Four Tops' Second Album (also known as Second Album) is a 1965 R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 studio album by vocal quartet the Four Tops

Four Tops

The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, hard rock, and showtunes...

. The album, released on the Motown record label, was successful, reaching #3 on Billboard's

Billboard (magazine)

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 "Black Albums

Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums

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" chart and #20 on "Pop Albums

Billboard 200

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". The album contained three hit singles. "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" reached #1 on both the "Black Singles

Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs

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" and "Pop Singles

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" charts, while "It's The Same Old Song

It's the Same Old Song

"It's the Same Old Song" is a 1965 hit single recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song is today one of The Tops' signature songs, and was notably created—from initial concept to commercial...

" was #2 and #5 respectively, and "Something About You" reached #9 and #19. In 1990, Motown bundled the Four Tops first two albums together in a release entitled Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album.

Track listing

Except where otherwise noted, all songs composed by Lamont Dozier

Lamont Dozier

Lamont Herbert Dozier is an American songwriter and record producer, born in Detroit, Michigan. Dozier has either co-written or produced several US Billboard #1 hits.-Career:...

, Brian Holland

Brian Holland

Brian Holland is an American songwriter and record producer, best known as a member of Holland–Dozier–Holland. That songwriting and production team that was responsible for much of the Motown sound and numerous hit records by artists such as Martha and the Vandellas, The Supremes, The Four Tops,...

 and Eddie Holland.

1. "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
   I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
   "I Can't Help Myself " is a 1965 hit song recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label.Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song is one of the most well-known Motown tunes of the 1960s...
   
   " – 2:45
2. "Love Feels Like Fire" – 2:08
3. "Is There Anything That I Can Do" (Warren "Pete" Moore, Smokey Robinson
   Smokey Robinson
   William "Smokey" Robinson, Jr. is an American R&B singer-songwriter, record producer, and former record executive. Robinson is one of the primary figures associated with Motown, second only to the company's founder, Berry Gordy...
   
   , Ronald White
   Ronald White
   Ronald "Ronnie" White was an African American soul singer and songwriter, notable as a founding member of The Miracles, and the only member to survive all of that group's line-up changes...
   
   ) – 3:07
4. "Something About You" – 2:44
5. "It's the Same Old Song
   It's the Same Old Song
   "It's the Same Old Song" is a 1965 hit single recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland–Dozier–Holland, the song is today one of The Tops' signature songs, and was notably created—from initial concept to commercial...
   
   " – 2:51
6. "Helpless" – 2:46
7. "Just as Long as You Need Me" – 3:12
8. "Darling, I Hum Our Song" – 2:44
9. "I Like Everything About You" – 2:21
10. "Since You've Been Gone" – 2:33
11. "Stay in My Lonely Arms" – 2:21
12. "I'm Grateful" (Leo Drake, George Fowler, Eddie Holland) – 2:37

Performance

• Renaldo Benson – vocals
  Singing
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• Abdul Fakir – vocals
• Lawrence Payton
  Lawrence Payton
  Lawrence Albert Payton was an American tenor, songwriter and record producer for the popular Motown quartet, the Four Tops....
  
   – keyboard, vocals
• Levi Stubbs
  Levi Stubbs
  Levi Stubbles , better known by the stage name Levi Stubbs, was an American baritone singer, best known as the lead vocalist of the Motown R&B group Four Tops...
  
   – lead vocals
• Instrumentation by the Funk Brothers

External links

• Four Tops' Second Album at MTV
  MTV
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  , with lyrics