FOUR TOPS SECOND ALBUM
Four Tops Second Album (also known as Second Album) is a 1965 R&B studio album by vocal quartet the Four Tops. The album, released on the Motown record label, reached No. 3 on Billboard’s “Black Albums” chart and No. 20 on “Pop Albums”. The album contained three hit singles. “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” reached No. 1 on both the “Black Singles” and “Pop Singles” charts, while “It’s The Same Old Song” was No. 2 and No. 5 respectively, and “Something About You” reached No. 9 and No. 19. In 1990, Motown bundled the Four Tops first two albums together in a release entitled Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album. (More from Wikipedia)
Holland-Dozier-Holland is a songwriting powerhouse; besides writing some of Motown’s best-known hits, they wrote most of the songs on entire albums for some of the biggest stars on the label. For the Four Tops, Four Tops Second Album (1965) included two of the group’s best known hit songs, “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” and “It’s The Same Old Song” that were both penned by Holland-Dozier-Holland; in all, they wrote 10 of the 12 songs on the album.
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