It's the Way) Nature Planned It" (#53, #8 R&B)
           "Keeper of the Castle"  (#10, #7 R&B, #18 U.K.)
1973:  "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got" (#4, #2 R&B)
           "Are You Man Enough" (#15, #2 R&B)
           "Sweet Understanding Love" (#33, #10 R&B, #29 U.K.)
1974:  "I Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind" (#62, #18 R&B)
           "One Chain Don't Make No Prison" (#44, #3 R&B)
           "Midnight Flower" (#55, #5 R&B)
1975:  "Seven Lonely Nights" (#71, #13 R&B)
           "We All Gotta' Stick Together" (#97, #17 R&B)
1976:  "Catfish" (#71, #7 R&B)
           "I'm Glad You Walked Into My Life" (#76 R&B)

1981:  "When She Was My Girl" (#11, #1 R&B, #3 U.K.)
           "Don't Walk Away" (#16 U.K.)
1982:  "Let Me Set You Free" (#71 R&B)
           "Back to School Again" (#71, #62 U.K.)
           "Sad Hearts" (#84, #40 R&B)
           "Tonight I'm Gonna' Love You All Over" (#32 R&B, #43 U.K.)
1983:  "I Believe in You and Me" (#40 R&B)
           "I Just Can't Walk Away" (#71, #36 R&B)
1985:  "Sexy Ways" (#21 R&B)
1988:  "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" (re-issue) (#11 U.K.)
           "If Ever a Love There Was" (with Aretha Franklin) (#31 R&B)
           "Indestructible" (#35, #57 R&B, #30 U.K.)
1989:  "Loco in Acapulco" (#7 U.K.)


That's 44 hits, with 7 of those going Top 10 and two #1's.

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