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marv2
06-10-2018, 12:13 AM
Time for some more Classic Motown Music! The Four Tops and "Simple Game"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDID-1NYAjg
WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance
06-10-2018, 01:02 AM
Why don't I rememer this? Sounds like it should have gotten a lot of radio play! Nice video- great post!
marv2
06-10-2018, 01:11 AM
Why don't I rememer this? Sounds like it should have gotten a lot of radio play! Nice video- great post!

I remember hearing it more on Canadian radio than anywhere else when it came out.
WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance
06-10-2018, 01:27 AM
I remember hearing it more on Canadian radio than anywhere else when it came out. I'll have to ask my brother if he remembers if this was played on Chicago radio. I remember the music from this time, but maybe this didn't really get the traction here as it did in other regions.
mysterysinger
06-10-2018, 03:57 AM
There was a good discussion of "Simple Game". and " So Deep Within You" here.

https://soulfuldetroit.com/showthread.php?6781-The-Four-Tops-A-Simple-Game
soulster
06-10-2018, 03:14 PM
Why don't I rememer this? Sounds like it should have gotten a lot of radio play! Nice video- great post!

It was great. They recorded it with the Moody Blues in an impromptu session. I guess you don't have any Four Tops comp or the second Hitsville box. It's on those.
marv2
06-10-2018, 03:22 PM
Motown could have, should have promoted this record. This is probably one of the reason why they left the label that year and went to ABC/Dunhill.
WaitingWatchingLookingForAChance
06-10-2018, 05:47 PM
It was great. They recorded it with the Moody Blues in an impromptu session. I guess you don't have any Four Tops comp or the second Hitsville box. It's on those.

I have all the main Four Tops anthology CDs and I know "A Simple Game" is on a few of them, but I gravitate more toward Motown 60's sound; I know it's criminal, but I'll end up giving only a quick listen to the 70's music unless it's something that brings back memories from childhood, something I remember hearing on the radio. "A Simple Game" didn't register at all, so that's why I was wondering about it getting radio play back when I was a kid.
rovereab
06-11-2018, 01:10 PM
A Simple Game was a big hit in the UK and rightly so. We had a different mix to the US version with a different edit towards the end of the song.

I might be wrong but I think it might have been kept off the Number 1 spot by Rod Stewart's Maggie May.

A great performance by the Tops and Moody Blues!
marv2
06-11-2018, 02:28 PM
Listening to "A Simple Game" now, I think would have been a hit in the U.S. had it been released in the late 60s, after the assassinations, riots and general turmoil in America. It just has that anthem type feel to it. What do you think?
copley
06-12-2018, 03:31 PM
A Simple Game was a big hit in the UK and rightly so. We had a different mix to the US version with a different edit towards the end of the song.

I might be wrong but I think it might have been kept off the Number 1 spot by Rod Stewart's Maggie May.

A great performance by the Tops and Moody Blues!

You are correct. 'Maggie May' was at #1 and 'Witch Queen of New Orleans' was at #2. It was their final Top 10 hit on Motown.

http://www.officialcharts.com/charts/singles-chart/19711031/7501/