The Four Tops

The Four Tops, originally called the Four Aims, made their first single for Chess Records in 1956, and spent seven years on the road and in nightclubs, singing pop, blues, Broadway, but mostly jazz — four-part harmony jazz. When Motown’s Berry Gordy Jr. found out they had hustled a national appearance on “The Tonight Show,” he signed them without an audition to be the marquee act for the company’s Workshop Jazz label. Their first Motown hit, “Bab...