{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Main Street People | type = Album | artist = The Four Tops | cover = Main Street People Four Tops.jpeg | alt = | released = September 1973<ref>[http://stereocandies.blogspot.com/2013/10/four-tops-main-street-people-1973.html?m=1 FOUR TOPS "MAIN STREET PEOPLE" (1973)]</ref> | recorded = | studio = ABC, Los Angeles, California | venue = | genre = R&B | length = 40:35 | label = {{hlist|Dunhill|Probe}} | producer = Steve Barri, Dennis Lambert, Brian Potter | prev_title = Keeper of the Castle | prev_year = 1972 | next_title = Meeting of the Minds | next_year = 1974 | misc = {{Singles | name = Main Street People | type = studio | single1 = It Won't Be the First Time | single1date = 1972 | single2 = Too Little, Too Late | single2date = 1972 | single3 = Sweet Understanding Love | single3date = 1973 | single4 = Main Street People | single4date = August 1973 | single5 = Are You Man Enough? | single5date = May 1973 }} }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000845920|first=Jason|last=Elias|accessdate=2022-12-03}}</ref> }} '''''Main Street People''''' is the thirteenth studio album by R&B group the Four Tops, released in 1973. It produced three singles, one of which, "Sweet Understanding Love" was the group's last top 40 single in the US for eight years. The album itself did not enjoy the commercial success the group was used to: 'Main Street People didn't do near what it should have done,' Abdul Fakir said in 1982, 'considering the quality of the material.'<ref>Mary Campbell, 'The Four Tops are Current Again with Concert Tour' Rocky Mount Telegram 28 March 1982, p. 11</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Uudet sinkulat|language=Finnish|author=Dave Nummelin|date=1974|publisher=MUSA|page=8}}</ref>
==Track listing== All tracks composed by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter; except where indicated
===Side A=== #"Main Street People" (Intro) – (1:42) #"I Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind" – (3:59) #"It Won't Be The First Time" – (3:53) #"Sweet Understanding Love" (Ivy Jo Hunter, Renaldo Benson, Val Benson) – (3:00) #"Am I My Brother's Keeper" (Len Perry, Renaldo Benson, Val Benson) – (3:25) #"Are You Man Enough?" from the MGM movie ''Shaft in Africa'' – (3:24)
===Side B=== #"Whenever There's Blue" – (5:20) #"Too Little, Too Late" – (3:20) #"Peace of Mind" (Abdul Fakir, Huey Davis, Renaldo Benson) – (4:28) #"One Woman Man" (Len Perry, Phil Townsend) – (4:39) #"Main Street People" (3:22)
==Personnel== *Levi Stubbs (Tracks 2–9 & 11), Lawrence Payton (Tracks 1, 5 & 10) — lead vocals *Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Abdul "Duke" Fakir — backing vocals *Wilton Felder — bass *Paul Humphrey — drums *Ben Benay, David T. Walker, Joe Smith, Larry Carlton — guitars *Chip Crawford, Dennis Lambert, Michael Omartian, Michael Wofford — keyboards *Gary B.B. Coleman, King Ericsson — percussion *Sidney Sharp – concertmaster *Dennis Lambert, Don Hockett, Gil Askey, Jimmie Haskell – arrangements
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Category:1973 albums Category:Four Tops albums Category:ABC Records albums Category:Dunhill Records albums Category:Albums arranged by Jimmie Haskell