My Inner Supreme Mourns

Levi Stubbs passed away last week. The Four Tops were a bunch of good guys. If you had to compare guy groups in the Motown family...The Four Tops were the "nice guys" and the Temptations were the "bad boys".
Levi Stubbs had a voice - recognizable thru the years. "Reach out and I'll be there" is a classic, as well as "Baby I need your Lovin" and "Suzanne" is pretty powerful. Berry Gordy gave the man props by saying he had phrasing like Frank Sinatra. Phrasing is a gift. You just can't sing a song...you have to SING it. Some people have to work on this...some people have been gifted.

Now for those of you that don't know the Four Tops...you will recognize his voice as Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors. Ahh...what a voice

And thank you, Billy Bragg:

When the world falls apart some things stay in place

She takes off the Four Tops tape and puts it back in its case

When the world falls apart some things stay in place

Levi Stubbs' tears...