Meeting of the Minds (album)

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Meeting of the Minds
Four Tops - Meeting of the Minds.jpg
Studio album by
Released1974 (1974)
Genre Soul music
Length41:10
LanguageEnglish
Label Dunhill
Producer
Four Tops chronology
Main Street People
(1973)
Meeting of the Minds
(1974)
Live & in Concert
(1974)

Meeting of the Minds is a 1974 studio album by American soul music vocal group Four Tops, released by Dunhill Records.

Contents

Reception

Editors at AllMusic Guide scored this release three out of five stars, with reviewer Jason Elias criticizing that the "production failed to capitalize on the group's chemistry, offering songs that were formulaic and stale", but also noting that there are a few good tracks, particularly "Tell Me You Love Me (Love Sounds)". [1]

Track listing

  1. "One Chain Don't Make No Prison" (Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter) – 4:29
  2. "Midnight Flower" (Reginald Dozier and McKinley Jackson) – 4:03
  3. "The Well Is Dry" (Lambert and Potter) – 3:48
  4. "Love Ain't Easy to Come By" (Lambert and Potter) – 3:38
  5. "No Sad Songs" (Leonard Caston, Ronald Foster, and Len Perry) – 5:14
  6. "Right On Brother" (Lambert and Potter) – 4:05
  7. "Tell Me You Love Me (Love Sounds)" (Al Cleveland and Lawrence Payton) – 3:30
  8. "All My Love" (Joe Ely) – 4:29
  9. "I Found the Spirit" (Renaldo Benson and Val Benson) – 3:54
  10. "Meeting of the Minds" (Lambert and Potter) – 4:22

Personnel

Four Tops

Additional personnel

Chart performance

Meeting of the Minds peaked at 118 on the Billboard 200 and reached 22 on the R&B charts. [2]

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References

  1. Elias, Jason. "The Four Tops – Meeting of the Minds". AllMusic Guide . Retrieved May 9, 2023.
  2. "US Albums". AllMusic Guide. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012. Retrieved June 23, 2016.