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| I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch), Reach Out I'll Be There, It's The Same Old Song, Baby I Need Your Loving, Bernadette, etc. |
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| 1 Reach Out (I'll Be There) |
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| 2 Standing in the Shadows of Love |
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| 3 Bernadette |
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| 4 Ask the Lonely |
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| 5 Baby I Need Your Loving |
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| 6 Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worthwhile) |
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| 7 It's the Same Old Song |
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| 8 Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever |
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| 9 I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch) |
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| 10 Something About You |
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| 11 I Got a Feeling |
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| 12 I'm in a Different World |
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| 13 Walk Away Renee |
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| 14 What Is a Man? |
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| 15 A Simple Game |
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| 16 Still Water (Love) |
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| 17 (It's the Way) Nature Planned It |
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| 18 It's All in the Game |
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| 19 You Keep Running Away |
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| 20 If You Don't Want My Love |
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| 21 7-Rooms of Gloom |
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| 22 I'll Turn to Stone |
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| 23 Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over) |
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| 24 Sad Souvenirs |
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| 25 Yesterday's Dreams |
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Album Review
"The Ultimate Collection" series was a rare success from Motown, one of the first of the label's many compilation series to do justice to some of the finest performers, arrangers, and musicians of the soul era. Nearly every artist with an entry was given the luxury treatment, with a disc-filling running time, excellent compilation decisions, and a pleasing design scheme that reflected the artists in their prime. The Four Tops' entry is arguably the best in the series, since the 25 tracks prove the perfect length to summarize the group's decade at Motown. From 1963 to 1972, the group reached the R&B charts 28 times, and all but a very few are presented here (among the missing are three decidedly unnecessary covers: "Macarthur Park," "If I Were A Carpenter," and "River Deep -- Mountain High"). Though the tracks aren't presented chronologically, thoughtful sequencing makes for an even better listen; "The Ultimate Collection" opens with "Reach Out (I'Ll Be There)," perhaps the ultimate pop single of the '60s, and flows smoothly through the best of their 1964-1967 prime: "Baby I Need Your Loving," "I Can'T Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)," "It'S The Same Old Song," "Bernadette," and "Standing In The Shadows Of Love." And though the hits began to dry up after the Holland-Dozier-Holland machine departed Motown in 1968, the Four Tops' later years are represented well with "It'S All In The Game," "Still Water (Love)," "(It'S The Way) Nature Planned It," and the driving non-album hit "A Simple Game." Unless you're the type of fan who needs the box set (2001's "Fourever"), this is all the Four Tops-on-Motown you really need to hear. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
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