DUKE FAKIR (THE FOUR TOPS) - The UNTOLD STORY | END of an ERA | The HIDDEN BEGINNINGS | MARY WILSON

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  • Duke Fakir, with his refined tenor voice, had a keen eye for style and sharp dressing, giving the group a touch of pure class with their slick suits. The Four Tops group was built on a foundation of brotherhood, friendship, and loyalty. Remarkably, they are one of the few popular groups that literally stayed together until death did them apart.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 51

  • @VerolynBrown
    @VerolynBrown Місяць тому +17

    May they rest in heaven 🙏🏽

  • @nursemcfarlane6655
    @nursemcfarlane6655 Місяць тому +22

    True Brotherhood! They are such a historic gift for the world to see, hear, and learn from. Four Tops Job Well Done!!!

  • @user-bn4uq8yp6y
    @user-bn4uq8yp6y Місяць тому +12

    This group the Four Tops was a great 😃 performers , I have their music 🎵 as well so unique they got along with each , their was no drama between them. Had great hits , back in the day. 💕 Them . RIP 🙏 🙏 Duke. 😢 You are joined with your bandmates once again .

  • @FallGuy467
    @FallGuy467 Місяць тому +24

    RIP Duke, the legacy of the Four Tops is solidified and will never ever be duplicated.
    Salute 🎙️🎙️🎙️🎙️

  • @kincamell2
    @kincamell2 Місяць тому +10

    Reach Out (I'll Be There) and Bernadette are 2 of the best songs, ever.

  • @jbwc
    @jbwc Місяць тому +9

    Levi was the MAN

    • @jaiyabyrd4177
      @jaiyabyrd4177 29 днів тому

      @@jbwc that was the most beautiful voice at Motown along with Eddie Kendrick & Michael Jackson

  • @jaiyabyrd4177
    @jaiyabyrd4177 29 днів тому +5

    Rest Easy❤
    Rest in Paradise
    Rest in Eternal Peace 🌹🌹 Duke Fakir❤
    I have always wondered about Duke's background

  • @beverlymouzone2709
    @beverlymouzone2709 Місяць тому +12

    Rest in peace Mr. Fakir

  • @JTAITSINGER
    @JTAITSINGER Місяць тому +17

    Rest in peace!

  • @user-tb6pn6zd4v
    @user-tb6pn6zd4v Місяць тому +7

    All buried together at Woodlawn Cemetery 🙏

  • @AJ-Bruno
    @AJ-Bruno Місяць тому +7

    Thanks for this pretty excellent video!

  • @charliearnold4706
    @charliearnold4706 Місяць тому +15

    A brilliant group of their time. I can still remember buying their album, titled, The Four tops on top, which came out in 1966. I love the track, titled Brenda. I also love their album, titled, That the way nature planned it. In the early years, with HDH, they couldn't go wrong, with such writing and producing talent.

    • @michellekirkendall818
      @michellekirkendall818 Місяць тому +1

      @@charliearnold4706 That whole album is excellent !!!!!!

    • @jaiyabyrd4177
      @jaiyabyrd4177 29 днів тому

      @@charliearnold4706
      *Well Said*
      I truly appreciate and admire your comments and statement about the Fabulous Four Tops.

  • @stephanie3506
    @stephanie3506 Місяць тому +4

    Wow.....they are all gone now.😢❤❤❤

  • @sheilapalmer9539
    @sheilapalmer9539 Місяць тому +4

    He was sososo sososo fly

  • @sheilapalmer9539
    @sheilapalmer9539 Місяць тому +3

    He was the man

  • @tonyforbes1571
    @tonyforbes1571 24 дні тому +2

    I love the group. The temp and the four tops. Was the best group ever.

  • @davidoverholt251
    @davidoverholt251 5 годин тому

    My most favorite Motown 4 brothers from another mother! Levi, Duke, Peyton, Renaldo! The most beloved partners of soul music in my 50's and 60's and into the 70's!

  • @crystaljohnson2358
    @crystaljohnson2358 Місяць тому +11

    Class!

  • @gaddyify
    @gaddyify Місяць тому +5

    Michael Key looks just like him, from the comedy duo Key and Peel.

  • @Anna-ij9kq
    @Anna-ij9kq 26 днів тому +2

    Lovely video thank you. Yes the end of an era. The fabulous Four Tops 🎉🎉🎉

  • @ruthhaywood3473
    @ruthhaywood3473 29 днів тому +4

    Rest well gentlemen. A job will done In your life and times

  • @9772
    @9772 Місяць тому +12

    So What!!!! They were Married 50 years. Mine your own business…
    Who are you to pass JUDGMENT 🐮

  • @learhaynes1002
    @learhaynes1002 22 дні тому +3

    R.I.P. to the Four Tops.

  • @ericvanjames8395
    @ericvanjames8395 Місяць тому +5

    As suggested in this video: I've always known The Four Tops were superior to The Temptations. No disrespect to them at all.

  • @brucescott4261
    @brucescott4261 7 днів тому +1

    LEVI, DUKE, LARRY and OBIE!!!! THEY WERE TOGETHER FOR FORTY-THREE YEARS, PERIOD!!! No one, and I mean NO ONE have stayed together that long, ever, in history, PERIOD!!! THE ORIGINAL FOUR TOPS!!!

  • @emmanuelferguson5604
    @emmanuelferguson5604 Місяць тому +3

    Sorry eddie was a better stylist

  • @deanadiedrich9304
    @deanadiedrich9304 Місяць тому +7

    Sorry, But we all know Levi Stubbs was the king of this group... you should be doing something good on him!

    • @michellekirkendall818
      @michellekirkendall818 Місяць тому +3

      They already have done so. The group's friendship was huge, too.

    • @michellekirkendall818
      @michellekirkendall818 Місяць тому +4

      @@deanadiedrich9304 What in heaven's name is wrong here? The wonderful Levi Stubbs passed away sixteen years ago, was heralded for his greatness BEFORE and after his death.
      The death of the last original member, Abdul Kareem "Duke" Fakir on July 22, allows us to see the WHOLE STORY.
      You're very short-sighted. Mr. Fakir has written the definitive book, telling the group's story. There are wonderful interviews Fakir has given; stunning library lectures, in Detroit and Britain, in the last two years. Fakir speaks of seeing a thirteen-year-old Levi Stubbs, singing, a genius even then.
      You should know better.

    • @michellekirkendall818
      @michellekirkendall818 Місяць тому +1

      @@deanadiedrich9304 And from Duke Fakir 's wonderful story of how they met in 1954, shows me THREE OTHER KINGS that contributed to a 44 year old brotherhood that has first heartbreak with the death of Lawrence Payton in 1997.

  • @pattrell5257
    @pattrell5257 Місяць тому +6

    What silly parents he had! A Christian and Muslim marriage?! Anybody that knows anything about the 2 religions knows that they have different philosophies that are incompatible!

    • @mohabatkhanmalak1161
      @mohabatkhanmalak1161 Місяць тому +4

      In what way?
      A muslim man is allowed to marry a woman from what the Quran mentions as "The people of the book" meaning Christians and Jews. Here, the book means the ORIGINAL scriptures of Moses and the ORIGINAL gospel teachings of Issa AS (christ). A lot in these scriptures or teachings have been distorted and altered by men who had no authority to do so, and this is what Islam is against. After the marriage, the muslim husband then has to bring the wife back to the original message. And that is how it works, no high road, no low road, just the middle path. ☘

    • @pattrell5257
      @pattrell5257 Місяць тому +2

      @@mohabatkhanmalak1161 I don't mean like that! It's unwise is what I meant. Why marry when the trajectory is divorce?! Both are going to insist on raising their chjIbren under their prospective religious banner. Plus, if the husband's a practicing Muslim, it is not allowed for your chjIbren to raised as Christians. And, it's the same for a practicing Christian wife not to allow her chjIbren be raised muslim under her watch! THAT BEING THE FACTS OF THE MATTER, WHY MARRY?!

    • @9772
      @9772 Місяць тому +5

      So what… I left a comment for you. They were Married
      For 50 years.
      Who are you… To say anything …unkind…

    • @9772
      @9772 Місяць тому

      What a Silly person you are 😳

    • @sweetpea5907
      @sweetpea5907 Місяць тому +3

      @@9772 thank you. The man hasn’t been buried a day, then here comes the naysayers