Night Lights Harmony

Night Lights Harmony
Studio album by Four Tops
Released	July 1975 (1975-07)
Genre	Soul music
Length	38:30
Language	English
Label	ABC
Producer	Steve Barri Lawrence Payton
Four Tops chronology
Live & in Concert (1974) Night Lights Harmony (1975) Catfish (1976)

Night Lights Harmony is the fifteenth studio album by American soul music vocal group Four Tops, released by ABC Records.

Reception

Editors at AllMusic Guide scored this release two out of five stars. ^[1] The 1992 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide also rated this release two out of five stars. ^[2] In Portraying Performer Image in Record Album Cover Art , art critic Ken Bielen suggests that the cover painting—a departure from most Four Tops albums that feature photographs of the performers—shows the harmony that group's vocals can give listeners by combining the busy cityscape of Times Square along with the exotic birds meeting in the sky. ^[3]

Track listing

1. "Seven Lonely Nights" (James Ralph Bailey, Rudy Clark, and Ken Williams) – 3:02
2. "Mama You're All Right with Me" (Dennis Lambert Brian Potter) – 3:16
3. "Is This the Price?" (Deke Richards) – 3:12
4. "We All Gotta Stick Together" (Richard Beasley, Fred Bridges, Richard Knight, and Lawrence Payton) – 4:50
5. "I've Got What You Need" (George Byrd, Henderson Huggins, and Joe Wilson) – 4:36
6. "I Can't Hold on Much Longer" (Renaldo Benson, Bridges, Payton, and Willie D. Thomas) – 3:59
7. "(It Would Almost) Drive Me Out of My Mind" (Rob Benson, Bridges, Payton, and Killie Thomas) – 3:40
8. "I'm Glad You Walked into My Life (Dedicated to Stevie)" (Gil Askey, Leonard Lee, and Payton) – 6:03
9. "Let Me Know the Truth" (Clifford Carter) – 5:52

Personnel

Four Tops

• Renaldo Benson  – bass vocals
• Abdul Fakir  – first tenor vocals
• Lawrence Payton  – second tenor vocals, production
• Levi Stubbs  – lead baritone vocals

Additional personnel

• Steve Barri  – percussion, production
• Ben Benay – guitar
• Max Bennett  – bass guitar
• Ginger Blake – backing vocals
• Clifford Carter – keyboards
• Phil Cross – mastering
• King Erisson – percussion
• Victor Feldman  – percussion
• Wilton Felder  – bass guitar
• Chuck Findley  – horn
• Jay Graydon  – guitar
• Ed Greene  – drums
• Paul Hubinon – horn
• Phil Kaye – recording
• Jackie Kelso, Jr. – horn
• Lew McCreary – horn
• Roger Nichols – recording, mixing
• Michael Omartian  – keyboards, arrangement
• Dean Parks  – guitar
• Lee Ritenour  – guitar
• Fred Selden – horn
• Sidney Sharp – concertamster
• The Sid Sharp Strings – strings
• David T. Walker  – guitar
• Ernie Watts  – horn

Chart performance

Night Lights Harmony peaked at 148 on the Billboard 200 and reached 24 on the R&B charts. ^[4]

See also

• List of 1975 albums

References

1. "The Four Tops – Night Lights Harmony". 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. Bielen, Ken (November 2, 2021). "From Sweet Sixties to Seventies Soul Music to Portraying Disco on the Cover". Portraying Performer Image in Record Album Cover Art. Lexington Books. p. 57. ISBN   9781793640734.
4. "US Albums". AllMusic Guide. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012. Retrieved June 23, 2016.

External links

• Night Lights Harmony at Discogs (list of releases)
• Night Lights Harmony at MusicBrainz (list of releases)