Four Tops vs Temptations (Motown Live Show)

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Four Tops vs Temptations
(LIVE Motown Show)
Official Sites:
The Four Tops
www.thefourtopsoriginal.com
The Temptations
www.thetemptations.com
Syndicated Radio Show:
www.grandstrandshow.com

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@johnnyd5285 3 жыл бұрын

I’m a 73 year old white man, and if anything ever brought us together was this music. Don’t let the politicians drive us apart!

@thaddeusrattley 3 жыл бұрын

Amen

@user-jj2ud4nf1v 2 ай бұрын

Best music 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 ever 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 and bless you 🙏🏼 I'm behind you At 70😂❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@khalidfalvey4148 Ай бұрын

Can I just ask what has colour got to do with anything?? In my world we are all the same

@johnnyd5285 Ай бұрын

@@khalidfalvey4148 This music, Motown, started around 1960, when the south was still segregated. Music was segregated, black stations played music by black artists, and white stations played white artists. This music crossed over and black and white fans loved it. The radio was forced to play it. Blacks and whites had a common thing they loved, the music. It brought us together. It was the start of integration. How do you not know this?

@iminthe70stang Ай бұрын

This is just the absolute best!

@kactusboi5880 3 жыл бұрын

More talent on one stage than in all of Hollywood today!

@u4riahsc 3 жыл бұрын

True that! Lots and lots of hours of practice to be that good.

@tonigreen7004 2 жыл бұрын

You got that right!!!!!

@debiowens3310 2 жыл бұрын

So very very true. Just God-given talent.

@CreationsVibration 2 жыл бұрын

Cancel Hollywood

@sharoncallanan2477 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely ❤️

@davidwhite8669 4 жыл бұрын

These songs defined my love life during the 60's. I am a 72 year old white guy who just loves Motown. I used to sing My Girl to the lady that became my wife every chance I got. We loved, laughed, and cried as these songs helped define us. Thank you so very much for sunshine on a cloudy day. Motown forever!!!

@joetx2433 2 жыл бұрын

I am a 73 y/o Latino guy and use to do the same, sing to my girl back then, but we are still very good friends with really good memories of the years. Fantastic Music from two of my favorite groups. Love to all.

@mfb3042 2 жыл бұрын

Living through history. Didn't know it at the time.

@ayndowney9401 Жыл бұрын

I am so glad to know and understand that music has been a melting point for so many generations of conscious people, let's just say it great music is just that great talented artist singing from their 💜❤️ heart, soul and excited to be alive!

@lisahayes181 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful story. I am 61 and was raised on MOTOWN. We had the best hair, cars, music, dance and the best love for someone. Never again to be eclipsed.

@jamiemercer6847 Жыл бұрын

I've commented before but I want 2 comment again simply and completely sensational

@lewiscarey1593 2 жыл бұрын

Outside of M.J. doing his Moonwalk: this was the most talked about performance!! Truly breathtaking! No politics, swearing, stripping off their clothes, just doing what they knew best! SING IT BROTHERS!! SING IT!! Audience reaction?? PRICELESS! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@ramoncook8480 Жыл бұрын

Sanging. Yes I said Sanging!!

@StreetHierarchy Жыл бұрын

Repression

@davidfuller4110 Жыл бұрын

I would rather watch this than the 2023 Oscars.

@bigbopper6434 Жыл бұрын

Nothing but Talent vs Talent... That's all these guys were was nothing but Talent. I would love to see the two of them decide a World War!!! We would die happy people. GOD bless us all!

@Mma-basement-215 10 ай бұрын

Man this was amazing 2 great male bands of all time on stage at the same time like this I'm literally in aww freaking awesome

@dankajura6098 6 жыл бұрын

These guys had no grudges , they loved each other despite the fame and pomp each of the groups had during the 60's &70's. wow!!! look at Dennis Edwards giving Stubbs that warm and bortherly hug!

@andreasimonet2883 Жыл бұрын

I really really love My Motown. Till the day I die 😇🥰🤩😍😁xxxxxx I'm 66

@andreasimonet2883 Жыл бұрын

I always want my music

@songspiritUSA 7 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest musical performances in history, and some of the greatest American music ever.

@ChrisSmallman1981 4 жыл бұрын

agree

@foreverwise999 3 жыл бұрын

And they prove it !

@chrisdavis7792 3 жыл бұрын

Truly timeless!

@williamshea4425 3 жыл бұрын

No doubt.

@REDBEANS22 2 жыл бұрын

Can't stop watching it. LOVE IT!!!!

@Imapeach1 5 жыл бұрын

It is utterly IMPOSSIBLE to make a choice between these two iconic groups,so I ain't gonna...every man up there,jaw-droppingly talented,every song....a national treasure,IMHO,....there isn't a Motown song that somebody DOESN'T know....we know them,we sing them,they are legendary! Also,isn't it true,that sometimes one just NEEDS to hear some Motown?

@cooallen1570 2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely correct

@dougfunnie2541 2 жыл бұрын

Temptations easy

@hybrid5568 2 жыл бұрын

Both. I loved em both and others.

@Ebd1990 Жыл бұрын

@@dougfunnie2541 not easily because the four tops are killing it too

@LadiesandGentlemenHRH Жыл бұрын

Been listening to Motown for the past week. I’m a 90s kid but I loooove the beautiful music from the 60s and 70s ❤

@chriskelly5099 Жыл бұрын

I am in heaven ….. never seen this before …. I am 64 and feeling 16 …… thank you ❤

@Gustamachio 6 жыл бұрын

No auto-tune, all Talent. These days are long gone, so sad

@wandastevenson7124 2 жыл бұрын

This is the music u love and want to get up and dance..love it..

@joetx2433 2 жыл бұрын

@@wandastevenson7124 for sure!!!!

@hiltonbailey9671 6 жыл бұрын

Levi stubbs had one of the most unique voices of all time

@luislogrono5367 Жыл бұрын

BREATH TAKING!! here we are in 2023 and nothing like these 2 groups and their performances has been done. This right here speaks to the testament and impact this music / musicians have left in history. Beautiful!!!!

@martynrobinson9660 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely 🤗

@violapinkgin 11 ай бұрын

MOTOWN music will be remembered. Even now singers are now singing old crooner music as they're aging! It's past to be remembered!

@janetstevens6051 7 ай бұрын

Still brilliant! Not just the singing performance but the orchestral backing! Have been listening to this music for the last 60 years and never tire of it.

@philbrown1474 3 жыл бұрын

Levi Stubbs and Dennis Edwards were, to me, the best male lead singers that Motown ever produced. This clip is a historical gem that shows 2 groups at their peaks. Never to be replicated.

@elisageorge1798 2 жыл бұрын

David Ruffin ,Phillipe Wynne

@perhansson7958 2 жыл бұрын

No doubt!

@josephwallace3625 2 жыл бұрын

Eddie Kendricks

@elisageorge1798 2 жыл бұрын

@@josephwallace3625 Oh yeah ..None back then thru today could sing like Eddie. Unique voice! When heard you knew it was Eddie.. Continue Riparadise Greats 🙏🏽

@QuicknStraight 2 жыл бұрын

@@elisageorge1798 Levi Stubbs had the most unique voice in Motown. That baritone sound was incredible.

@blkdeath 9 жыл бұрын

I'm a middle aged white guy and was blasting and singing these.....friggin awesome....love Motown. When we were teenagers in the late 80's me and 3-4 of my friends used to jam this stuff during keg parties(Chicago area) and start singing. People thought we were nuts

@booksxbritttv 3 жыл бұрын

It's beautiful the way music brings everyone together. My best friend is white and I fell in love with her family when I went to her grandparents home and saw they had the original motown records.

@visionquest414 3 жыл бұрын

what difference does it make f you're white? Music is music

@denisburgess2966 2 жыл бұрын

Great acts sad to say there is only one original member of each group that's still alive

@user-tc8oo8ik3q 2 жыл бұрын

No you are not nuts i was dancing to this music back in the 70s in the UK my generation was into this type of music back than plus we were dancing to Northern soul too which was rare soul records that the djs brought from the USA Northern soul started in the North of England that's how Northern soul was born in the untied kingdom we had alnighters where kids could go to dance to Northern soul back than it is still a big thing over here we still have motown and Northern soul events around the UK and its being past down to the kids its very popular over here in the UK we take it very seriously we have our own unique way of dancing to motown and Northern soul both dancer's are very similar but with northern soul it's more high kicks and back drops and spins watch a Northern soul dance on KZfaq we also have aldayers and weekenders too motown and Northern soul has never died over here motown started over here in the 60s with the mods and motown was popular with smoothies has we were known in the 70s we were like mods but with Northern soul they are known has soul boys and girls im now a soul girl because im into Northern soul but i was a smoothly back in the 70s

@mercybutler3636 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for supporting the Temptations

@1tderry 7 жыл бұрын

I had grown up on this music. No color, just music. I respect both!

@craigcraig5731 2 жыл бұрын

There was always color. Most of these artists had to use the back entrance to perform.

@kimberlywhite7072 2 жыл бұрын

Oh you see color. That's why you had to make the "I see no color" comment. These were very talented black young men who were mistreated but still overcame in spite of, to become successful artists. Oh you see color. You'd see it if they were walking down the street and not holding a microphone in their hands.

@aimannorzahariwod 2 жыл бұрын

Of course a white guy like you will say "No color, just music." The color component will always be there mate. These guys performed at the height of discrimination and perservered. Don't discount the color component as It's an important part of the REAL story.

@kennygreig456 2 жыл бұрын

@@aimannorzahariwod As a white guy may I say of course the colour component should always be there, without meaning to cause offense. The reason I say that is if I were black I'd be damned proud of Motown and all the extremely talented artists that came through there. These 2 and The Drifters I adore the most with Sugar Pie Honey Bunch that cherry on top for me, only improvement being it could be 5 mins longer.

@anitadatta5948 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sad because we will never see such talent again ! Absolute heaven listening to two of the topmost groups in the world.

@user-om3df3jw9l 8 ай бұрын

So very true.👏🏼👏🏼♥️♥️😊💪👌🥰

@chrissaenz6213 7 ай бұрын

We will never see a group yelling on stage, ever again?

@mitchellmcdowell8546 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a 59 year old white guy, and I just nearly danced myself into cardiac failure while listening to this video. Can you possibly imagine the damage I could have inflicted on myself if I were an older person of colour? Absolutely tremendously good music. Timeless. Enduringly invigorating. I'm so thankful to you for posting this!

@buck2.050 9 ай бұрын

May GOD BLESS you

@tainaayiti 9 ай бұрын

How do you dance to this lol,?

@SkatesPraise 9 ай бұрын

@@tainaayiti😂wth do you mean?.

@chrissaenz6213 8 ай бұрын

Oh look at you and your pity for black people.

@brucestaples4510 8 ай бұрын

@@tainaayiti Ya just put more cut in your strut, More glide in your stride, And if ya don't dig it, Ya got a hole in yer soul, And ya don't eat chicken on Sunday! So turn out the light and hold me tight And push, girl, push! - Frankie Crocker

@thekitkatmanblack1st 7 жыл бұрын

Dammmmmmmnnnnnnn, this needs to be placed in a time capsule! The future can not afford to miss out on all this goodness, it must be share. So many good memories.

@sanweinstein5342 3 жыл бұрын

Greatest special ever -Motown 25 llegendary!!

@paulkendrick561 3 жыл бұрын

To right.

@williamshea4425 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@alfredthaddeus2137 2 жыл бұрын

i know im asking randomly but does someone know a method to log back into an instagram account?? I stupidly forgot my password. I love any assistance you can offer me

@zechariahkenneth4979 2 жыл бұрын

@Alfred Thaddeus instablaster :)

@blanchecolombe1 9 жыл бұрын

I have one word RESPECT.

@DSRQ1 4 жыл бұрын

They absolutely killed it, and had a ball doing it. Sensational performance.

@welshieallovertheplace 2 жыл бұрын

Dennis & Levi clearly have so much respect and love for each other.

@tombeyer375 8 жыл бұрын

"Can ya dig it?" Those were the days! Todays' music can't touch it.

@tvang991 8 жыл бұрын

Agree

@debbiehampton818 6 жыл бұрын

Tom Beyer Yeah you got that right.🤗🤗🤗🤗

@jeromehawkins2118 6 жыл бұрын

Tom Beyer in

@Brax-ic1gd 6 жыл бұрын

Tom Beyer m8 today's music we're never on the charts or any competition for the oldies

@dakid3429 5 жыл бұрын

Wish I could give 1000000 likes

@TheBong195 8 жыл бұрын

Motown is the place where music was born. Motown forever. You never see something like this nowadays.

@lacyswallows5046 8 жыл бұрын

Being from Detroit......Smokey killed Motown . You are on point.

@tracyjohnson8144 8 жыл бұрын

Why do you place the blame on Smokey?

@Patriciausa11 7 жыл бұрын

Lacy Swallows Why? What's the scoop?

@codemonkeybrains 6 жыл бұрын

Motown is great, but there was music before it. So, yeah, kind of a silly claim.

@javy-81 6 жыл бұрын

MOTOWN IS HAPPY-SUMMER-TIME/ANY TIME MUSIC.... PROUD TO BE FROM THE D...

@PeteHathaway 2 жыл бұрын

The two greatest male vocal groups of all time having an absolute ball together

@cousy65nc61 4 жыл бұрын

What a voice Levi Stubbs has

@grahamsmiffy8737 6 жыл бұрын

LEVI WHAT A VOICE

@videogeekin 2 жыл бұрын

“ Brings sad tears to my eyes because out all these nine singers only two left in 2021, they are Otis Williams(age 80) and Abdul “Duke” Fakir(age 85).”

@honeytee3264 3 жыл бұрын

I’m 33 year old & my parents brought me up on this music with northern soul & i wish i was there at that concert right now 😩 the music makes you come alive no matter what difficulties you face in life. As much as i love the Four tops the Temptations have my heart in music ♥️

@garywillmoth962 2 жыл бұрын

Ahhh beautiful times i would travel all places from London for Northern soul 😚🤣

@secondbestpriest 2 жыл бұрын

Same and I'm 37. I feel sorry for young people who don't get the opportunity to hear the oldies. I played my 8 year old all kinds of music driving in the car, he sings 'I'll be there' at the top of his lungs

@tariqmalik8073 2 жыл бұрын

Northampton, Royal and Derngate have a Motown show soon.

@foodie1546 Жыл бұрын

@@secondbestpriest i love that! I’m 35. Thats how i learned to love the beautiful music before me. I dont even listen music of today

@sqhillpittsburgh Жыл бұрын

Miss everything about that era....Talent personfied.....none can compare today!!!!!!!!

@indesdaryl 2 жыл бұрын

Two of the greatest Motown groups ever. Just pure fabulous!

@mitchelslaton191 Жыл бұрын

Levi Stubbs had a unique voice with an uncanny, supernatural quality that comes along once in a lifetime. There hasn't been anyone who poured all his heart and soul into each song like Levi before or since. He is greatly missed.

@LynnCraig-vl9vm 7 ай бұрын

The music of today CAN'T COMPARE to THIS ❤...I MISS BOTH GROUPS ❤

@user-do4rg3mq2w 2 ай бұрын

Absabsolutely true amazing true talented artists no one will ever come close ❤❤❤❤

@lindaserale6467 3 жыл бұрын

I grew up with them. Born in 55. Oh what a great. Time to be alive. I still jam with there records. I'm 66.

@abrahampalmer8761 3 жыл бұрын

What year you think music started to decline as a whole

@user-do4rg3mq2w 2 ай бұрын

Born same time 1955 and no one comes close to this amazing music ❤

@jollygreengiantdrums 9 жыл бұрын

That bass xD Melvin was the man!

@brycetsukishima3617 8 жыл бұрын

Two of the GREATEST groups in MOWTOWN history!! SUPERB

@jmiller4280 7 жыл бұрын

Bryce Tsukishima Probably the two great groups of all time. I know the Beach Boys are up there but I have The Four Tops at the 1, Temptations at 2, and BB at 3.

@mathiyanz 7 жыл бұрын

John MILLER I have the temptations at #1, The 4 Tops at #2 and BB at #3

@larryreising2525 7 жыл бұрын

Sorry, guys, I just can't separate the 3 of them!!!

@robertkpatterson635 6 жыл бұрын

Bryce Tsukishima

@michaelstocks4231 6 жыл бұрын

Hi John, agree with your number 1 and 2 - but then you have loads more soul groups to add after the Tops & Temps - KTF

@chrisscanlan1506 3 жыл бұрын

There was never a vs with these two super groups it was simply an all time get together of magic

@demonweber666 Жыл бұрын

2 of the greatest Motown acts. This performance is amazing! The camaraderie, the showmanship, and the pure joy is off the charts.

@foxycarm1 8 жыл бұрын

I remember when I saw this for the first time. I was watching the special and when this happened I said to my household, we are witnessing something extraordinary. It rocked my world. These two groups were the background music to my life in the sixties. Seriously, their songs were humming away on our family radio in the late sixties marking every step our way. Sad, good, bad and happy. It was these two groups and their songs that defined that era in my life.

@robinlight 8 жыл бұрын

Love this!

@MaskedMan66 8 жыл бұрын

+foxycarm1 I wish I could have been there at the time to experience it firsthand, but what a joy to listen to this anyway!

@TheRedMieni 8 жыл бұрын

+foxycarm1 On top of that you had the Jackson's performing (for the last time?), as well as Michael doing the moonwalk!

@MaskedMan66 8 жыл бұрын

TheRedMieni Not hardly the last time! His superstardom was just getting started!

@williamshea4425 3 жыл бұрын

Beautifully put. Thank you

@konkretent 7 жыл бұрын

One of the greatest performance ever!!

@janetfishwick8887 9 ай бұрын

Tamla Motown . The greatest collection of groups, music and endless memories. Absolutely legendary.

@user-do4rg3mq2w 2 ай бұрын

The most truest words feel exactly the same ❤

@kelvinpulliam7663 3 жыл бұрын

I love how they all came together United it wasn’t no beef they were all singing and enjoying each other music 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

@leac6327 2 жыл бұрын

Melvin voice is just, wow. I love The Temptations

@ElizabethChristy 2 жыл бұрын

If I could go back to ONE live show in history? THIS.

@KOSHOTEP451 2 жыл бұрын

This is so amazing and classy. The current music industry has destroyed the soul of our music to destroy the consciousness and morals people.

@atlvirgo8456 Жыл бұрын

Please shut up

@monsieurdel Жыл бұрын

The artists of today contribute to it... they always can produce something else!

@pmccachren 3 жыл бұрын

Motown was a monster releasing hit after hit. The songs were gold.

@ThePassionOfTheMarc 6 жыл бұрын

I remember the night this aired, my Dad recorded it. Every weekend my sister and I would watch this at my Dad's house and this performance, the Marvin Gaye performance and of course the Michael Jackson moonwalk performance was HUGE. This whole show is legit one of the most important shows I watched on TV as a kid. Turned me on to my parents music and music I hadn't heard yet. Thanks for the memories and RIP dad!

@Airsoftcleaner 9 жыл бұрын

Other than Mike and The Jackson 5, The Temptations/Four Tops Review was one of the highlights of the show

@williamsethman2434 Жыл бұрын

These two groups were the Best Motown groups we have ever seen. Love all their music.

@chrisha1595 3 жыл бұрын

LOVE them forever! Greatest of all time! ...Sugar Pie, honey bunch. ... doesn't get any better. What a great time we lived in!!!

@sltaylor4491 6 жыл бұрын

Rest in Peace, Dennis Edwards! Lord knows you were so gifted with that beautiful voice! God Bless you and your Temptations!

@skepchica 2 жыл бұрын

He did not come to play!

@dev4930 6 жыл бұрын

Between the audiences reactions and these men jammin and enjoying themselves I smiled throughout this whole performance. As a millennial I wish that I could’ve been alive during these moments. It’s amazing and beautiful to see. ❤️

@derred723 4 жыл бұрын

I saw this show when it aired. It WAS epic. From this performance to Michael Jackson's moonwalk debut. People also forget this show was the Jackson 5 reunion and michael and Jermaine had been estranged for years before this show.

@jimcannon1162 3 жыл бұрын

There was obviously so much love between Dennis & Levi, this performance makes that so clear.

@kimberlywhite7072 2 жыл бұрын

I saw them last week. Go if they come to your area. You will enjoy it!

@brett2383 3 жыл бұрын

Dennis Edwards swagger is unmatched. You can just see he was a next level star ⭐️. Levi too!

@pjjj8117 Жыл бұрын

I probably commented before years ago and I will comment again now I’m 65 years old and I love them love them love them all and I’m so so so happy and blessed that I can watch this. I love them all so much so so much. Thank you thank you thank you. I miss them all. They will definitely be at my memorial and I will come back to hunt anybody that doesn’t help put them there because that is my wishes. These two groups are the best ever and I am so blessed to have grown up with them and heard both of them. I’m truly truly grateful.

@bosco1076 8 жыл бұрын

What great performers and great music this era was the best.

@openarmscare5226 6 жыл бұрын

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@toniwalker9479 6 жыл бұрын

R. I.P Dennis Edwards

@gregjacobs1751 2 жыл бұрын

i love this..... why cant songs be like this anymore

@Muziekgenot 5 жыл бұрын

This gives me a profound feeling of happiness and joy! A point of critic: this performance should continue for hours.

@thatguywiththeravioli386 7 жыл бұрын

Ron Tyson's first performance with the temptations..... WOW

@remiremi3788 7 жыл бұрын

What can we do to bring this type of music back? So innocent and sweet.

@WaterWordsWisdom 3 жыл бұрын

what an absolute pleasure to still be able to listen to real music and songs by people who truly have talent

@Mayito_Tamps 9 жыл бұрын

the two greatest bands of Motown Temps And Four Tops

@larryreising2525 6 жыл бұрын

Too right!!!

@janinehumphreys9015 6 жыл бұрын

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@janinehumphreys9015 6 жыл бұрын

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@chefbee70 6 жыл бұрын

BEAUTIFUL BLACK FOLKS

@kwameaboagye121 Жыл бұрын

The Four Tops and the Temptations are. two of the greatest ever soul groups in our history. Their hits are so classical. man, oh man. The Four Tops their classical I go for is If I were a Carpenter and the Temps Beauty is only skin deep.. RIP Baba Dennis Edwards, Baba Mel Franklin, Baba Levi Stubbs, Baba Obie Benson and Baba Larry Payton.

@popebeetlejuice1956 2 жыл бұрын

The golden era of music . I wasn’t born in that era but I know music when I hear, see and feel music, that particular frequency hits the soul.

@DatDetroitDude 8 жыл бұрын

I love Motown music

@ritajameson9133 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic no music will ever replace

@davinastanton3865 6 жыл бұрын

Rita Jameson You said it Rita. I am back there now. I wish. 💗💗💗

@abrahampalmer8761 2 жыл бұрын

Same

@steppene 7 жыл бұрын

This is MUSIC!

@ianlucas7679 2 жыл бұрын

Absolute awesome the lot of them now that is TALENT . And may the guys who have sadly passed away from the Temps and four tops may they all rest in peace and thanks so much for your sensational songs

@danwaller5312 11 ай бұрын

There is a lot of great music in heaven!

@lfalcon633 9 ай бұрын

Now today one of the Isley Brothers also left us. R.I.P.

@MOGGS1942 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful. Simply wonderful. I've loved Motown since early 1960' s. These two groups, together with The Supremes, Marvin, Tammi, Martha and her Vandellas, Stevie, and a host of others, make it worthwhile getting up in the morning. Motown occupies a huge chunk of my life, and my heart. Play it every day. Thank you Mr. Gordy, from this ancient white man. PS. I actually got to see Stevie Wonder, and The Temptations, live, in Wales. What great performers they all are.

@soturner955 7 жыл бұрын

"Just like the old days" ? These Magnificent, Talented, True Artists, are: Timeless.

@joannjohnson2481 7 жыл бұрын

Four Tops Rules

@FreshCreativeFrog25 2 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1999, currently 22 years old, and Canadian... This is what comes to my mind when I think of great Americans and black excellence. I grew up on this music thanks to my parents, and it's agonizing to me that people my age don't really listen to great artists like The Temptations or Four Tops. Pure talent and class. The bar has been dropped so low for my generation... I'm sick of all the derrogatory rap that sounds all the same. May my generation come across the great works of these artists from bygone eras and discover what beauty it all has.

@katohammond 2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this when it first originally aired in May of 1983. I was 17 years old. It is so surreal looking at this clip now and realizing that the majority of guys on this stage are no longer here any more. The only two up there who are still with us are Otis Williams and Ron Tyson… both from the Temptations.

@CatsClaw44 2 жыл бұрын

Abdul Fakir from the Four Tops is still alive

@melanielin2652 8 жыл бұрын

I grew up with all this music 50s 60s and Motown still great even now

@sherrygourley7300 7 жыл бұрын

Both groups are the greatest ever!!! I love me some Motowm!!!

@calvinalexander8291 3 жыл бұрын

I felt like when Levi Stubbs had sing the line "It's all in your face, someone's taking your place" to Dennis Edwards, i strongly think that he was referring to Ali Ollie Woodson on stage.

@teddyj.3198 2 жыл бұрын

😂😂 Actually Ollie did recall watching Levi sing those words and asking himself, “is it me?”, so great observation

@semiribrahim8956 2 жыл бұрын

Ali Woodson wasn’t on stage here with the temptations

@calvinalexander8291 2 жыл бұрын

@@semiribrahim8956 Yes he wasn't on stage but he was in the audience.

@semiribrahim8956 2 жыл бұрын

@@calvinalexander8291 oh, I didn't know that

@debiowens4992 2 жыл бұрын

Wish this was about 30 minutes longer ... Outstanding music.

@williammisquitta9762 8 жыл бұрын

pure magic

@luciebrugaletta1609 7 жыл бұрын

Can't beat Motown music !

@sportswaywithdraydaypodcast 6 жыл бұрын

Lucie Brugaletta The greatest form of music EVER and im 32 years old grew up on this shit

@donaldsmedley2919 6 жыл бұрын

Holland, Dozier,Holland

@WinnieAnderson 2 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this on TV and I still have it on VHS. Love them both...especially the fabulous Four Tops.

@upclose22 3 жыл бұрын

OMG, that was so good!!!! Bravo to two the greatest groups in history. The Temptations know they were so slick, still are but wow back then. Yes!!!

@in2food 6 жыл бұрын

It’s so fun and interesting to see both of these groups side by side and their contrasting styles. Levi himself said he wasn’t “a heck of a singer”. He considered himself more of a musical story teller. Two sides of a coin, both pure gold.

@jaso144 7 жыл бұрын

The Four Tops had HITS but The Temptations will ALWAYS BE #1.

@owlfreebird7428 4 жыл бұрын

One of the one of the greatest concerts ever by to the greatest bands in history

@massiveas276 4 жыл бұрын

Woohoo. When Levi sings to Dennis (but, David) "someone's taken your place!" Awesome

@peachy362 6 жыл бұрын

This brought tears to my eyes- Loved them so long ago.

@ruthannbrafford4725 8 жыл бұрын

The very best groups of my time. The newer do not have it over these guys.

@tvang991 8 жыл бұрын

Got that right

@itsjustnae0867 6 жыл бұрын

Ruthann Brafford who was better to u sorry but it was the temps I will always love them

@debbiehampton818 6 жыл бұрын

Ruthann Brafford Wow you are right I grew up on Motown

@angeliquecheung574 6 жыл бұрын

The Four Tops and The Temptations...ALL OUT WAR!!! THIS IS CRAZY!!! I LOVE IT!!!

@user-pr3uf9dd5p Күн бұрын

A FRIENDLY DUEL BETWEEN TWO LEGENDARY GROUPS AND THEIR UNFORGETTABLE SONGS !

@kfulmer415 6 жыл бұрын

Nothing like the 50's and 60's when it comes to music and lifestyle. I so miss those days!

@abrahampalmer8761 2 жыл бұрын

What year you think music started to decline as a whole

@graciegolden2290 7 жыл бұрын

So sad they are not anymore. What is today is a horror show.

@sanjayluaybarhar5799 6 жыл бұрын

Gracie Golden shit show brother

@jonny6758 5 жыл бұрын

Music today is not like this now a days

@ChrisSmallman1981 4 жыл бұрын

there is hope in many artists

@owlgang01 3 жыл бұрын

Tbh not all of today's music is bad

@frankconjaerts957 4 жыл бұрын

Together with Marvin's live version of "What's going on", this was absolutely the best live performance at the Motown 25 TV show in 1983.

@1985gardenia 2 жыл бұрын

Priceless, 2 of the best groups of all time, when performances were classy and elegant...LOVE IT!!

@aabhushanmoktan368 Жыл бұрын

so great !

@williefinn4932 9 жыл бұрын

levi in top form matched by dennis. both groups obviously enjoyed it....great music..great memories.

@Msflamingo-wl4qo 6 жыл бұрын

D-A-M-N!! Love this!! They blew the roof off this joint!!!

@danielrobledo1793 2 жыл бұрын

It was a priviledge to see them permforming at the Coronado Hotel at the Coronado Island in San Diego. What a performance! Wonderful singers and songs. I saw people crying by the emotion!

@62magik 4 жыл бұрын

2 of the most icon groups to ever walk the earth!..wat a mix of fav songs together live..yep im still listening in 2020 April!!!!..whos stil listening!!!🤗

@bigpoppa3866 8 жыл бұрын

This is Soul music!!!

@clintbonita 7 жыл бұрын

Temptations forever!

@jaso144 7 жыл бұрын

👏👍👌💪

@dallisb1047 7 жыл бұрын

jaso144 Am I the only one with a huge grin? MAN! What music.

@sanjayluaybarhar5799 6 жыл бұрын

Ill take the topps

@P.O.2024 3 жыл бұрын

Great music, it will never go away. Hope they do more stories on these great artists

@bernardsanke4876 2 жыл бұрын

MOTOWN - The encapsulation of true music and performance. Motown made my life go round, even though, back then I could not understand a word they were singing. What a wonderful time it was back then.

@davidgarcia4579 7 жыл бұрын

Great stuff better than that techno crap they have now I can listen to these bands anytime and do

@maureenrava410 7 жыл бұрын

David Garcia There is NO comparison between these professionals and entertainers and that flashing lights and synthetic noise of today! This IS professionalism!!