Motown's Shadows Of Love

Motown surrounded Levi Stubbs' voice with its most gloomiest sound of all its acts. And Stubbs played the part well on the Four Tops' best songs. The back to back singles of "Bernadette" and "7 Rooms of Gloom" best sum this up. Stubbs always sounded like someone or something was after him. The edge of "Reach Out", "Ask The Lonely", "Standing In The Shadows Of Love" and even "Bernadette", were indeed a contrast to the groups lighter flare. But the best Tops are the Tops at the dark end of the street. A place, it seems, Levi Stubbs visited quite often.