{{use list-defined references|date=May 2023}} {{use mdy dates|date=May 2023}} {{Infobox album | name = Soul Spin | type = studio | artist = Four Tops | cover = Four Tops - Soul Spin.jpg | alt = An orange-tinted photo of the band wearing suits, surrounded by an elaborate and colorful pattern of stars and triangles repeated four times | released = {{Start date|1969|11}} | recorded = | studio = | genre = Soul music | length = {{Duration|m=36|s=08}} | language = English | label = Motown | producer = Frank Wilson | prev_title = Four Tops Now! | prev_year = 1969 | next_title = Still Waters Run Deep | next_year = 1970 | misc = }}
'''''Soul Spin''''' is the eighth studio album by American soul music vocal group Four Tops, released by Motown.
==Reception== A review in ''Billboard'' recommends this album to retailers for its "sophisticated sound".<ref name="bb19691227" /> Editors at AllMusic Guide scored this release 2.5 out of five stars, with critic John Bush noting how producer Frank Wilson pushed the band to experiment on this recording, but characterizing this album as "curiosities, though, perfect for hardcore Motown fans listeners interested in digging deeper".<ref name="amg" /> Bush also reviewed a 2001 compilation of this album and ''Yesterday's Dreams'' from 2001, calling the collection dominated by "ill-advised covers" that "hardly made for great listening anytime after" its initial release.<ref name="amgydss" /> The 1992 edition of ''The'' Rolling Stone ''Album Guide'' rated this release three out of five stars.<ref name="rs" />
==Track listing== #"Look Out Your Window" (Cleveland Horne and Frank Wilson) – 2:57 #"Barbara’s Boy" (Joe Hinton and Pam Sawyer) – 2:55 #"Lost in a Pool of Red" (Sawyer and Bea Verdi) – 3:35 #"Got to Get You into My Life" (John Lennon and Paul McCartney) – 2:37 #"Stop the World" (Jack Goga, Freddie Gorman, and Ivory Joe Hunter) – 2:59 #"Nothing" (Cleveland and Smokey Robinson) – 2:40 #"This Guy’s in Love with You" (Burt Bacharach and Hal David) – 3:50 #"Light My Fire" (John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, and Jim Morrison) – 3:35 #"Honey" (Russell Ballard) – 3:50 #"The Look of Love" (Bacharach and David) – 4:10 #"California Dreamin’" (John Phillips and Michelle Phillips) – 3:10
==Personnel== '''Four Tops''' *Renaldo Benson – bass vocals *Abdul Fakir – first tenor vocals *Lawrence Payton –second tenor vocals *Levi Stubbs – lead baritone vocals
'''Additional personnel''' *Tom Baird – arrangement *Henry Cosby – arrangement *Jerry Long – arrangement *Wade Marcus – arrangement *Gene Page – arrangement *Paul Riser – arrangement *Frank Wilson – production
==Chart performance== ''Soul Spin'' was by far the weakest-performing Four Tops album yet, peaked at 163 on the ''Billboard'' 200 and reached 30 on the R&B charts.<ref name="amgchart" />
==See also== *List of 1969 albums
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="amg">{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/soul-spin-mw0000841112 |last=Bush |first=John |language=en-US |publisher=AllMusic Guide |accessdate=2023-05-09 |title=The Four Tops – Soul Spin}}</ref> <ref name="amgchart">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-four-tops-mn0000071812/awards |language=en-US |title=US Albums |publisher=AllMusic Guide |access-date=2016-06-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121130053538/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-four-tops-mn0000071812/awards |archive-date=2012-11-30}}</ref> <ref name="amgydss">{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/yesterdays-dreams-soul-spin-mw0000462342 |last=Bush |first=John |language=en-US |publisher=AllMusic Guide |accessdate=2023-05-09 |title=The Four Tops – Yesterday's Dreams/Soul Spin}}</ref> <ref name="bb19691227">{{Cite magazine |magazine=Billboard |language=en-US |title=Pop Spotlight |department=Reviews |date=1969-12-27 |page=49 |volume=81 |issue=52 |issn=0006-2510}}</ref> <ref name="rs">{{Cite book |page=260 |isbn=9780679737292 |publisher=Random House |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews : Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist |year=1992 |editor1-last=DeCurtis |editor1-first=Anthony |editor2-first=Holly |editor2-last=George-Warren |editor3-first=James |editor3-last=Henke}}</ref> }}
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