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...great fun growing together in the music world. Even before coming to Motown, we did stints in Las Vegas, sang backup vocals for Billy Eckstine and performed several other musical feats...
...with the beginning of Motown, Levi's voice catapulted the Four Tops to heights we had never dreamed of, with such hits as "Baby I Need Your Loving," "Reach Out," "Bernadette," "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" and many more...
Fakir tours with a version of the Four Tops that includes two Motown veterans and Payton's son Roquel
...During much of the 1960s and '70s, Norman Whitfield wrote and produced more than a dozen hit songs for Motown Records and his independent label, including Marvin Gaye's "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and the Temptations' "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone." As one of Motown's most prolific and successful writers, he holds the title for penning the label's all-time best-selling single with "Grapevine...
...Producing many of the Stax hits of the '60s, Hayes and Porter helped define that studio's sound, which dispensed with the pop craftsmanship of Stax's main rival Motown Records and, taking inspiration from James Brown's mid-'60s ravers, revved up the motor of testosterone. For Sam & Dave they wrote the hits Hold On, I'm Coming and Soul Man. Both tunes are declarations of sexual prowess ready to explode. Get with the program, they said, or get out of the way. When first released, the songs were No. 1 R&B winners (Soul...