Would things have been different for the Four Tops if H-D-H had stayed at Motown

[Motown Eddie]

As usual, I have a very unpopular opinion for this forum.

I'm glad The Four Tops left Motown. They needed a change, some fresh ideas and a new musical direction. I think their collaboration with The Moody Blues encouraged that.

I also agree with you on this: the move to ABC Records give the Four Tops give the group major hits in the early to mid '70s with "Keeper Of The Castle", "Ain't No Woman [[Like The One I've Got)", "Midnight Flower", and others. And I read somewhere that the Motown brass didn't do anything to keep the group when their contract was up [["you guys are finished anyway" is what I've heard-maybe not from Gordy himself but from someone else at the company).