Image "Beatitude" from Phil May's ABC by Phil May, 1897
The world lost two Motown legends recently, and I wanted to write about them from the time I started this blog. Not that I'm a Motown expert or anything - I admit I feel a little like a hypocrite writing about Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops because I only really got to know their music this year, and I'm not much of an R&B/soul enthusiast anyway. But I've started listening to some of the great '60s Motown stuff this year, and it really struck me that I've been missing out. I don't think I'd ever heard "Bernadette" by the Four Tops on oldies radio or anything, and I the first time I heard it, I was blown away by Levi Stubbs' amazing vocals. He passed away in October, leaving behind an amazing body of work. Not just his work with the Four Tops - he was also the voice of Audrey II in the musical film Little Shop of Horrors.
My favorite Four Tops song is probably "I'll Turn to Stone". It was never a hit, although I read somewhere that it was a favorite in the Northern Soul music scene in the UK in the '70s. It was the b-side to "7-Rooms of Gloom", one of the Four Tops' weirder hits (and definitely the Motown title with the weirdest use of a hyphen.)
"I'll Turn to Stone" by the Four Tops
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