Four Tops Second Album

Four Tops Second Album
Studio album by Four Tops
Released	November 13, 1965 (1965-11-13)
Studio	Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit
Length	32:09
Label	Motown
Producer	Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Smokey Robinson[1]
Four Tops chronology
Four Tops (1964) Four Tops Second Album (1965) On Top (1966)
Singles from Four Tops Second Album
"I Can't Help Myself" Released: April 23, 1965 "It's the Same Old Song" Released: July 9, 1965 "Something About You" Released: October 21, 1965

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Record Mirror	[3]

Four Tops Second Album (also known as Second Album) is the second studio album by American R&B vocal quartet the Four Tops. The album, released on the Motown record label, reached No. 3 on Billboard's Black Albums chart and No. 20 on the Billboard Top LPs chart.^[4] The album contains three hit singles. "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" reached No. 1 on both the Black Singles and Pop Singles charts, while "It's the Same Old Song" reached No. 2 and No. 5 respectively, and "Something About You" reached No. 9 and No. 19.^[5] In 1990, Motown bundled the Four Tops' first two albums together in a release titled Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album.^[6]

Track listing

All songs written by Holland–Dozier–Holland (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland), unless otherwise noted.

Side 1

1. "I Can't Help Myself" – 2:45
2. "Love Feels Like Fire" – 2:08
3. "Is There Anything That I Can Do" (Warren "Pete" Moore, Smokey Robinson, Ronald White) – 3:07
4. "Something About You" – 2:44
5. "It's the Same Old Song" – 2:51
6. "Helpless" – 2:46

Side 2

1. "Just as Long as You Need Me" – 3:12
2. "Darling, I Hum Our Song" – 2:44
3. "I Like Everything About You" – 2:21
4. "Since You've Been Gone" – 2:33
5. "Stay in My Lonely Arms" – 2:21
6. "I'm Grateful" (Eddie Holland, Cleo Drake, George Fowler) – 2:37

Personnel

Performance

• Levi Stubbs – lead baritone vocals (except tracks 2 and 11); backing vocals (tracks 2 and 11)
• Abdul Fakir – first tenor backing vocals
• Renaldo Benson – bass backing vocals
• Lawrence Payton – second tenor backing vocals (except tracks 2 and 11); lead vocals (tracks 2 and 11); keyboard
• The Andantes – backing vocals
• Instrumentation by the Funk Brothers

References

1. Don't forget the motor city: Listing of song titles beginning with I
2. AllMusic review
3. Jones, Peter; Jopling, Norman (March 26, 1966). "Four Tops: Second Album" (PDF). Record Mirror. No. 263. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 1, 2022. Retrieved August 22, 2022.
4. The Four Tops Billboard Albums at AllMusic
5. The Four Tops Billboard Singles at AllMusic
6. Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album at AllMusic

External links

• Four Tops' Second Album at MTV, with lyrics
• Four Tops - Second Album (1965) album review by Ron Wynn, credits & releases on AllMusic
• Four Tops - Second Album (1965) album releases & credits on Discogs
• Four Tops - Second Album (1965) album to be listened as stream on Spotify