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Catfish
Studio album by Four Tops
Released	1976 (1976)
Genre	Disco soul music
Length	40:37
Language	English
Label	ABC
Producer	Steve Barri Lawrence Payton
Four Tops chronology
Night Lights Harmony (1975) Catfish (1976) The Show Must Go On (1977)

Catfish is a 1976 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

1. "Catfish" (Fred Bridges, Mikki Farrow, and Lawrence Payton) – 6:36
2. "Feel Free" (Bridges, Dee Dee McNeil, and Payton) – 6:04
3. "You Can't Hold Back on Love" (Payton) – 4:25
4. "I Know You Like It" (Renaldo Benson, Bridges, and Joe Smith) – 3:31
5. "Strung Out for Your Love" (Benson, Marcus Cummings, and Clarence Paul) – 5:42
6. "Love Don't Come Easy" (Bridge, Farrow, and Payton) – 6:37
7. "Disco Daddy" (Greg "Thumper" Coles) – 3:44
8. "Look at My Baby" (Benson and Val Benson) – 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

Additional personnel

• 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

Chart performance

Catfish peaked at 124 on the Billboard 200 and reached 26 on the R&B charts.

See also

• List of 1976 albums

References

1. Hamilton, Andrew. "The Four Tops – Catfish". AllMusic Guide. Retrieved May 10, 2023.
2. DeCurtis, Anthony; George-Warren, Holly; Henke, James, eds. (1992). The Rolling Stone Album Guide: Completely New Reviews : Every Essential Album, Every Essential Artist. Random House. p. 260. ISBN 9780679737292.
3. "US Albums". AllMusic Guide. Archived from the original on November 30, 2012. Retrieved June 23, 2016.

External links

• Catfish at Discogs (list of releases)
• Catfish at MusicBrainz (list of releases)

• 1976 albums
• ABC Records albums
• Albums produced by Steve Barri
• Disco albums by American artists
• Four Tops albums