Changing Times (Four Tops album)

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Changing Times
A photo of the band standing on stairs with concentric circles drawn on them
Studio album by
Four Tops
ReleasedSeptember 1970 (1970-09)
GenreSoul music
Length34:37
LanguageEnglish
LabelMotown
ProducerFrank Wilson
Four Tops chronology
Still Waters Run Deep
(1970) 		Changing Times
(1970) 		The Magnificent 7
(1970)

Changing Times is a 1970 studio album by American

vocal group Four Tops, released by Motown
.

Reception

A review in

AllMusic Guide scored this release three out of five stars, with critic Ron Wynn noting the strength of the vocalists, particularly on the title track and characterizes their work as "a solid job".[2] The 1992 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide rated this release 2.5 out of five stars.[3] The album was produced by Frank Wilson who had earlier in 1970 scored a major comeback for the Four Tops with the Still Waters Run Deep release. These two albums were on the market at the same time as follow up The Magnificent 7
, with Changing Times having the weakest sales of them all.

Track listing

  1. "In These Changing Times" (Frank Wilson (musician) and Pam Sawyer) – 5:28
  2. "Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)" (Sawyer and Leon Ware) – 3:11
  3. "
    Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head" (Burt Bacharach and Hal David
    ) – 3:40
  4. "Right Before My Eyes" (Sawyer and Wilson) – 3:18
  5. "I Almost Had Her (but She Got Away)" (Vincent DiMirco) – 3:12
  6. "Try to Remember" (Tom Jones (lyricist)Harvey Schmidt) – 4:24
  7. "Something’s Tearing at the Edges of Time"  (Sharon Lucas) – 2:45
  8. "Sing a Song of Yesterday" (Yennik Samoht, Wilson and Sawyer) – 4:03
  9. Medley: "The Long and Winding Road" / "In These Changing Times" (John Lennon and Paul McCartney / Sawyer and Wilson) – 4:36

Personnel

Four Tops

  • Renaldo Benson – baritone vocals
  • Abdul Fakir
     – tenor vocals
  • Lawrence Payton
     – tenor vocals
  • Levi Stubbs – lead and baritone vocals

Additional personnel

Chart performance

Changing Times peaked at 109 on the Billboard 200 and reached 20 on the R&B charts.[4]

See also

  • List of 1970 albums

References

  1. ISSN 0006-2510
    .
  2. AllMusic Guide
    . Retrieved May 9, 2023.
  3. ISBN 9780679737292
    .
  4. AllMusic Guide. Archived from the original
    on November 30, 2012. Retrieved June 23, 2016.

External links
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