Formed 1956, Detroit, Michigan, USA Levi Stubbs (b. Levi Stubbles, 6th June 1936, Detroit, Michigan, USA d. 17th October 2008, Detroit, Michigan, USA) Renaldo 'Obie' Benson (b. 14th June 1936, Detroit, Michigan, USA d. 1st July 2005, Harper Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA) Lawrence Payton (b. 2nd March 1938, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 20th June 1997) and Abdul 'Duke' Fakir (b. 26th December 1935, Detroit, Michigan, USA) The Four Tops were formed, under that name, in 1956 in Detroit, Michigan, although two years prior to that they had sang at a party together in the town. All of the group members attended Detroit-area high schools. Levi Stubbs and Abdul 'Duke' Fakir attended Pershing, and met Northern students Renaldo 'Obie' Benson and Lawrence Payton at a friend's birthday party. It was at this party where the quartet first sang together. In those preceding years they called themselves the Four Aims, as early as 1953, changing their name in 1956 to the Four Tops. As the Four Aims, they sang Jazz Standards, converting to an R & B sound with the name change. They changed their name to the Four Tops to avoid confusion with the group the Ames Brothers. Lawrence Payton's cousin Roquel Davis helped them get an audition with Chess Records in 1956, where they recorded one single entitled 'Kiss Me Baby'. The Four Tops also recorded for the Red Top, Columbia (where they recorded 'Ain't That Love' in 1960) and Riverside imprints between 1958 and 1962.In 1965, they released 'I Can't ...
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