{"id":2715,"date":"2008-10-17T20:42:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T00:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2715"},"modified":"2008-10-17T20:42:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-18T00:42:19","slug":"good-night-sweet-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-sweet-top","title":{"rendered":"Good night, sweet Top"},"content":{"rendered":"

Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops died today at 72<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Looking over the Four Tops’ discography<\/a>, I’m amazed at just how many great songs they have. For a 2-year span during college, not a day would go by in which I didn’t hear Reach Out (I’ll be There), Baby, I Need Your Loving, <\/em>Bernadette, <\/em> <\/em>or Standing in the Shadows of Love<\/em> on the radio of my beat-up Hyundai. My old pal Sascha<\/a> would attest to this, if I weren’t posting about it during shabbat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops died today at 72. Looking over the Four Tops’ discography, I’m amazed at just how many great songs they have. For a 2-year span during college, not a day would go by in which I didn’t hear Reach Out (I’ll be There), Baby, I Need Your Loving, Bernadette, or … <\/p>\n

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