In the heyday of Top 40 radio, the DJ's featured something called "the battle of the bands".
It was one group against another, say The Beatles vs The Rolling Stones.
I always had real trouble picking a favorite when it was The Temptations vs The Four Tops. I loved both their music so much.
"Levi Stubbs, the gravelly-voiced, imploring lead singer of the Motown group the Four Tops, who stood out in 1960s pop classics like “Reach Out, I’ll Be There,” and “Bernadette,” died on Friday at his home here.
He was 72."
According to the news reports, Levi Stubbs had been ill for some time. Frankly, I had not seen anything new from The Four Tops in quite a few years.
The group's story is amazing:
"From 1964-1967, the Four Tops recorded some of the Holland-Dozier-Holland team's greatest compositions, including "Reach Out, I'll Be There," "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)," "Standing in the Shadows of Love," "Bernadette," and "Baby I Need Your Loving."
It's hard to pick a favorite from The Four Tops. So let me try "Ask the lonely", one of their smaller hits but still a great song:
"Just ask the lonely
When you feel that you can make it alone
Remember no one is big enough to go it alone
Just ask the lonely
They know the hurt and pain
Of losing a love you can never regain (Just ask the lonely)
Just ask the lonely
The young and foolish let Their love sway
and run away
How buckle and sure that fate
Will bring another love their way
But ask the lonely
How how badly a heart will burn
I want you to know that
will never return (Just ask the lonely)
Just ask the lonely They will tell you
They'll tell you a story of sadness
A story too hard to believe
And tell you the loneliest one is me (Just ask the lonely)
Just ask the lonely
Ask me I am the loneliest one, you'll see."
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