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
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
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!
Amen
Best music 🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵 ever 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜 and bless you 🙏🏼 I'm behind you At 70😂❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Tamla Motown . The greatest collection of groups, music and endless memories. Absolutely legendary.
The most truest words feel exactly the same ❤
Miss everything about that era....Talent personfied.....none can compare today!!!!!!!!
I am in heaven ….. never seen this before …. I am 64 and feeling 16 …… thank you ❤
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.
What year you think music started to decline as a whole
Born same time 1955 and no one comes close to this amazing music ❤
The music of today CAN'T COMPARE to THIS ❤...I MISS BOTH GROUPS ❤
Absabsolutely true amazing true talented artists no one will ever come close ❤❤❤❤
These two groups were the Best Motown groups we have ever seen. Love all their music.
“ 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).”
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!!!
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.
Living through history. Didn't know it at the time.
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!
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.
I've commented before but I want 2 comment again simply and completely sensational
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!!!!
Absolutely 🤗
MOTOWN music will be remembered. Even now singers are now singing old crooner music as they're aging! It's past to be remembered!
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.
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!
May GOD BLESS you
How do you dance to this lol,?
@@tainaayiti😂wth do you mean?.
Oh look at you and your pity for black people.
@@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
LEVI WHAT A VOICE
More talent on one stage than in all of Hollywood today!
True that! Lots and lots of hours of practice to be that good.
You got that right!!!!!
So very very true. Just God-given talent.
Cancel Hollywood
Absolutely ❤️
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! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Sanging. Yes I said Sanging!!
Repression
I would rather watch this than the 2023 Oscars.
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!
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
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.
What a voice Levi Stubbs has
No auto-tune, all Talent. These days are long gone, so sad
This is the music u love and want to get up and dance..love it..
@@wandastevenson7124 for sure!!!!
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?
Absolutely correct
Temptations easy
Both. I loved em both and others.
@@dougfunnie2541 not easily because the four tops are killing it too
Been listening to Motown for the past week. I’m a 90s kid but I loooove the beautiful music from the 60s and 70s ❤
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.
David Ruffin ,Phillipe Wynne
No doubt!
Eddie Kendricks
@@josephwallace3625 Oh yeah ..None back then thru today could sing like Eddie. Unique voice! When heard you knew it was Eddie.. Continue Riparadise Greats 🙏🏽
@@elisageorge1798 Levi Stubbs had the most unique voice in Motown. That baritone sound was incredible.
Dennis & Levi clearly have so much respect and love for each other.
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!
I really really love My Motown. Till the day I die 😇🥰🤩😍😁xxxxxx I'm 66
I always want my music
Levi stubbs had one of the most unique voices of all time
I'm sad because we will never see such talent again ! Absolute heaven listening to two of the topmost groups in the world.
So very true.👏🏼👏🏼♥️♥️😊💪👌🥰
We will never see a group yelling on stage, ever again?
The two greatest male vocal groups of all time having an absolute ball together
I had grown up on this music. No color, just music. I respect both!
There was always color. Most of these artists had to use the back entrance to perform.
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.
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.
@@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.
One of the greatest musical performances in history, and some of the greatest American music ever.
agree
And they prove it !
Truly timeless!
No doubt.
Can't stop watching it. LOVE IT!!!!
LOVE them forever! Greatest of all time! ...Sugar Pie, honey bunch. ... doesn't get any better. What a great time we lived in!!!
Two of the greatest Motown groups ever. Just pure fabulous!
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
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.
what difference does it make f you're white? Music is music
Great acts sad to say there is only one original member of each group that's still alive
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 KZhead 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
Thanks for supporting the Temptations
They absolutely killed it, and had a ball doing it. Sensational performance.
There was never a vs with these two super groups it was simply an all time get together of magic
Melvin voice is just, wow. I love The Temptations
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.
Greatest special ever -Motown 25 llegendary!!
To right.
Yes
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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.
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 ♥️
Ahhh beautiful times i would travel all places from London for Northern soul 😚🤣
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
Northampton, Royal and Derngate have a Motown show soon.
@@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
"Can ya dig it?" Those were the days! Todays' music can't touch it.
Agree
Tom Beyer Yeah you got that right.🤗🤗🤗🤗
Tom Beyer in
Tom Beyer m8 today's music we're never on the charts or any competition for the oldies
Wish I could give 1000000 likes
I have one word RESPECT.
This is so amazing and classy. The current music industry has destroyed the soul of our music to destroy the consciousness and morals people.
Please shut up
The artists of today contribute to it... they always can produce something else!
2 of the greatest Motown acts. This performance is amazing! The camaraderie, the showmanship, and the pure joy is off the charts.
Motown is the place where music was born. Motown forever. You never see something like this nowadays.
Being from Detroit......Smokey killed Motown . You are on point.
Why do you place the blame on Smokey?
Lacy Swallows Why? What's the scoop?
Motown is great, but there was music before it. So, yeah, kind of a silly claim.
MOTOWN IS HAPPY-SUMMER-TIME/ANY TIME MUSIC.... PROUD TO BE FROM THE D...
Two of the GREATEST groups in MOWTOWN history!! SUPERB
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.
John MILLER I have the temptations at #1, The 4 Tops at #2 and BB at #3
Sorry, guys, I just can't separate the 3 of them!!!
Bryce Tsukishima
Hi John, agree with your number 1 and 2 - but then you have loads more soul groups to add after the Tops & Temps - KTF
i love this..... why cant songs be like this anymore
They were having to much fun I wish I could have been there ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
That bass xD Melvin was the man!
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.
Love this!
+foxycarm1 I wish I could have been there at the time to experience it firsthand, but what a joy to listen to this anyway!
+foxycarm1 On top of that you had the Jackson's performing (for the last time?), as well as Michael doing the moonwalk!
TheRedMieni Not hardly the last time! His superstardom was just getting started!
Beautifully put. Thank you
Motown was a monster releasing hit after hit. The songs were gold.
Dennis Edwards swagger is unmatched. You can just see he was a next level star ⭐️. Levi too!
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!
Rest in Peace, Dennis Edwards! Lord knows you were so gifted with that beautiful voice! God Bless you and your Temptations!
He did not come to play!
I love how they all came together United it wasn’t no beef they were all singing and enjoying each other music 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I’m a 57 year old white woman in Australia- born in 1962 and I have been OBSESSED with these guys, Marvin, Al Green, MArtha & the Vandellas, ALLTHE MOWTOWN LEGENDS since I can remember- THANKYOU FOR THE MUSIC- I wish I had been born 10 years earlier and in USA where I could really have been a part of the music as it all happened! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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. ❤️
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.
There was obviously so much love between Dennis & Levi, this performance makes that so clear.
I saw them last week. Go if they come to your area. You will enjoy it!
Ron Tyson's first performance with the temptations..... WOW
The four tops are killin it!
If I could go back to ONE live show in history? THIS.
One of the greatest performance ever!!
The Four Tops had HITS but The Temptations will ALWAYS BE #1.
what an absolute pleasure to still be able to listen to real music and songs by people who truly have talent
The Four Tops and The Temptations...ALL OUT WAR!!! THIS IS CRAZY!!! I LOVE IT!!!
Can't beat Motown music !
Lucie Brugaletta The greatest form of music EVER and im 32 years old grew up on this shit
Holland, Dozier,Holland
Other than Mike and The Jackson 5, The Temptations/Four Tops Review was one of the highlights of the show
This gives me a profound feeling of happiness and joy! A point of critic: this performance should continue for hours.
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.
Four Tops Rules
What can we do to bring this type of music back? So innocent and sweet.
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.
No competition. I love them all!
R. I.P Dennis Edwards
BEAUTIFUL BLACK FOLKS
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
There is a lot of great music in heaven!
Now today one of the Isley Brothers also left us. R.I.P.
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.
I love Motown music
Fantastic no music will ever replace
Rita Jameson You said it Rita. I am back there now. I wish. 💗💗💗
Same
What great performers and great music this era was the best.
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Mann..to have been in that room to experience all that love❤❤❤.... #RIPDENNIS #RIPLEVI
Levi Stubbs and the Four Top,were one of the greatest if not the greatest groups,four friends who remained committed to excellence in music,Levi truly loved his childhood friends,he could've pursued a solo career but chose his friends over himself,no man could ask for a better friend,a man willing to sacrifice the one for the many,thank you and your brother for some of the greatest music in my life time😍🙏.
Yup. And he always split the money equally 4 ways.
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.
Abdul Fakir from the Four Tops is still alive
"Just like the old days" ? These Magnificent, Talented, True Artists, are: Timeless.
Nothing like the 50's and 60's when it comes to music and lifestyle. I so miss those days!
What year you think music started to decline as a whole
Ah, the Soundtrack to my Life . . .Temps & Tops Forever!!
Awesome, Iam 70yrs old Asian man and I was blessed to have this type of music in my life. I love it. No matter how hard life gets music always make it better. Thank you so much 🇵🇭😎👍
This brought tears to my eyes- Loved them so long ago.
Both groups are the greatest ever!!! I love me some Motowm!!!
Awesome show with the Temps and the Tops! Real music here from the 60's and 70's.
Wish this was about 30 minutes longer ... Outstanding music.
Temptations forever!
👏👍👌💪
jaso144 Am I the only one with a huge grin? MAN! What music.
Ill take the topps
This is MUSIC!
Mannnnnn....Levi Stubbs was one of the most underrated vocalists ever!
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.
😂😂 Actually Ollie did recall watching Levi sing those words and asking himself, “is it me?”, so great observation
Ali Woodson wasn’t on stage here with the temptations
@@semiribrahim8956 Yes he wasn't on stage but he was in the audience.
@@calvinalexander8291 oh, I didn't know that
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!!!
Priceless, 2 of the best groups of all time, when performances were classy and elegant...LOVE IT!!
so great !
Great music, I grew up in Detroit listening to these two great groups. It brings back so many memories, listened to them on Detroit radio all the time. Great artists!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow! What a performance. Goosebumps watching this!
That was so nice. I noticed that the 4 Tops were all the Original singers, unfortunately the Temptations weren't. But, they did good. It was a good battle. Much respect to both groups. God bless them 🙏🏻 ❤️ 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
the two greatest bands of Motown Temps And Four Tops
Too right!!!
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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.
I was there watching with my mother. She taught me music. Amazing show that would never happen in 2020.
I remember watching this on TV and I still have it on VHS. Love them both...especially the fabulous Four Tops.
Wow ! my 70 years of Life in one concert never to repeated even my children appreciate perfection when they hear it 😎👍👍👏👏
The Four Tops and the Temptations, I remember them well. Today? Nothing even comes close!!
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.