The Four Tops

Rock & Roll Hall of Famer

Category: Performer

Inducted: 1990

Inducted by: Stevie Wonder

Nominated: 1989   1990

First Eligible: 1986 Ceremony

Inducted Members: Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Lawrence Payton and Levi Stubbs

Induction Ceremony Songs:

SongPerformed By
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)  The Four Tops and Diana Ross
Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 1991 (ranked #100) .
R.S. Top 500 Albums (?)RankVersion
Reach Out4292020
R.S. Top 500 Songs (?)RankVersion
Reach Out (I'll Be There) (1967)782021
I Can't Help Myself (1965)4832021
Essential Albums (?)WikiVinylYouTube
Second Album (1965)☆ ☊
Reach Out (1967)☆ ☊
Four Tops Now! (1969)☆ ☊
Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Baby I Need Your Loving (1964)☆☊
I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) (1965)☆☊
It's the Same Old Song (1965)☆☊
Reach Out I'll Be There (1966)☆☊
Standing in the Shadows of Love (1966)☆☊
Bernadette (1967)☆☊
Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got) (1972)☆☊

The Four Tops @ Wikipedia


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The Four Tops are one of the few R&B groups that have received The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award .

Did you know that in December 1988, The Tops had actually been scheduled to board Pan Am Flight 103 to return to the U.S. for Christmas after completing their European tour. However, they were late getting out of a recording session and overslept, causing them to miss the ill-fated flight which crashed in Lockerbie, Scotland, after a terrorist bomb was detonated on board [Whew]!!!

The Four Tops were together, and remained together for an incredible 44 years,from 1953 until 1997,with all of the original members,that's over four decades, having gone without a single change in personnel during that time...a record that, to my knowledge, remains unbroken to this day.

Posted by Bill G on Monday, 01/20/2014 @ 21:20pm

INDESTRUCTIBLE

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 07/3/2016 @ 15:41pm

Abdul "Duke" Fakir will turn 85 in December.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 08/13/2020 @ 05:15am

RIP ABDUL DUKE FAKIR

Posted by Will m on Monday, 07/22/2024 @ 15:45pm

RIP Abdul "Duke" Fakir.

Posted by J.W. on Monday, 07/22/2024 @ 22:16pm

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