Four Tops Second Album (also known as Second Album) is
the second studio album by American R&B 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 the Billboard Top LPs chart. The album contains 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" reached 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 titled Four Tops/Four Tops Second Album.
Contents
Track listing
All songs written by Holland–Dozier–Holland (Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland), unless otherwise noted.
Side 1
"I Can't Help Myself" – 2:45
"Love Feels Like Fire" – 2:08
"Is There Anything That I Can Do" (Warren "Pete" Moore, Smokey Robinson, Ronald White) – 3:07
"Something About You" – 2:44
"It's the Same Old Song" – 2:51
"Helpless" – 2:46
Side 2
"Just as Long as You Need Me" – 3:12
"Darling, I Hum Our Song" – 2:44
"I Like Everything About You" – 2:21
"Since You've Been Gone" – 2:33
"Stay in My Lonely Arms" – 2:21
"I'm Grateful" (Eddie Holland, Cleo Drake, George Fowler) – 2:37
Personnel
Performance
Levi Stubbs – lead baritone vocals (except tracks 2 and 11); backing vocals (tracks 2 and 11)
Abdul Fakir – first tenor backing vocals
Renaldo Benson – bass backing vocals
Lawrence Payton – second tenor backing vocals (except tracks 2 and 11); lead vocals (tracks 2 and 11); keyboard
The Andantes – backing vocals
Instrumentation by the Funk Brothers