{"id":22640,"date":"2025-11-02T17:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22640\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:24:08","slug":"country-singer-with-viral-hit-coming-to-wind-creek-2-iconic-soul-rb-groups-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/22640\/","title":{"rendered":"Country singer with viral hit coming to Wind Creek; 2 iconic soul\/R&#038;B groups to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 A country music singer-songwriter who had a double-platinum hit with a song that went viral on TikTok will perform at Wind Creek Event Center, it was announced.<\/p>\n<p>Also announced was the return of legacy versions of two iconic R&amp;B\/Soul singing groups.<\/p>\n<p>Country singer Dylan Gossett, whose self-released 2023 hit &#8220;Coal&#8221; made the Billboard Top 100, and who this year released his debut album &#8220;Westward&#8221; in July, will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 5.<\/p>\n<p>And The Temptations, who from 1965-89 had 45 Top 10 R&amp;B hits, will perform with The Four Tops, who from 1965-72 had 15 Top 10 hits on the R&amp;B chart, at 7 p.m. Friday, April 10.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets, at $45 standing general admission and $75 for seated wings for Gossett and $39.50-$99.50 for seats to The Temptations and Four Tops, are on sale <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windcreekeventcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">at the event center website<\/a> and its box office at 77 Wind Creek Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>Gosset released his first single, &#8220;To Be Free,&#8221; in June 2023, but it was &#8220;Coal,&#8221; released in July 2023, that gave him his breakthrough. <\/p>\n<p>It went viral on TikTok, reached the Top 20 on the Hot Country Songs chart, and crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p>He also self-released his debut EP, &#8220;No Better Time,&#8221; in October 2023, and it included the gold hit &#8220;Beneath Oak Trees.&#8221; The EP peaked at No. 34.<\/p>\n<p>Gosset released a second EP, &#8220;Songs in the Gravel,&#8221; in 2024, then released his debut album, &#8220;Westward,&#8221; this past July. It hit No. 24 on the Country Albums chart. <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"The Temptations play Wind Creek Event Center\"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/static.lehigh-v.lehigh-valley.production.k1.m1.brightspot.cloud\/dims4\/default\/576980e\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1920x1080+0+0\/resize\/880x495!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Flehigh-valley-brightspot.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fd2%2F94%2F94046df54c12abb39405ddf9ed89%2Ftemptations.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZlcnNpb249IjEuMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSI0OTVweCIgd2lkdGg9Ijg4MHB4Ij48L3N2Zz4=\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy Wind Creek Event Center<\/p>\n<p>\/<\/p>\n<p>             The Temptations and The Four Tops will play Wind Creek Event Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Temptations, Four Tops<\/p>\n<p>The Temptations and Four Tops were among the foremost artists of the Motown sound in the 1960s and &#8217;70s. <\/p>\n<p>The Temptations had 15 No. 1 hits and 18 gold records and The Four Tops had two No. 1 hits, including the 1966 gold hit &#8220;Reach Out I&#8217;ll Be There.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Temptations, perhaps best known for their 1964 platinum No. 1 hit &#8220;My Girl,&#8221; started in 1960 as a group of five vocalists led by the pair of David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks.<\/p>\n<p>They first hit No. 1 in 1964 with &#8220;The Way You Do the Things You Do,&#8221; and later had chart-topping platinum hits including 1969&#8217;s &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Get Next to You,&#8221; 1971&#8217;s &#8220;Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)&#8221; and 1972&#8217;s &#8220;Papa Was a Rollin&#8217; Stone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Temptations had 19 gold and platinum albums.<\/p>\n<p>Ruffin died in 1991 and Kendricks in 1992. The group&#8217;s only remaining original member is baritone Otis Williams, 82.<\/p>\n<p>The Four Tops released their self-titled, chart-topping debut album in 1964, which included the hit &#8220;Baby I Need Your Loving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They had their first No. 1 hit with &#8220;I Can&#8217;t Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)&#8221; in 1965 and had perhaps its biggest success with the gold, chart-topping hit &#8220;Reach Out I&#8217;ll Be There&#8221; in 1966.<\/p>\n<p>They continued to have gold hits including &#8220;Ain&#8217;t No Woman<br \/>(Like the One I&#8217;ve Got)&#8221; in 1973, and topped the charts as later as 1981 with &#8220;When She Was My Girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iconic lead singer Levi Stubbs died in 2008, and the last original member, Abdul Kareem &#8220;Duke&#8221; Fakir, died in July.<\/p>\n<p>The Four Tops were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 and have been awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.<\/p>\n<p>The groups also played together at Wind Creek last April and in April 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 A country music singer-songwriter who had a double-platinum hit with a song that went viral&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,7771,155,154,15166,15167,15168,15169,15170,7776],"class_list":["post-22640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-and-concerts","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-dylan-gossett-and-bethlehem","tag-dylan-gossett-and-wind-creek","tag-temptations-and-four-tops-and-bethlehem","tag-temptations-and-four-tops-and-wind-creek","tag-the-temptations-and-four-tops","tag-wind-creek-and-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640","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=22640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}