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FREE CONCERT! THE FOUR TOPS
- Start Date: 08-18-2010 07:30PM
- End Date: 08-18-2010 09:00PM
- Event Type: Concerts
- Location: Buffalo.com Grandstand
WHTT and WKBW TV Welcome
The Four Tops
For a FREE Concert (with gate admission)
on the Buffalo.com Grandstand
Sponsored by Fairgrounds Gaming
- FREE concert with gate admission Wednesday, August 18th at 7:30 PM
- Originally named The Four Aims, when they began their career while in high school in
- In 1956 The Four Aims changed their name to the Four Tops, so not to be confused with the Aims Brothers, when they signed with Chess Records,
- The first # 1 hit was "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" in 1965 and “Reach Out I’ll Be There” for the Motown label.
- Other songs are, It's the Same Old Song" is a 1965 hit single recorded for the Motown, "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)", 1973 hit single for the ABC/Dunhill record label.
- The Four Tops were together from 1953 until 1997 without a single change.
- The first change came with Lawrence Payton died on 6/20/97. The band continued with just three members under the name of The Tops. In 1998 Theo Peoples (formerly of The Temptations) was recruited for the fourth member of the group.
- In 2000 Levi Stubbs suffered a stroke (Stubbs died on October 17, 2008), Peoples took over the led singing spot and Ronnie McNier filled Lawrence Payton’s position in the group.
- When Benson died of lung cancer on July 1, 2005, Payton’s son Roquel Payton replaced Benson.
- Since 2006, Fakir, McNeir, Payton and Peoples continue to perform together.
- The only original surviving member of the group is Abdul “Duke” Fakir