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  • Bliss...........this is music with class.

  • these guys nail it down, best version ever!!. hands down.

  • @thothemighty THATS WHERE MY MOM GOT MY NAME. I WAS BORN IN 66. I LIKE IT.

  • Well, i mostly agree about how great Levi & Co. were, but Usher isn't all that bad! lolol...

  • Love this song and a great cover by the Four Tops. Incredible to think it was written by a 16 year old.

  • Wonderful.

  • @bluesatsunset agreed! Peace friend.

  • @vm24seven365

    Peace to to brother!

  • I keep coming back here. I think I must have lost something precious somewhere in the sands of time.

  • @2001perseus I hear ya friend...the BEST!!!...miss this music so much.

  • The Four Tops were not only elegant and with class but they always impressed me as a MoTown

    big time great.

  • Was on hols as a teenager with mum and dad. Every cafe we stopped at, I put this on the jukebox. Absolute magic!!

  • Motown made a good choice signing the four tops. Levi had probably the best vocal of all the Motown singers. Brillaint! The song gives me goosebumps. There won't be vocalists like this anymore. American pop/RnB, (whatever that means nowadays) seriously (with the exception of a few artists) need to look back to move forward

  • 0.47 Wow! What a voice. Shivers up the spine.

  • Beeeautiful!

  • my parents made a good choice of name, i guess!

  • The 60s were such a great decade because everyone got along musically- don't think that can be said today...

  • @andyr1313 no it cant sadly, what a damn shame.

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  • I love the Left Banke but the 4 tops took it to another level

  • @Tonithenightowl you took the words right out of my mouth the Left Banke version is cool but the Four Tops put that soul in it lol

  • @bfer95 Both versions are great, I just feel the Four Tops version more powerful,right down to the powerful bass drums and of course Levi's voice. Thanks for responding.:o)

  • Just goes to show that costumes, special effects, inane dancing, meaningless lyrics and electronic music, when all summed up, are no substitue for talent, dignity and class.

  • my sister was born same year this was released .Guess what her name is ?

  • Sorry, but I love this song, I have replay fever..

  • What does class look like? It looks like this.

  • @TubeNumber1USA I love the 4 tops 2 and your right but I also loved the british bands of that era just keep this in mind levi and for tops had incredible vocal talent , still a 16 year old wrote that song a classic amazing

  • Great voices, great song, fantastic backing!

  • Does anyone remember a version by a British group called The Truth which got released on Decca Records in 1967. I remember it getting into the charts. If anyone has it can they upload it. I haven't heard it in over forty years. It was also an excellent version.

  • "Tops" version is a so much better then "Left Banke".....by a mile!!!!

  • Just saw the Tops Sunday Night with the Temptations. Although only Duke remains of the original lineup, the love of the music has transcended to a new generation. God give you rest Levi, Obie and Lawrence because your music has brought joy to fans for over 50 years and shows no sign of stopping. And thank you Duke for giving younger generations the chance to experience heaven on earth.

  • I like the Four Tops version FAR better than the Left Banke's version. The Left Banke's version sounds too wimpy, but the Four Tops version sounds very classy.  Four Tops rocks!

  • Levi Stubs and the other 3 tops were one of the best groups ever!

    I saw them at the Royal Prince Albert Music Hall in the early 80's.

    I was in the fifth row, awesome, best ever

  • This track inspired me to take up dancing!

    RIP Levi Stubbs - one of the great voices of the 20th century.

  • This is the best version of this song. anything these guys put their voices to it always came out sounding beautiful. and with levi on lead what else can you say,this man's voice need to be put in the smithsonian. never will be another voice like levi. RIP. LEVI,OBIE AND LARRY. LOVE YOU GUYS.

  • This when music was music, not the rap crap we hear today about cop killing, women beating, every other word a foul mouth explitive, a sexual explict comment meant to demean women or authority. These motown songs were clearly owned by the Black Groups who sang about love, family and life in a good way. The garbage we hear today blasting out of cars is just noise with words that preach hate.

  • @mcmxlix49

    Oh no, they swear? Your Ronald Reagan loving sensibilities must be in a state of terminal shock.

    You're most likely one of these people who looked at Hurricane Katrina and said, "they deserve it." And you wonder why the black community harbors some indignity.

    Oh and by the way, you're complaint about "new music" is the same line of bullshit trotted out with every new generation of music. They said it about the blues, jazz, motown, pop and rock and roll.

  • NEVER KNEW FOUR TOPS DID THIS SONG EXCELLENT JOB MY BROTHAS. WE ARE SOUTHERN CAL. WE ALL ARE ONE.

  • One of personal favorites! Love The Four Tops!

  • I really love this group. Sugar Pie Honey Bunch, Just Ask the Lonely, etc...reminds me of my elementary school day when my brothers and I went to Double Oaks swimming pool every week day to swim, swimming lessons in the morning, and pay quarter for afternoon swimming all day long, and listen to the Four Tops on the juke box. Music played all day. What sweet memories.

  • talent and class.....missing in today's music...Delphonics,stylistics,­temptations,supremes,curtis mayfield,I could use up all 500 letters and not scratch the surface....God I miss this music..!

  • Superb!

  • Show me a black band that produces great music today. Forget about it.

  • Just the nicest people i ever met in show biz. Absolutely no ego and they had a love for singing all types of music. Levi had many offers to go solo . but he stuck by the group to the end. because they were a harmony group from the start. Levi got put out front on the lead by Berry gordy.but the harmony really delivered them to stardom.

  • No one will ever match the captain.........Levi

  • guys lets face it, todays music, todays artist, they cant hold a candle to the four tops, these guys , when they sang, you felt every word, note ,sound, beat, deep in your heart,yet here it is 2011, 45 years later and this song has stood the test of time, thankyou four tops , thank you barry gordi jnr and THANK GOD FOR MOTOWN

  • One of the greatest remakes of one of the greatest songs by one of the great music groups in history! Thank you for posting this classic.

  • Mo Town was the greatest. I remember when my folks would take my sister to the neighbors house. I was always alone. I danced in the shadows to all the Mo Town greats. I will always remember. 

  • how do i remove a video from my playlist ?

  • In my opinion, the mark of a great singer or singing group, Is when they can do a cover of a popular song, and you have to decide which version you like the better, the original or the cover. LOL The Four Tops were indeed Motown's Royalty!

  • I've never heard of "Usher", but I do remember both The Four Tops and The Left Bank (a Limey group during the "British Invasion" of the mid-60's) doing this song. They are both very good, and you don't have to compare them. So, I guess I should go check out the Usher version to see if (he, she, them) can compare with the old-timers.

  • @BluezGuitarz I know who Usher is, and like a lot of his songs, but I didn't know he did this....

  • one of my favorite songs ever, such good memories

  • i hate it when ppl say the music was so much better then. there was a godawful shitload of pure crap then also. there's great music now- just as there;s shite too. b ut music has been turned into a sub culktural demographic for the ppl that make lots of cash outta it. music now is just as great as it was then. the talent scouts have been replaced wi the internet is all. now YOU are your own talent scout finding great music. and i dont mean boy bands manufactured crud.

  • @narred Music was better then, and I could probably write a book on the reasons why, but in the end it boils down to economics - anyone clever enough to have good taste in music is also clever enough to work out how to get it without paying for it. The old support mechanisms that encouraged excellence are dead, your left with twelve year olds who have their parents iTunes accounts to drive the trends.

  • Usher? USHER?????????? if anyone and i mean anyone ever EVER mentions that lightweight prettyboi in the same sentence with the IMMORTAL Levi Stubbs well i simply will not be responsible for my actions...

  • @akitaman101 Ditto!

  • @GereDJ2- indeed. A cover, but Four Tops made it this their own.

  • I was 17 when I first heard this and had to pull over my 54 Ford and listen to it. I knew it was The Four Tops immediately, but I thought, my God, it sounds like Bob Dylan with Soul! Stopped me in my tracks. With all respect to The Left Banke, The Four Tops gave this song the justice it deserved. An American classic and one of the finest songs ever recorded. Glad we can claim it. Thanks!

  • This is when people could actually sing, create beautiful harmonies, and convey a positive message. Thanks for posting this great video. Kudos!

  • I'd give anything to have a voice like Levi 8-)

  • Ohhhhhhh, I remember hearing the Four Tops sing this live, starting when they did that famous Temps versus Tops concert at Radio City Hall in the 1980s....Saw them a few times after that...Great soul music doesn't get much better than this, folks!

  • This would be a pretty good example of a soul singer...."just walk away Renee"....took the original and ran with it...made it even better....a rare thing indeed.

  • So much better than today's rapping nursery rhymes . This, also, is better than the

    original. Levi & Co. were great singers.

  • awwww<3 Every girl named renee is hott ;)

  • Love it!!  Singers/artists could learn alot--TODAY- from MOTOWN!!!

  • These guys really understood what The Left Banke felt about Renee, and they expressed it better. Great for you Four Tops!!!

  • Can someone explain why 2 people dislike this?

  • now that is music.

  • four tops are great

  • Awesomely, beautiful sound from these guys.

  • i love the way the Tops took a beautiful, melodic, mega-white baroque & roll song and put their Soul spin on it...So cool.

    The 60's, hands down the best American musical decade

  • Absolutely magnificent.

    Circa 1968 , a lot of Motown.

    A lot of class.

  • pure class

  • A great song, done by one of the Greatest groups of all time! Levi, and the tops were just super! I had the absolute privilege of seeing them twice!

  • I don't think I love a song more then this, I hold a sandan in Karata, I've taken many an ass whopping and never cryed. But this bring tears to my eyes. What I wouldn't give to relive those day. To Freddy,Paul, Chiky,Alex and all the others I ran with. Where ever you might be:)

  • @lovethemuisc it's that kind of song

  • I forgot all about this song until I saw it played on Ally McBeal when she played it for her friend Renee. A perfectly beautiful song.

  • The best harmonies!!

  • This song tugs at the heart strings. Brings back warm memories of Calor Gas heating, cold grey winters, chilblains and large family gatherings bliss pure bliss!!!

  • @Roseau112 I wish I could give that 5 thumbs up. Me, too. And the smell of wet wool.

  • @annikee59 Lol!!!! yes wet wool.

  • amazing song , fantastic vocals from levi stubbs I feel lucky to have been brought up in the sixties

  • Today's black singers like Usher can't hold a candle to the likes of The Four Tops and The Temptations.

  • @iw32 Nobody can hold a candle to the Four Tops, and Walk Away Renee is a heartbreaking classic still, after all these years. I can't think of another song that speaks of desolation and loss so poignantly, and with such a cracking soul tune.

  • @iw32 yep

  • @iw32 usher was good in his prime..now his shit is garbage..but even in his prime i agree..even though its different genres

  • A great song and my personal 4 Tops favorite. This and 'It's All In The Game' show how very well they sang anything.

  • Saw them many years ago with The Four seasons, that was an amazing night!

  • one of the best songs ever. one of the best covers ever!

  • fantastic x

  • These guys got together in 1954 and after 10 years of sticking together when most groups back then split up when they saw no success happen after a year or 2, Larry, Duke, Levi and Obie stuck it through, and their hard work payed off, these guys truly had an inner love for one another unlike the Temptations where things started to fall apart in 1963 with the dissmissal of Al Bryant, then David Ruffin, the Four Tops were till Death do they part, 1954 to 1997 they kept the 4 original members

  • the 2 dislikes must not know what good music is. The Four Tops were AMAZING and a league of their own. The Tamla Motown sound was one that will NEVER be recreated again. Once in a lifetime experience and amazing to have all those recordings still around. I will recommend Phil Collins' new album Going Back as a great listen to compliment a Motown collection. He pours his heart and soul in recreating some of Motown's finest tracks. A real musician will appreciate that album also.

  • Wauw!!! dat is nog eens muziek, zoiets blijft altijd, jammer dat ze dit in deze tijd niet meer kunnen.

  • @marietje1012 haha.. not sure what you said, but I'm sure it was good. :)  Dutch?

  • wow ..this is great!

  • damn these guys were good.

  • I'm only 17 but i think this song is amazing. Brilliant vocals, i would have loved to see them live!

  • As good live as on record, There will never be any other man that can sing like Levi.. I was lucky I did see them over ten times in London Hammersmith Odeon 1970s took them three songs to get the PA going believe me he never needed it he just carried on singing... and with the tops behind him he was unstoppable I grew up with this music and will die with it.. The amazing Motown sound at it’s best.

  • i LOVE the Four Top's version.

  • Not a soul fan at all, but always thought Levi had a vocal that was out of this world.

    This song and all round vocal is just class.

    To me, it makes the Ross, Smokey sound kinda fake.

    RIP Mr. Stubbs...`from a rocker`

  • Unlike many Motown groups, The Four Tops stayed together because nobody got greedy & they never left their hometown. I am only 43 and The Four Tops are my favorite group from Motown. Back in the 90's I was in a bank and I can't remember which one it was, but one of them came in the bank. He was definately a regular because the teller's knew him. It might had been Levi. I wish I can remember who it was. I am proud to be from Motown. Levi Stubbs had an amazing voice

  • Michael Brown wrote an endearing song despite his personal demons. The 4 tops did a remarkable rendition. Thanks for the post.

  • Levi Stubbs had an amazing sense of melody and feel. He takes this to another place! Just fantastic! Pure soul!

  • This version is definately better than the original. The Left Banke did a good job on this song but The Four Tops took it to another level. Levi will always be awesome.

  • R.I.P. Levi,soul legend!!!!!

  • Pure class.

  • magnificant

  • such a sad song,,,,,i cry everytime i hear it. thank you and rest in peace Levi.

  • great song but they were all good we will still be listening to this when the rappers will have gone by the way of the dodo u dont hear fowl language poping caps in people i mean how many women are realy interested in some fat git in an ovrsize teashirt and baggy trouser because the are all he can get to fit the blubber

  • I stand corrected. These guys were swinging for the upper decks when they hit this song. Left Banke should be proud of this re-make.

  • @Desoto875 Not to mention all the royalties! ;)

  • Great Stuff dont make it like this anymore.

  • The guy on the end left looks like Jose Jalepeno. No insult intended, but he looks like him,

  • @coomason5  On A Steek

  • Beautiful....

  • Yes, Yes! I love these guys anyway and doing this, wow

  • I love both the Left Banke's version and this one, but the Four Tops' version has SOMETHING that I really like... it might be the "oohs" in the background or the instrumental part in the middle... I don't know. The 4 Tops' version was far more popular on "oldies" radio in Seattle...

  • Major Chills!... So Beautiful and Haunting! What a treat.

  • The late and great Levi Stubbs must be teaching the angels how to sing properly in Heaven now. God bless you Levi ! This is the most haunting and melancholy of all tamla motown songs.

  • Fantastic. Such class.

  • The Four Tops in one word, Fantastic.

    This is one of my favourite songs. Love this performance, Thanx for sharing. They are really classy and motowns best male group.

  • Why don't musicians dress like this nowadays?

  • The 4 tops and Left Banke both did a great job with this song. One of my Favorite songs of all time.

  • Hmmm...I always kinda thought that the reason the Andantes were used on so many 4 Tops records was because their harmonies needed "a lift" or they sang too softly...they are AMAZING alone!! I don't see where The Andantes were needed AT ALL!!

  • Just walk away Renee Zellweger,Don't make another movie EVER!

  • I much prefer the Left Bank's original version.

  • RIP MR. Levi such a soulful voice so passionate.

  • This was the opening number of their concert at The Dome Brighton in ??1971 or thereabouts.

    They started singing off stage and when they walked on singing this number...The place exploded!!!!!!!!!!

    Cos the rich dudes who bought the expensive seats didn't like it, they erected these huge 12 foot signs, The Dome then warned us about getting out of our seats and getting chucked out at following concerts.

    The first group to have ever done this. It was a revolution.

  • Wow was that good!

    What happened to American popular music?

    Why is music today so vulgar?

    What happened?

    Oh well... we have these gems from better days.

    God bless all.

  • Overall, these guys were my fav R&B group. Levi Stubbs simply had the most amazing voice and they had quite a long career too.

  • Pure and utter class

  • Just beautiful! Thank you for sharing! Love this version better than the Left Banke's!

  • The BEST motown band of all time.

  • These four gentlemen were the epitome of class and dignity. Sadly, Duke is the last surviving member, but Levi, Obie, and Lawrence will never be forgotten. All respect to The Left Banke for this memorable song, but as alexalot 23 says, Levi took this song all the way to soulville and beyond.

  • There is and there never will be another group like the four guys here. I really miss music like this. Thanks for the post!!!

  • I watch the Tops and The Dells, and I still can't decide who influenced whom.

    Never were there two "deeper" singers than Levi Stubbs or Marvin Jr.

  • Levi---just maybe the best voice Motown evr had---JUST CLASSIC..

  • growing up in glasgow listening to motown and being a mod with a vespa 175 with union jack panels........fab

  • they sound like angels. Love this song anyways but the accapella was such a treat Thanks bunches and bunches

  • beautiful song....thank you for this unforgettable memory

  • Beautiful song. Thank you guys. Thank you Levi RIP

  • levi stubbs best vocalist ever. this track and film surperb. in my top ten. backing vocals have been multitrated or xtra singers involved. but still great.

  • Say what one will, Levi was the four tops!!!!

  • :@lovethemuisc: Levi Stubbs WAS, IS and WILL ALWAYS BE the GRATEST LEAD VOCALIST of ALL times (Just ask the VOICE!) but NOT The Four Tops, If he thought that he would have, could have, but NEVER DID go solo because he had a lot RESPECT for for his BANDMATES!!!!!. THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!!.

  • Just Great :) love this song. The Four Tops were amazing.

  • The Left Banke wrote and recorded a really good song. The Four Tops--in large part because the late, great Levi Stubbs had a one-in-a-lifetime voice--covered it and produced a great, always-remember song. Wish there were still groups standing on street corners in the evening emploring, developing, and refining vocal gifts and possibilities. These "4"did that when they were just kids, and look what came out of that. A legacy to be proud of.

  • @missmaryherself

     yes indeed!

    ITA

    "brothers standing on the street corners crooning"

    I'll never forget

  • :@missmaryherself: AMEN TO THAT SISTER!. Brothers standing on the street corners honing their vocal and performing skills, Stevie Wonder said it best I WISH THOSE DAYS COULD COME BACK ONCE MORE!.

  • @missmaryherself They will never be forgotten...Do U know what high school they went to in Detroit seems like everyone went to either North eastern, Northwestern or Northern? Just curious.

  • @missmaryherself

    The Tops were 3 steps ahead and miles above the crowd.

    I cannot imagine a world without their amazing music.

    The acapella version of this wonderful song says more about pure talent than it does about Renee............

  • the great quartet ! great classic track. so many memories ! Music is the message ! Dream World !

    Peace nice one !

  • Levi Stubbs.The best voice in Motown, ever.Sadly missed.

  • These guys were magic! The likes of them don't come along twice in a lifetime.

  • :@56richardcory: AMEN TO THAT, THEY COME ALONG BUT ONCE IN A LIFETIME.

  • Beautiful song. Great video. Thanks

  • DAMN! levi took this song all the way to soulville and beyond. beautiful!

  • @alexalot23 You got that right....I have the original by Left banke but when I heard the Four Tops it was like holy sh!t(lol).

    Levi it it out of thepark with this one...maybe my fav tops song.

  • :@alexalot23: THREE WORDS: AMEN TO THAT!.

  • @alexalot23 ITA

  • hi, the org. by the left bank was great but you can't understand the words lol. The four tops do a great job. thxx 4 the post.

  • you're not supposed to focus on the words, it's the mood they evoke

  • thank you for post thats awesome interpretation!!

  • They were the best act on Motown by a mile.Soul at its best.

  • Just noticed...good job with keeping the soundtrack in synch too :))

  • Brilliant posting cyberbob!  5*'s !

  • RIP Laurence, RIP Obie RIP Levi Big up Duke Long live the The Four Tops. Classic one of my favourite songs

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