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	45s.com - The Four Tops - Recording artist information: The Four Tops - 45 RPM Records -- Search for records, 45-rpm-records -- vinyl records from 1950 to 1990.
		Levi Stubbs, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Lawrence Payton, Abdul "Duke" Fakir.
		The Detroit-based vocal group - consisting of lead vocalist Levi Stubbs, first tenor Abdul "Duke" Fakir, second tenor Lawrence Payton and baritone Renaldo "Obie" Benson - began singing together as the Four Aims soon after graduating high school in 1954.
		Periodically, they found themselves back on the charts during the Seventies and Eighties with such hits as "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I Got)" and "When She Was My Girl." After the death of Payton in 1997, the remaining members continue to perform as the Tops.
	www.45s.com /artists/four-tops.htm

	Ain't no story like the one they've got - 07/22/04
		The Four Tops, from right, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Levi Stubbs and the late Lawrence Payton, in a Motown promo shot from the mid-1960s.
		It was actually 51 years ago, in 1953, that Fakir, Stubbs, Payton and Benson first started singing together as high school students (Fakir and Stubbs at Pershing, Payton and Benson at Northern).
		Original Top Renaldo “Obie” Benson is still with the group; Ronnie McNair replaced the late Lawrence Payton, and now former Temptation Theo Peoples fills in for Stubbs on lead vocals.
	www.detnews.com /2004/events/0407/22/e01-219276.htm

	RollingStone.com: The Four Tops : Four Tops' Benson Dies : News
		Born in Detroit in 1936, bass vocalist Benson teamed with Levi Stubbs, Abdul (Duke) Fakir and Lawrence Payton in 1954 to form the Four Tops.
		Stubbs left the group in 2000 after suffering some health problems, but Benson, Fakir and two replacement Tops celebrated the group's fiftieth anniversary last year.
		The lineup remained intact for forty-three years, until Payton's death in 1997.
	rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/7467854/thefourtops?rssfeed=musicnews

	4tops2003.html
		High school friends from Detroit's North End, Levi Stubbs, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Abdul "Duke" Fakir and Lawrence Payton started playing parties as the Four Aims, as they were aiming for the top.
		Lawrence and Duke served as producers on other music projects, Obie co-wrote " What's Going On?" with Marvin Gaye and Levi was the voice of the man-eating plant, Audrey 11 in the movie, "Little Shop of Horrors ".
		In June of 1997, Lawrence Pyton died of liver cancer.
	www.producersinc.com /artists/4tops/4tops2003.html

	LasVegas.com - The Four Tops, Temptations
		The original members of the group, which was elected to the hall of fame in 1990, include Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Levi Stubbs and Lawrence Payton.
		The Four Tops united in 1954 but didn't take their name until '59, when they started to make some inroads into the recording business.
		The Four Tops dedicate all of their performances to the memory of Payton.
	www.lasvegas.com /searchagent/event/SearchResultView.do?id=8020 (380 words)

	The Four Tops Tribute Website, Levi Stubbs, Abdul Duke Fakir, Renaldo Obie Benson, Lawrence Payton, Theo Peoples, Ronnie McNair
		The Four Tops Tribute Website, Levi Stubbs, Abdul Duke Fakir, Renaldo Obie Benson, Lawrence Payton, Theo Peoples, Ronnie McNair
	fourtopsforever.com (19 words)

	The Four Tops - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clockwise from top: Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Lawrence Payton, Levi Stubbs, and Renaldo "Obie" Benson.
		Four Tops records often represented the epitome of the Motown Sound: simple distinctive melodies and rhymes, call-and-response lyrics, and the musical contributions of The Funk Brothers.
		August 1966 brought the release of the Four Tops' biggest hit, and one of the most popular Motown songs ever: "Reach Out I'll Be There", which hit #1 on the U.S. pop charts and soon became The Tops' signature song.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Four_Tops (2108 words)

	Collins' Oldies Website: The Four Tops
		The group had the same four members--Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Lawrence Payton, and lead singer Levi Stubbs--until Lawrence's death of liver cancer in 1997.
		Bernadette (3:02) - Most of the time the instruments and backing overpower Levi's voice, but I can tell that the narrator is begging Bernadette not to leave him for some other man. I can also tell in one verse that he asks her how other men can control her when they can't control themselves.
		If I Were A Carpenter (2:50) - The narrator asks his girlfriend if she would still marry and have children by him if he were poor and she were rich.
	www.srv.net /~roxtar/four_tops.html (1257 words)

	Four Tops' 'Obie' Benson Dies
		Benson's death leaves two surviving members of the original group: Levi Stubbs and Abdul "Duke" Fakir.
		July 05, 2005, 10:30 AM ET Renaldo "Obie" Benson, a member of the legendary Motown singing group the Four Tops, died Friday at a Detroit hospital.
		The fourth original Top, Lawrence Payton, died of liver cancer in 1997.
	www.billboard.com /bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000973043 (311 words)

	Epinions.com - LEVI STUBBLES, RENALDO OBIE BENSON, ABDUL DUKE FAKIR & LAWRENCE PAYTON - THE FOUR TOPS
		Leonard is the President of "Chess" records and agrees to sign the group to a contract on the condition that Davis becomes a company staff writer.
		In May of 1956 Lawrence's cousin "Roquel Billy Davis" sends 3 demo songs by the group, "All My Life", "Could It Be You" and "Kiss Me Baby" to "Leonard Chess" in Chicago.
		In July UK singer "Billy Braggs" releases a tribute single to Levi titled "Levi Stubbs' Tears" and it peaks at #29 in the UK.
	www.epinions.com /content_4159611012 (311 words)

	FOUR TOPS, The : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music
		US soul vocal quartet formed as the Four Aims '53 in Detroit, lineup unchanging for nearly half a century: Levi Stubbs, lead; Abdul 'Duke' Fakir, Renaldo 'Obie' Benson, Lawrence Payton (b '38; d 20 June '97).
		Payton's cousin Billy Davis had written hits for Jackie Wilson (with whom Stubbs had sung in the Royals before joining the other Tops); he introduced them to co-writer Berry Gordy, who signed them up.
		First release Breaking Through on Motown's Workshop label was jazzish LP in Hi-Los vein, but after a year on the road with the Billy Eckstine revue they worked as backing singers on Motown's first hits, then teamed with Holland/Dozier/Holland, the fast-rising Motown writing/prod.
	www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/f/F71.HTM (311 words)

	THE FOUR TOPS
		Levi Stubbs, Jr., Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Lawrence Payton, and Abdul "Duke" Fakir were teenage school friends in their native Detroit when they joined together in a singing group called the Aims.
		Lawrence Payton died of liver cancer on 20 June, 1997.
		Their hit-making days behind them, they remain a solid concert act with a repertoire of favorites and a catalogue that continues to be repackaged successfully.
	www.angelfire.com /co/helper/fourtops.html (311 words)

	Power94.com - THE FOUR TOPS CELEBRATE 50 YEARS
		Levi Stubbs, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, and Lawrence Payton will mark their 50th year in show business on July 28 with an all-star concert at the Detroit Opera House.
		USA Today is reporting that the Four Tops will be celebrating 50 years together in an entertaining way.
		The concert, which will air on Omni Broadcasting Network this fall, will feature the Tops as well as Aretha Franklin, Mary Wilson, New Edition, Sam Moore and the Temptations Revue featuring Dennis Edwards.
	www.power94.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=1121 (311 words)

	Epinions.com - LEVI STUBBLES, RENALDO OBIE BENSON, ABDUL DUKE FAKIR & LAWRENCE PAYTON - THE FOUR TOPS
		Their style and sound meshed together so well that they met again at Abdul's house the very next day to practice and they decide to form their own group calling themselves "The Four Aims".
		Leonard is the President of "Chess" records and agrees to sign the group to a contract on the condition that Davis becomes a company staff writer.
		They next provide the song "Loco In Acapulco" for the "David Green" directed UK Action Crime Drama "Buster" starring "Phil Collins", "Julie Walters", "Larry Lamb", "Stephanie Lawrence", "Ellen Beaven" and others.
	www.epinions.com /content_4159611012 (311 words)

	Encyclopedia: Four Tops
		Stubbs and Abdul "Duke" Fakir met Renaldo "Obie" Benson and Lawrence Payton in 1953 and began calling themselves The Four Aims.
		Payton had a cousin named Roquel Davis, a songwriter and occasional singer, who helped the group sign to Chess Records in 1956.
		Their sound was unique for having a deep-voiced lead singer, Levi Stubbs -- most groups of the time were fronted by a tenor.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Four-Tops (311 words)

	96.5 KOIT - Artists
		Only the death of Lawrence Payton in 1997 broke up the quartet that formed in 1953, when its members -- Levi Stubbs, Jr., Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Abdul "Duke" Fakir and Payton-- were still in high school.
		In contrast to many of their fellow Motown legends, many of whose careers approached soap-opera status in their turbulent atmosphere, epic feuds and emotion-charged personnel changes, the Four Tops were noteworthy not just for their hits and sweet sound but for their stability as a group.
		It took them 10 years to get signed to Motown, but in 1964 their first hit, "Baby, I Need Your Loving," was the beginning of a long string of successes.
	www2.koit.com /spring/artist_bio_detail.cfm?id=159 (311 words)

	Seattle Weekly: Music: Smallmouth: Whose Song Is That? by Douglas Wolk
		Abdul “Duke” Fakir has been one of the Four Tops since the group formed 50 years ago.
		It’s also partly because, more than any other group, the Four Tops were shaped by the Motown machine.) But who’s he singing for—whose words are those, and whose thoughts, and whose melody?
		The song itself is by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Edward Holland Jr., a three-person entity that also wrote hits for the Supremes and others, and usually went by a shorter name of its own: Holland-Dozier-Holland, or H-D-H. So who’s responsible for “Reach Out,” ultimately?
	www.seattleweekly.com /features/0410/040310_music_smallmouth.php (731 words)

	Theo Peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, new Top Ronnie McNair, and Roquel Payton, son of the late Lawrence Payton, continue to tour and perform.
		The son of a preacher, he was discovered by Ron Tyson and tapped to replace Richard Street in the long-lived Motown group The Temptations in 1992.
		Peoples eventually left The Temptations in 1998, and ended up joining another classic-era Motown act, The Four Tops.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theo_Peoples (130 words)

	Motown legends pay respect to Top - 07/09/05
		Tops Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Ronnie McNair, Theo Peoples and Roquel Payton were among the pallbearers.
		They were accompanied by newer Tops Theo Peoples, Ronnie McNair and Roquel Payton (son of the late Lawrence Payton).
		Four Tops lead singer Levi Stubbs, seated at right, watches as his friend and colleague Renaldo "Obie" Benson's casket is carried from the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit Friday.
	www.detnews.com /2005/metro/0507/09/D01-241794.htm (829 words)

	Station Avenue Productions with The Four Tops
		The Four Tops: Levi Stubbs, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, and Lawrence Payton had been together for 43 years, constantly producing songs about love, happiness, and romantic heartbreak in the quintessential Detroit sound/Motown tradition.
		Upon the death of Lawrence Payton in 1998, Theo Peoples took Lawrence's spot.
		No other popular quartet has stayed together with original personnel intact for as long as the legendary Four Tops.
	www.stationave.com /bios.fourtops.html (131 words)

	Concert acts wow festival crowds
		Original member Abdul “Duke” Fakir served as the emcee while contributing his vocal talents to the Four Tops’ trademark harmonies.
		Theo Peoples and Ronnie McNeir, who replaced two of the original Four Tops in 1999, sang lead on many of the hit songs.
		The Four Tops took the crowd of 7,000 people back to the Golden Age of Motown, performing a 75-minute set packed with hits from their 50-year career.
	www.gaffneyledger.com /news/2005/0718/front_page/001.html (609 words)

	The NEC Group / Media / necgroup.co.uk
		Ronaldo Benson and Abdul "Duke" Fakir form the original line-up with the Four Tops are joined by Theo Peoples and Lewis McNeir.
		Legendary Motown bands The Four Tops and Temptations are set to embark on a brand new UK tour, which includes a date at The NIA Academy on Friday 11 November.
		Four Tops classics bound to be performed on the night include I Can’t Help Myself, Bernadette, Standing in the Shadows of Love and Don’t Walk Away.
	www.necgroup.co.uk /media/PressRelease.asp?i=884 (267 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Motown magic: It's the same old song — and the ladies (and fellas) were loving it
		Two of the original Four Tops, Renaldo (Obie) Benson and Abdul (Duke) Fakir, remain, and both were still super cool, singing with class and style.
		Peoples has a warm soul voice that he used to best advantage in a non-Tops song, "Always and Forever," originally by Heat Wave.
		But the youngest member, the tall and handsome Theo Peoples, carried most of the set and charmed the ladies more than all the other singers combined.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2001987171_temptops24.html (482 words)

	The Four Tops - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clockwise from top: Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Lawrence Payton, Levi Stubbs, and Renaldo "Obie" Benson.
		By this point, The Tops were the most successful male Motown act in the United Kingdom (in the United States, they were second to The Temptations), and began experimenting with cover versions of more mainstream pop hits.
		Four Tops records often represented the epitome of the Motown Sound: simple yet distinctive melodies and rhymes, call-and-response lyrics, and the musical contributions of The Funk Brothers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Four_Tops (482 words)

	Epinions.com - LEVI STUBBLES, RENALDO OBIE BENSON, ABDUL DUKE FAKIR & LAWRENCE PAYTON - THE FOUR TOPS
		They have one album on the charts this year with "The Four Tops On Top" that was released in September and peaks at #32 on the pop chart and peaks at #3 on the R&B chart.
		The single was released on 30 October and peaked at #71 pop and at #7 R&B. The album was released the next month and peaked at #124 on the pop chart and at #26 on the R&B chart.
		Their only album on the charts this year was "Yesterday's Dreams" that peaked at #91 on the pop chart, at #37 in the UK and all the way to #7 on the US R&B chart.
	www.epinions.com /content_4159611012 (482 words)

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