ONLY GOD CAN GIVE me the RIGHT words to say. how, someone, PLEASE, tell me HOW i can put into WORDS what MOTOWN music has done for the world. what it has GIVEN in ABUNDANCE in UNIQUENESS that is UNTOUCHABLE, UNMATCHED, UNDENIABLY the ABSOLUTE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALLLLLLL GLORY TO GOD ALMIGHTY IN JESUS NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOMETHING BOUT THIS SONG. OMG!!!!!!!! CAN'T GET ENOUGHHHHHHHHH.
ok so does anyone else agree that the 4 tops sounded better when they got older and when they sung this song like for instance during the motown reunion of 85 i think it was
you lucky thing, when I finally had enough to even think of getting tickets to see them, Levi Stubbs died on the day I was to book them, and you got to see them at their best too
SOMETHING about this SONG. as MOTOWN is....unexplainable...other than GOD to be the GLORY in JESUS name. but the ENERGY of this MUSIC is as satisfying TODAY as it was THEN. something about OBAMA...love him. Something about MOTOWN...LOVE IT. ALLLLLLLLL ABOUT GOD ALMIGHTYYYYYYYYY.
Their hits were relentless in the 60's. It may be Motown made but this is rock & roll at its best. Credit the fantastic musicians backing the Four Tops because they really elevate it & support Levi Stubbs wonderfully. Their place in rock history is secure. Stubbs' vocals are right up there with the legends: Presley, Lennon, Dylan, Jagger, Morrison, Janis, Otis Redding, Ray Davies, Eric Burdon, Joe Cocker and anyone else you can think of that have survived for decades with a signature voice.
@lastrada52 I remember living in Philly in the mid-70's and WMMR, THE progressive rock station in the city....stuff like Wishbone Ash, The Fugs, Ry Cooder....they would play 'Something About You'....that's how great this song was and still is....
I LOVE THIS SONG!!! man,the rythem,the beat .used to dance in a line to this outstanding tune. i dunno,it kind of drives through the gut and into the soul. guess that's why it's called 'soul music'? doing it to us like only motown can...i swear this is the truth. thanks for sharing.
October 1968.My older borther's date stood him up so he gave the tickets to me and my friend to see the Tops at Eastern Mich University. 8 rows from the stage. It was my first real concert. Man, these guys and their band the Funk Bros cooked that night. Even as a goofy 14 year old, I could see their greatness. We hung around the stage after the show and a couple of the Funk Bros joked with us and teased us. One kept asking us why we didn't have girlfriends. They were really cool.
10:17 WXXX much more music time! Rockin' out with Levi Stubbs and the Four Tops with our seventh heavy hit in a row. Ron Radio giving you Motown and more! Rock on!
Nothing today holds a candle to the powerful driving force of the sounds of the 60s. It is such a unique and variety of music that reflects a time when America was FABULOUS! Not that America isn't anymore..but it is going through some major stuff that is putting her to the test. We need to reinvigorate America with a sense of sound and feeling "again" with a sound that got us off our asses and gave us energy and drive in our everyday. It inspired our creativity and made us #1.
@KittyPooKaBoomBoom-And America was being tested in the 60's? Music was class but it was the only keeping america from having another civil war, hate the period love the music.
That energy of the 60s was the sound of Baby Boomers raising hell. The movie, Animal House, comes about as close to the 60s goings on as anything yet produced. Unfortunately this generation has moved on in life and the music and perhaps some of you reading this are all that remain.
@KittyPooKaBoomBoom I agree with you about the music but according to my mom and many the 60s where anything but Fabulous. Segregration and Racism was bigger than ever back then.
@KittyPooKaBoomBoom Like everything else in a forever changing world..we, as a country, are getting older..but that was the "Boomer Generation" of America..and "man" was it a generation! Thank God I was apart of it! That thundering beat in the song, in a sense, was America during that time!
MAGNIFICENT from start to finish. always said that MOTOWN had the ABSOLUTE BEST SONG INTROS. lessons for all: START STRONG & the end should be just FINE. this song's start has that AMERICAN INDIAN feel to it.
well being that you brought in the "white" card heres a little tidbit for ya the drummer on this and ALL their hits is a white dude Ralph Gallante AKA Larry Londin (his stage / studio name) he drummed on more motown hits then Bernard Purdy or any other drummer of that era
it's funny.......and i mean this in a positive tone that white english bands would do this song .....but not white american band's.......by the way ....."levi stubbs" is the king!
ONLY GOD CAN GIVE me the RIGHT words to say. how, someone, PLEASE, tell me HOW i can put into WORDS what MOTOWN music has done for the world. what it has GIVEN in ABUNDANCE in UNIQUENESS that is UNTOUCHABLE, UNMATCHED, UNDENIABLY the ABSOLUTE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALLLLLLL GLORY TO GOD ALMIGHTY IN JESUS NAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOMETHING BOUT THIS SONG. OMG!!!!!!!! CAN'T GET ENOUGHHHHHHHHH.
tofelt 3 weeks ago
Today is Jan 31, 2012, and this song is better than 99.9% of the shit that's on the radio and videos right now!!!
publicatdamagnificen 4 weeks ago
luv lil wayne and the whole gang But will their stuff STAND UP 40+ years from now?
6lukeyflash 1 month ago
@6lukeyflash Why is there always a comment about Lil Wayne or some other rapper on Four Tops videos?
IAmPlaysWithSquirrel 1 month ago
ok so does anyone else agree that the 4 tops sounded better when they got older and when they sung this song like for instance during the motown reunion of 85 i think it was
KillaJ4L 1 month ago
you lucky thing, when I finally had enough to even think of getting tickets to see them, Levi Stubbs died on the day I was to book them, and you got to see them at their best too
ChrissiMatusevics 4 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Four Tops
THE MIGHTY FOUR TOPS....
MegaMusicman09 4 months ago
great foot stomper,luv it
alniter1000 4 months ago
oh boy!!!!! That makes me feel good.
skippy187ful 4 months ago
I could listen to Four Tops & Motown music 24/7! They're music will live forever on...thank goodness!
Pmr1957 5 months ago in playlist More videos from kindwolf1
SOMETHING about this SONG. as MOTOWN is....unexplainable...other than GOD to be the GLORY in JESUS name. but the ENERGY of this MUSIC is as satisfying TODAY as it was THEN. something about OBAMA...love him. Something about MOTOWN...LOVE IT. ALLLLLLLLL ABOUT GOD ALMIGHTYYYYYYYYY.
tofelt 5 months ago
Their hits were relentless in the 60's. It may be Motown made but this is rock & roll at its best. Credit the fantastic musicians backing the Four Tops because they really elevate it & support Levi Stubbs wonderfully. Their place in rock history is secure. Stubbs' vocals are right up there with the legends: Presley, Lennon, Dylan, Jagger, Morrison, Janis, Otis Redding, Ray Davies, Eric Burdon, Joe Cocker and anyone else you can think of that have survived for decades with a signature voice.
lastrada52 5 months ago
@lastrada52 I remember living in Philly in the mid-70's and WMMR, THE progressive rock station in the city....stuff like Wishbone Ash, The Fugs, Ry Cooder....they would play 'Something About You'....that's how great this song was and still is....
centralparocker 5 months ago
@lastrada52 Steve Marriott, who could sing just about anything with his unique vocal
SINGSTRESS100 1 month ago
@SINGSTRESS100 - Agreed. Steve Marriott. Excellent unique lead vocalist.
lastrada52 1 month ago
@lastrada52 Check out the Small Faces cover of If I Were a Carpenter. Its on YT :-)
SINGSTRESS100 1 month ago
Still want this song in 2011....... long live Motown!!!
MultiPattyc 6 months ago
The progressive station in Philly WMMR 93.3 would play this in the late 60's up until the mid-70's....that's how great this song is....!!!!
centralparocker 7 months ago
Fabulous Motown track. Really made for Levi's driving voice. Thanks for posting a "hidden" gem.
BelleVue1969 7 months ago
im 13 and i love this song, yet i hate every song made after 2000... awkward?
Victorious501 9 months ago
I LOVE THIS SONG!!! man,the rythem,the beat .used to dance in a line to this outstanding tune. i dunno,it kind of drives through the gut and into the soul. guess that's why it's called 'soul music'? doing it to us like only motown can...i swear this is the truth. thanks for sharing.
hotsauce4495 9 months ago
Love that guitar.
motorcityquig 11 months ago
Didn't some band cover this tune in the 80's? Great song, thanks!
zapdelivers 11 months ago
@zapdelivers Dave Edmunds (Rockpile) did a cover of it. Pretty good one, too.
tdelamont 11 months ago
Love that Holland-Dozier-Holland sound!
emmettk 11 months ago 2
October 1968.My older borther's date stood him up so he gave the tickets to me and my friend to see the Tops at Eastern Mich University. 8 rows from the stage. It was my first real concert. Man, these guys and their band the Funk Bros cooked that night. Even as a goofy 14 year old, I could see their greatness. We hung around the stage after the show and a couple of the Funk Bros joked with us and teased us. One kept asking us why we didn't have girlfriends. They were really cool.
motorcityquig 1 year ago 14
@motorcityquig Magic memories.
blindneep 4 months ago
@motorcityquig Great story !
TheHigh94 1 month ago
Released by Motown on October 21, 1965, and it peaked at Number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 around December of that year-
christheone8773 1 year ago
i got like number 69! woot!
Flipz5447 1 year ago
Maggott this song said it all,where are you know ? you are still the tops!!!
rollernick49 1 year ago
reminds me back in the day when I was a young hottie
Merl734 1 year ago
This brings back memories.......The 4 Tops were closed tp the Temps...
TheHoneyDip221 1 year ago
If anyone can put the Dave Edmunds cover version of this song on YOUTUBE it will be real cool!
BigbadChicagos 1 year ago
favorite four tops song!!!!!!!! 50s and 60s are awesome!!!! i am 37, and i feel cheated cause i didnt get to live those decades!!!!!!!!!!!
nittany1973 1 year ago
Nice song!
LesPaulGoldTop21 1 year ago
Takes me back to the 'Wheel'. Rocky from Liverpool in those days was my name. I'm still kicking around, Chredo8 nowadays.
Love to all the old Wheel boys and girls xx
Chredo8 1 year ago
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Takes me right back to the WHEEL. Love it,and all the old WHEEL crowd.
I'm still kicking around-Rocky from Liverpool, Chredo8 these days x
Chredo8 1 year ago
This tune was released by Motown on October 21, 1965 and it peaked at #19 on the Billboard Hot 100 in November of 1965-
christheone8773 1 year ago
So easy to forget just how good this music is and how lucky we are to have grown up with it.
voxrod 2 years ago 4
Four Tops
The Best .........EVER
Regards
Germany /BY
Haevygunner 2 years ago 2
10:17 WXXX much more music time! Rockin' out with Levi Stubbs and the Four Tops with our seventh heavy hit in a row. Ron Radio giving you Motown and more! Rock on!
VincentTPackhorse 2 years ago
hit the nail on the head,,, cant get better
jarradriva 2 years ago
Nothing today holds a candle to the powerful driving force of the sounds of the 60s. It is such a unique and variety of music that reflects a time when America was FABULOUS! Not that America isn't anymore..but it is going through some major stuff that is putting her to the test. We need to reinvigorate America with a sense of sound and feeling "again" with a sound that got us off our asses and gave us energy and drive in our everyday. It inspired our creativity and made us #1.
KittyPooKaBoomBoom 2 years ago 23
@KittyPooKaBoomBoom-And America was being tested in the 60's? Music was class but it was the only keeping america from having another civil war, hate the period love the music.
Umitencho 2 years ago
@KittyPooKaBoomBoom
That energy of the 60s was the sound of Baby Boomers raising hell. The movie, Animal House, comes about as close to the 60s goings on as anything yet produced. Unfortunately this generation has moved on in life and the music and perhaps some of you reading this are all that remain.
foneman1966 2 years ago
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@KittyPooKaBoomBoom I agree with you about the music but according to my mom and many the 60s where anything but Fabulous. Segregration and Racism was bigger than ever back then.
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@KittyPooKaBoomBoom shut the fuck up bitch
ryanasta 1 year ago
@KittyPooKaBoomBoom word
afmrahman 1 year ago
@KittyPooKaBoomBoom Like everything else in a forever changing world..we, as a country, are getting older..but that was the "Boomer Generation" of America..and "man" was it a generation! Thank God I was apart of it! That thundering beat in the song, in a sense, was America during that time!
billeagle51 1 year ago
@KittyPooKaBoomBoom AMENNNN. i plan to be that FORCE in JESUS name!!!
tofelt 6 months ago
@KittyPooKaBoomBoom Well said, amen.
Mikevac86 1 month ago
MAGNIFICENT from start to finish. always said that MOTOWN had the ABSOLUTE BEST SONG INTROS. lessons for all: START STRONG & the end should be just FINE. this song's start has that AMERICAN INDIAN feel to it.
tofelt 2 years ago 3
....a lot of white english bands would do this song live on stage.....(i know the "jam " was one)
dawaihawks 2 years ago
well being that you brought in the "white" card heres a little tidbit for ya the drummer on this and ALL their hits is a white dude Ralph Gallante AKA Larry Londin (his stage / studio name) he drummed on more motown hits then Bernard Purdy or any other drummer of that era
SOUTHPAW731 2 years ago
it's funny.......and i mean this in a positive tone that white english bands would do this song .....but not white american band's.......by the way ....."levi stubbs" is the king!
dawaihawks 2 years ago
"HANDS DOWN" "THIS IS GOLD"
billeagle51 2 years ago 3
Beautiful music. Thank you for posting it.
patie48nce 2 years ago 3
After The Temptations they are my second fav but you can sit still when you hear any of those bands
SaphireDisc 2 years ago
ALGO NO ME SALGO ???
ELRANDY11 2 years ago
oh this is just walking into what became known as - northern soul , but this was late 65 - 66 pure twisted wheel magic
ROYHEAD 2 years ago
i am BOB
LEBOBSKI25 2 years ago
Definate bums off the chairs song this ! Brill.
tonypilki3 3 years ago
thanks for the send bob
spiritladysoul 3 years ago 4
Who is BOB?
kindwolf1 3 years ago 4
@kindwolf1 Boaby is GOOD
felixcock 7 months ago
Oh! Good old "Motown-Bob".
kindwolf1 3 years ago 2
great dance track - always played at NS nights to a full floor x
Mezhouse 3 years ago
FOUR TOPS GOLD
motown250 3 years ago