BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Legacy versions of two iconic R&B/Soul singing groups will return to Wind Creek Event Center, it has been announced.
The Temptations, who from 1965-89 had 45 Top 10 R&B hits, 15 of which went to No. 1 and 18 of which were gold records, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday, April 25.
They will be joined by The Four Tops, who from 1965-72 had 15 Top 10 hits on the R&B chart, two of which went to No. 1, including the 1966 gold hit "Reach Out I'll Be There."
Tickets, at $39.40-$99.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 27, at the Wind Creek website or at the box office at 66 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.Wind Creek Event Center website
Tickets, at $39.40-$99.50, go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 27, at the Wind Creek website or at the box office at 66 Wind Creek Blvd., Bethlehem.
The groups also played together at Wind Creek last April.
Both groups were among the foremost artists of the Motown sound in the 1960s and '70s.
The Temptations, perhaps best known for their 1964 platinum No. 1 hit "My Girl," started in 1960 as a group of five vocalists led by the pair of David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks.
They first hit No. 1 in 1964 with "The Way You Do the Things You Do," and later had chart-topping platinum hits including 1969's "I Can't Get Next to You," 1971's "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)" and 1972's "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone."
The Temptations had 19 gold and platinum albums.
Ruffin died in 1991 and Kendricks in 1992. The group's only remaining original member is baritone Otis Williams, 82.
The Four Tops
The Four Tops started by singing backup on Motown singles by The Supremes and Martha and the Vandellas.
They released their self-titled, chart-topping debut album in 1964, which included the hit "Baby I Need Your Loving."
They had their first No. 1 hit with "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" in 1965 and had perhaps its biggest success with the gold, chart-topping hit "Reach Out I'll Be There" in 1966.
They continued to have gold hits including "Ain't No Woman
(Like the One I've Got)" in 1973, and topped the charts as later as 1981 with "When She Was My Girl."
Iconic lead singer Levi Stubbs died in 2008, and the last original member, Abdul Kareem "Duke" Fakir, died in July.
The Four Tops were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and have been awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
