Born in Detroit, MI in 1936, deep-voiced singer Levi Stubbs began his professional singing career in his hometown when he and friends Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, and Lawrence Payton formed the Four Aims vocal group in 1954 (some accounts put the date a year earlier). The group worked as a supper club act for a couple of years, changing their name to the Four Tops and, following unsuccessful recording stints with Chess and Columbia, signed to Berry Gordy's then-fledgling Motown Records in 1963. They completed a debut LP for Motown in their polished and jazzy supper club style but it wasn't really what Gordy... Read More...
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