Essential Collection

~ Release by Four Tops (see all versions of this release, 1 available)

Tracklist

1CD
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1Baby I Need Your Loving2:45
2Ask the Lonely2:48
3I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
recording engineer:
Russ Terrana
producer:
Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland
baritone saxophone:
Mike Terry (in 1965)
bass [1962 Fender Precision Bass]:
James Jamerson
drums (drum set):
Richard "Pistol" Allen (in 1965)
guitar [1964 Gibson Firebird III]:
Eddie Willis (in 1965)
guitar [Fender Telecaster with Jazzmaster Neck]:
Joe Messina (in 1965)
guitar [Gibson L-5]:
Robert White (in 1965)
instruments:
The Funk Brothers (in 1965)
piano:
Earl Van Dyke (in 1965)
strings:
Detroit Symphony Orchestra (in 1965)
tambourine:
Jack Ashford (in 1965)
vibraphone:
Jack Brokensha (in 1965)
background vocals:
The Andantes (in 1965), Marlene Barrow (in 1965), Renaldo Benson (in 1965), Louvain Demps (in 1965), Abdul “Duke” Fakir (in 1965), Jackie Hicks (in 1965) and Lawrence Payton (in 1965)
lead vocals:
Levi Stubbs (in 1965)
recorded at and mixed at:
Hitsville in Detroit, Michigan, United States (in 1965)
part of:
Dave Marsh: The Best of the Top 40 Singles: 1965 (number: 30), Billboard: The 500 Best Pop Songs (number: 148), Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (number: 415) and Rolling Stone: 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2021 edition (number: 483)
recording of:
I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (in 1965)
lyricist:
Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Eddie Holland
composer:
Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland
publisher:
Stone Agate Music Division
2:46
4It’s the Same Old Song2:47
5Reach Out I’ll Be There3:02
6Standing in the Shadows of Love
producer:
Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland
phonographic copyright (℗) by:
Motown Record Corporation (in 1966)
recording of:
Standing in the Shadows of Love
lyricist:
Eddie Holland
composer:
Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland
publisher:
Jobete Music Ltd
2:39
7Shake Me, Wake Me (When It’s Over)2:44
8Bernadette3:03
9Walk Away Renee2:45
10You Keep Running Away2:51
11If I Were a Carpenter2:52
12Still Water (Love)3:14
13It’s All in the Game2:53
14(It’s the Way) Nature Planned It3:40
15Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got) (album version)3:06
16Keeper of the Castle (album version)3:00
17Are You Man Enough
producer:
Steve Barri, Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter
arranger:
Don Hockett and Dennis Lambert
recording of:
Are You Man Enough
lyricist and composer:
Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter
3:29
18Sweet Understanding Love3:03
19One Chain Don’t Make No Prison3:32
20Midnight Flower3:34
21Catfish3:50
22When She Was My Girl3:25
23I Just Can’t Walk Away4:24
24I Believe in You and Me4:00

Credits

Release

art direction:Vartan
Ilene Weingard
liner notes:Steven Ivory
miscellaneous support:Michele Horie (task: project coordination)
Robin Schwartz (task: licensing)
co-producer:Dana G. Smart
producer:Pat Lawrence (task: compilation)
mastering:Erick Labson
mastered at:Universal Mastering West in Los Angeles, California, United States
Discogs:https://www.discogs.com/release/4797762 [info]
ASIN:US: B000050I1X [info]