Catfish (album)
Catfish is the sixteenth studio album by American soul music vocal group, Four Tops, released by ABC Records.
Reception
Editors at AllMusic Guide scored this release three out of five stars, with reviewer Andrew Hamilton praising the title track as "one of the Four Tops' most entrancing numbers", but complaining that "the rest is strictly second-rate songwriter-workshop stuff". The 1992 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide also rated this release two out of five stars.Track listing
- "Catfish" – 6:36
- "Feel Free" – 6:04
- "You Can't Hold Back on Love" – 4:25
- "I Know You Like It" – 3:31
- "Strung Out for Your Love" – 5:42
- "Love Don't Come Easy" – 6:37
- "Disco Daddy" – 3:44
- "Look at My Baby" – 3:58
Personnel
Four Tops- Renaldo Benson – bass vocals
- Abdul Fakir – first tenor vocals
- Lawrence Payton – second tenor vocals, keyboards, arrangement, production
- Levi Stubbs – lead baritone vocals
- Johnny Allen – arrangement
- Gil Askey – arrangement
- Steve Barri – percussion, production
- Eddie "Bongo" Brown – percussion
- Richard "Buddy" Butson – keyboards
- Carl Austin & Co. – strings
- Clifford Carter – keyboards
- Dennis Coffey – guitar
- Greg "Thumper" Coles – bass guitar, rhythm arrangement
- Reginald Dozier – engineering
- The Funk Brothers – instrumentation
- Joe Guastella – guitar
- Doug Hyun – photography
- Johnny Trudell & Co. – horns
- Uriel Jones – drums
- Dave Penney – percussion
- Ken Sands – engineering
- Joe Smith – guitar
- Dave Van De Pitte – arrangement
- Earl Van Dyke – keyboards, rhythm arrangement
- Robert White – guitar, rhythm arrangement
- Eddie Willis – guitar