Catfish (album)

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Catfish
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Studio album by
Four Tops
Released1976 (1976)
Genre
Length40:37
LanguageEnglish
Label ABC
Producer
Four Tops chronology
Night Lights Harmony
(1975)		Catfish
(1976)		 The Show Must Go On
(1977)

Catfish is a 1976 studio album by American soul music vocal group, Four Tops, released by ABC Records.

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Reception

Editors at AllMusic Guide scored this release three out of five stars, with reviewer Andrew Hamilton praising the title track as "one of the Four Tops' most entrancing numbers", but complaining that "the rest is strictly second-rate songwriter-workshop stuff". [1] The 1992 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide also rated this release two out of five stars. [2]

Track listing

  1. "Catfish" (Fred Bridges, Mikki Farrow, and Lawrence Payton) – 6:36
  2. "Feel Free" (Bridges, Dee Dee McNeil, and Payton) – 6:04
  3. "You Can't Hold Back on Love" (Payton) – 4:25
  4. "I Know You Like It" (Renaldo Benson, Bridges, and Joe Smith) – 3:31
  5. "Strung Out for Your Love" (Benson, Marcus Cummings, and Clarence Paul) – 5:42
  6. "Love Don't Come Easy" (Bridge, Farrow, and Payton) – 6:37
  7. "Disco Daddy" (Greg "Thumper" Coles) – 3:44
  8. "Look at My Baby" (Benson and Val Benson) – 3:58

Personnel

Four Tops

Additional personnel

Chart performance

Catfish peaked at 124 on the Billboard 200 and reached 26 on the R&B charts. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Hamilton, Andrew. "The Four Tops – Catfish". AllMusic Guide . Retrieved May 10, 2023.
  2. ↑ DeCurtis, Anthony; George-Warren, Holly; Henke, James, eds. (1992). The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews : Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist. Random House. p. 260. ISBN   9780679737292.
  3. ↑ "US Albums". AllMusic Guide. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012. Retrieved June 23, 2016.
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