The Four Tops
with
Doug Brown- piano
Joey Costello- guitar
Tony Diorio- bass
Dave Penn(?)- drums
(Joe Smith, music director)
Boston City Hall Plaza
Boston, Mass.
July 6, 1980
(free concert)
performance quality: B+ at least, an inspired show
recording quality: B (pretty good, but fairly
prominent crowd noise, and some mike shuffling noises,
it was a large crowd)
lineage:
AKG D-190 E microphones (on hand held stands) >
Sony 158 cassette deck (dolby off) >
TDK-SA 90 min. cassette >
played on Nak. 125 into soundforge 4.5 >
CD > CD extractor (WAV) > FLAC 6 > torrentially yours.

setlist: not found on etree, what else is new
so I have guessed on a couple of these titles (?)
1: ?
2: ?
3: baby I need your lovin'
4: ain't no woman like the one I got
5: just can't get you out of my mind (?)
6: main street
7: isn't she lovely (?) Stevie Wonder
8: ?
9: the same old song (sugar pie, honey bunch)
10: reach out, I'll be there
11: standing in the shadows of love
12: band introductions
13: ?
14: ?
15: I can't help myself
16: Catfish
17: MacArthur Park
18: party, party (?)
comments:
Ever wonder where the Celtics, Patriots and Red Sox all
wind up their paths to championship in Boston victory parades?
Right where this concert happened. There have been a few shows there,
I only saw a couple and this was probably the best show I saw there.
so from a place where teams that couldn't be topped spoke of their
triumphant glory, I present a group that was never topped. The Four
Tops are an essential staple in American music history with
several huge hits on the soul/R & B charts in the 1970's, if
I didn't hear music of the Supremes/ Four Tops or other
Motown sounds blaring out of the art room in junior high school,
(long before it was renamed "Charlie Brown Jr. High School")
it could only mean one of 4 things.
1: schoolwide power failure
2: art classes not in session
3: fire drill in progress.
4: school vacation week.
I haven't listened much to them recently, but it got to the point where
if I didn't hear Motown music, much of it from the Four Tops, I didn't feel
like I was in school, and it was actually a reason to look forward to going
to school.
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.
this was a free concert.
keep it that way.