four tops- look out your window

Added: Jul 9, 2010

From: tomovox

Duration: 3:13

a very unusual turn for the Four Tops..."Look Out Your Window" came from writers H. Cleveland and Frank Wilson. It's a rather blunt indictment of a privileged man of the corporate world. The charges aren't so much for his having wealth, but for the distance and indifference to the everday man that has come from his high position (literally and symolically.) Just look out your window and take a good look at the people who make the world go around...The Four Tops are amazing messengers of this message and demonstrate that they were truy astounding when it came to versatillity. We've known them for the great Motown Sound hits, we've also heard them singing the jazz standards they started out with in their early pre-Motown days. Here, The Four Tops tackle some very serious social issues and prove to be equal to the task. Levi Stubbs' voice was perfect for this sort of hard-charging material and combined with Obie Benson, Duke Fakir and Lawrence Payton, it was certain that none of the message would be lost on the listener.The album "Soul Spin" carried no hits, but had some hard-hitting material such as "Look Out Your Window." It was produced, for the most part, by Frank Wilson who gave the songs broad-view productions. "Look Out Your Window" has a fantastic, brooding, ominous and dark quality that was as far away from anything most would have expected from a Four Tops recording or a Motown recording for that matter.

Channel: Music

Tags: the four tops  four tops  frank wilson  motown  tamla motown  soul  pop  funk brothers  northern soul  soul spin 

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