Yesterday's Dreams (Four Tops album)
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Yesterday's Dreams | ||||
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Studio album by The Four Tops | ||||
Released | August 1968 | |||
Recorded | Hitsville U.S.A., Detroit | |||
Genre | Rhythm and blues | |||
Label | Motown | |||
Producer | Ivy Jo Hunter, Ashford & Simpson, Frank Wilson | |||
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Singles from Yesterday's Dreams | ||||
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Yesterday's Dreams is the seventh overall and sixth studio album recorded by the Four Tops, issued by Motown Records in August 1968. The album was recorded as the main Motown songwriting/producing partnership of Holland–Dozier–Holland were leaving the label, and as a result only contains one song from them, "I'm in a Different World", which was released as a single.
There are several other original Motown songs on the album, including the title track, "Remember When", "We've Got a Strong Love (On Our Side)", "Can't Seem to Get You out of My Mind" and a cover of Stevie Wonder's "A Place In The Sun". The rest are cover songs produced by Ivy Jo Hunter and Frank Wilson.
Track listing[]
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Yesterday's Dreams" | Vernon Bullock, Jack Alan Goga, Ivy Jo Hunter, Pam Sawyer | 2:59 |
2. | "Can't Seem to Get You out of My Mind" | Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson | 3:24 |
3. | "I'm in a Different World" | Holland–Dozier–Holland | 3:02 |
4. | "We've Got a Strong Love (On Our Side)" | Jack Alan Goga, Ivy Jo Hunter, Pam Sawyer | 3:10 |
5. | "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" | Jimmy Webb | 3:10 |
6. | "Remember When" | Shena DeMell, Jack Alan Goga, Ivy Jo Hunter | 3:11 |
7. | "Sunny" | Bobby Hebb | 3:29 |
8. | "Never My Love" | Don Addrisi, Dick Addrisi | 3:27 |
9. | "Daydream Believer" | John Stewart | 3:16 |
10. | "Once upon a Time" | Lee Adams, Charles Strouse | 2:28 |
11. | "The Sweetheart Tree" | Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer | 3:00 |
12. | "A Place in the Sun" | Ron Miller, Bryan Wells | 3:25 |
Personnel[]
- Levi Stubbs – lead vocals (baritone)
- Renaldo "Obie" Benson – bass vocals
- Abdul "Duke" Fakir – tenor vocals
- Lawrence Payton – keyboard, tenor vocals, occasional lead vocals
- The Originals - additional background vocals (on certain songs)
- The Andantes - additional background vocals
- Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers
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Categories:
- Four Tops albums
- 1968 albums
- Albums produced by Frank Wilson (musician)
- Albums produced by Ashford & Simpson
- Albums produced by Ivy Jo Hunter
- Motown albums
- Albums recorded at Hitsville U.S.A.