ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The legacy version of an iconic R&B\/soul group will play a headline grandstand show with Allentown Symphony Orchestra on Allentown Fair’s opening night, it was announced Monday.<\/p>\n
The Four Tops, who in the 1960s helped define the Motown sound with hits such chart-topping hits as “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” will perform at 7 p.m. Sept. 2. <\/p>\n
Tickets, the prices of which were not revealed, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 12, at the fair’s website, or at the box office on the fairgrounds.<\/p>\n
Allentown Fair<\/p>\n
The vocal group will be joined onstage by Allentown Symphony Orchestra, which is celebrating its 75th season.<\/p>\n
“The Great Allentown Fair has always been about bringing exceptional entertainment to our community, and this performance is truly something special,” fair Marketing & Entertainment Manager Jessica Ciecwisz said.<\/p>\n
“The combination of The Four Tops’ legendary catalog and the artistry of the Allentown Symphony Orchestra will create an unforgettable evening for music lovers of all generations.”<\/p>\n
Tickets, the prices of which were not revealed, will go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, June 12, at the fair’s website<\/a> or at the box office on the fairgrounds. All show tickets include fair admission.<\/p>\n Special box office hours will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday. The box office also is open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. every Thursday.<\/p>\n The announcement is the latest for this year’s fair, which will run Sept. 2-7. <\/p>\n Previously announced were Stars, Stripes & Slams wrestling on Sept. 3,<\/a>fast-rising country singer Warren Zeiders on Sept. 4,<\/a> platinum-selling pop-punk band All Time Low with up-and-coming fast-rising pop-punk singer Taylor Acorn on Sept. 5<\/a>, and Local Legends Live, a celebration of local music, at 2 p.m. Sept. 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n Tickets remain available for all the shows. <\/p>\n Hits in three decades<\/p>\n The Four Tops from 1965-81 had 18 Top 20 hits, two of which went to No. 1 \u2014 “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)” in 1965 and the 1966 gold hit “Reach Out I’ll Be There.”<\/p>\n Along with The Temptations, The Supremes, The Miracles and Martha and the Vandellas, they established the Motown sound of pop-friendly soul and R&B.<\/p>\n The group broke onto the charts in 1964 with the hit “Baby I Need Your Lovin’,” which peaked at No. 11 on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n The Four Tops history<\/p>\n The group broke onto the charts in 1964 with the hit “Baby I Need Your Lovin’,” which peaked at No. 11 on the Hot 100.<\/p>\n It followed with “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch),” the Top 5 “It’s the Same Old Song” and the Top 20 “Something About You,” all in 1965.<\/p>\n It’s 1965 self-titled debut album topped the R&B chart, and in all, 18 of its albums hit the Top 20 on that chart.<\/p>\n It started 1966 with “Reach Out I’ll Be There,” then followed with “Standing in the Shadows of Love” and “Burnadette,” both Top 5 hits.<\/p>\n It continued having Top 10 hits through the 1973 gold hit “Ain’t No Woman (Like the One I’ve Got)” and 1981’s “When She Was My Girl,” which topped the R&B chart. <\/p>\n From its start through 1997, the group had the same lineup. Lead singer Levi Stubbs died in 2008, and final original member Abdul “Duke” Fakir in 2024.<\/p>\n The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, and received a Grammy Awards Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. <\/p>\n Allentown Symphony Orchestra is under the leadership of Music Director and Conductor Diane Wittry, now in her 31st season.<\/p>\n Many of its musicians also perform with major orchestras in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n The Four Tops performed with The Temptations at Wind Creek Event Center in Bethlehem on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 The legacy version of an iconic R&B\/soul group will play a headline grandstand show with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,70553,93650,70832,93651,121,120,93652,93653,93654,93655],"class_list":["post-213909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-fair-and-grandstand","tag-allentown-fair-concerts","tag-allentown-fair-grandstand","tag-allentown-fair-headline","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-symphony","tag-allentown-symphony-and-allentown-fair","tag-the-four-tops","tag-the-four-tops-and-allentown-fair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}