At Tributes.com we believe that Every Life has a Story that deserves to be told and preserved. They also recorded for Red Top, Riverside and Columbia Records and toured supper clubs. Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com: accessed ), memorial page for Levi Stubbs (6 Jun 1936–17 Oct 2008), Find a Grave Memorial no. He would hand you the mike in a minute." The American pop group, "The Four Tops," pose at Heathrow airport, In this Wednesday, May 26, 2004 file photo, Four Tops member Levi Stubbs, seated, is introduced by Michigan state Sen. Irma Clark-Coleman, foreground left, to a session of the state Senate in Lansing, Mich, In this Wednesday, May 26, 2004 file photo, Four Tops member, This Nov. 14, 1966 file photo shows the "Four Tops", outside St. Paul's Cathedral in London. × Stubbs died at his Detroit home from a variety of health ailments. Please check your email and click on the link to activate your account. For memorials with more than one photo, additional photos will appear here or on the photos tab. We have a volunteer within fifty miles of your requested photo location.
Also an additional 2 volunteers within fifty miles. The email does not appear to be a valid email address. With Stubbs in the lead, the Four Tops sold millions of records and performed for more than four decades without a change in personnel. I thought you might like to see a memorial for Levi Stubbs I found on Findagrave.com. Original Top Lawrence Payton died of liver cancer in 1997. His distinguished voice helped define such classic hits as "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)" (1965), "It's The Same Old Song" (1965), "Reach Out I'll Be There" (1966) and "Bernadette" (1967). Their biggest hits were recorded between 1964 and 1967 with the in-house songwriting and production team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland. Franklin, in 1984. Your password must be at least 8 characters, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. Stubbs contributed his voice to the 1986 film adaptation of "Little Shop of Horrors", as the man-eating plant Audrey II.
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Photos larger than 8Mb will be reduced. When he and others at Motown first heard "Baby I Need Your Loving," Gordy remembered: "Levi's voice exploded in the room and went straight for our hearts. A system error has occurred. Jun 6, 1936 – Oct 17, 2008 (Age 72) Plant Memorial Trees Opens send flowers url in a new window Levi Stubbs. Plese check the I'm not a robot checkbox.'. Save to an Ancestry Tree, a virtual cemetery, your clipboard for pasting or Print.
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Close this window, and upload the photo(s) again. "He was a tremendous artist," Justman said. Gladys Knight remembered Stubbs as an immensely talented and kind man whom she had known since the 1950s.
The acclaimed documentary film "Standing in the Shadows of Motown," which took its name from the Four Tops song, was released in 2002 and focused on the Funk Brothers, the talented but unheralded musicians who played backup on many Motown recordings. Also an additional volunteer within fifty miles. My band Rokotto went on tour with The Four Tops in 1977 when they came over to the UK. The group performed at the historic Live Aid Concert in Philadelphia on July 13, 1985. Are you sure that you want to remove this flower?