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.
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
References
External links Four Tops' Second Album at MTV, with lyrics Four Tops - Second Album (1965) album review by Ron Wynn, credits & releases on AllMusic Four Tops - Second Album (1965) album releases & credits on Discogs Four Tops - Second Album (1965) album to be listened as stream on Spotify