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 | | Chess changed the quartet's name to the Four Tops to avoid confusion with the better-known vocal group, the Ames Brothers, but subsequent records for Red Top, Riverside and Columbia were commercially unsuccessful. |
 | | However, the Four Tops remained in demand on the nightclub circuit, singing jazz and pop standards, and, by the early 1960s, they were playing venues in New York and Las Vegas, usually supporting such stars as Billy Eckstine and Count Basie. |
 | | By the mid-1970s, however, their urbane style was out of step with new trends in fl pop music, though they remained in demand as concert and nightclub performers in both the US and Europe. |
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