THE FOUR TOPS RETURN TRIUMPHANT WITH RELEASE OF NEW SINGLE "EAST COAST WEST COAST" ON JENNY JENNY RECORDS!
(First New Music in 20 years from the Motor City icons)
(DETROIT / LOS ANGELES) - Jenny Jenny Records is delighted to announce The Four Tops long-awaited release, "East Coast West Coast". In early 2008, Jenny Jenny Records will also release a full-length album of new Four Tops music - the first new music from the Hall-of-Famers in two decades.
Click & Listen to the Four Tops Fabulous New Single, via Soul-Patrol.Net Radio - "East Coast West Coast"
The classic R&B group, known for its vigorous touring and exhilarating stage show, has thrown its peerless energy into these new studio recordings. The first single, "East Coast West Coast", was co-written by original Tops member Duke Fakir, current Top Lawrence Payton Jr., (son of original member Lawrence Payton), and Paul Hill, who also produced the track. Performing alongside Fakir and Payton Jr. are Theo Peoples (Grammy-nominated as lead singer of The Temptations, best known for "Stay" and "Promise) and Ronnie McNeir, whose story is the stuff of music legend. When original lead singer Levi Stubbs became ill at a sold-out concert in 2001, the group was ready to cancel the show. Saying "Put me in a tux!," Ronnie strode out onstage and proceeded to finish the sold out concert to rave reviews, securing his spot as a permanent member of the group.
Click & Listen to the Four Tops Fabulous New Single, via Soul-Patrol.Net Radio - "East Coast West Coast"
"East Coast West Coast" will be available on CD in selected retail outlets and directly from Jenny Jenny Records September 18, with digital distribution to follow. The company plans to release a second single in October 2007, and full-length CD in early 2008.
Click & Listen to the Four Tops Fabulous New Single, via Soul-Patrol.Net Radio - "East Coast West Coast"
Jenny Jenny Records was founded in 2002 in Los Angeles by entrepreneur and industry insider Jenice Smith. The label focuses on artist-driven projects from legendary acts like The Four Tops. The company differs from other labels, relying on time-tested expertise to control costs and create efficiently, producing great new records, happy artists, and thrilled fans.
http://www.myspace.com/jennyjennyrecords
FOUR TOPS
Bob,
Obie Benson, was a life time friend of The Dells, and a good friend of Johnnie Carter. Obie loved life, and lived life to it's fullest. The Dells and 4 Tops bonded many years ago, because The 4 Tops worked "Idlewild" Michigan with Billy Ecstine, and The Dells worked with the late Dinah Washington. At this particular time, neither one of us were singing R&B, we were aspiring to become jazz singers such as The 4 Freshman, and The Hi-lows. There was a musical genius out of Chicago named KIRK STEWART who became the vocal coach for both The Tops, and The Dells. This is where this mutual admiration began, and endures to this day.
This is truly a sad day in our lives..... Lawrence Payton passed, Levi Stubbs is ILL, and Obie has passed, life, and time has destroyed one of the GREATEST GROUPS EVER, and as great as Luther was, and I do mean GREAT, less not forget how long The Tops were GREAT.
mmdells
www.themightydells.com
LISTEN TO SOUL-PATROL'S TRIBUTE TO THE FOUR TOPS...
Four Tops: 50th Anniversary Anthology track listing:
Disc One
Baby I Need Your Loving
Without The One You Love (Life's Just Not Worthwhile)
Ask the Lonely
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
It's the Same Old Song
Something About You
Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)
Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
Reach Out I'll Be There
Standing in the Shadows of Love
Bernadette
I Got a Feeling
7-Rooms of Gloom
I'll Turn to Stone
You Keep Running Away
Walk Away Renee
If I Were a Carpenter
Yesterday's Dreams
I'm in a Different World
What Is a Man
Don't Let Him Take Your Love From Me
It's All in the Game
Still Water (Love)
River Deep Mountain High
Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)
In These Changing Times
MacArthur Park (Part II)
Disc Two
A Simple Game
I Can't Quit Your Love
(It's the Way) Nature Planned It
Keeper of the Castle
Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)
Are You Man Enough
Sweet Understanding Love
I Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind
One Chain Don't Make No Prison
Midnight Flower
Seven Lonely Nights
We All Gotta Stick Together
Catfish
H.E.L.P.
When She Was My Girl
Tonight I'm Gonna Love You All Over
I Believe In You and Me
Back to School Again
I Just Can't Walk Away
Mean Green Mother From Outer Space
Indestructible
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