Four Tops Reach Out
uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, May 1970
THE BIG QUESTION hanging over the heads of the Four Tops, Tamla Motown's long-running stars, is just how much they are going to miss the influence of the great writing team of Holland-Dozier-Holland, who now have their own record company in Detroit.
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