The Complete ABC/Dunhill Singles

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Audio Remasterer: Aaron Kannowski. Liner Note Author: Ed Osborne. The Four Tops left Motown in 1972 and signed with ABC/Dunhill, having success right out of the gate with the Top 10 hits "Keeper of the Castle" and "Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)." The Pop hits soon dried up, but the quartet remained a fixture on the Billboard R&B charts through 1976, when "Catfish" became their final Top 10 hit for the label. Real Gone's 2018 compilation The Complete ABC/Dunhill Singles chronicles this era in a detail previous collections lacked, spanning 33 tracks over the course of two CDs. If the extra space doesn't wind up altering the conventional wisdom of how the Four Tops were no longer pacesetters when they were on ABC/Dunhill, the also-ran A-sides and B-sides wind up offering period pleasures, as they're expert executions of '70s soul trends. On ABC, the Four Tops gradually glided from smooth soul to neo-Philly soul, winding up at disco, ably navigating the changes without making an imprint on the styles. Perhaps that hurt the trajectory of their career, but listening to this body of work on its own provides plenty of enjoyment, even during the latter years when they were doing glitzy generic disco. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine