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Described as "throbbing with dread over a racing [[minor key]] dominated arrangement"<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JRHnCMUVb8C&pg=PA50&dq=four+tops+7+rooms&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BtDhUYrALseFiQffiIHgCw&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=four%20tops%207%20rooms&f=false | title=Motown The Golden Years | accessdate=14 July 2013 | author=Dahl, Bill}}</ref> it was written by [[Holland–Dozier–Holland]]. The single's [[B-Side]] was "I'll Turn to Stone"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Four-Tops-7-Rooms-Of-Gloom-Ill-Turn-To-Stone/release/649892|title=Four Tops – 7-Rooms Of Gloom / I'll Turn To Stone|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=13 July 2013}}</ref> also written by Holland-Dozier-Holland with [[R Dean Taylor]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/ill-turn-to-stone-mt0045219479 | title=I'll Turn to Stone | publisher=Allmusic | accessdate=14 July 2013}}</ref> That song made a separate chart entry, and peaked at #76 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #50 on the [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B Charts]]. |
Described as "throbbing with dread over a racing [[minor key]] dominated arrangement"<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8JRHnCMUVb8C&pg=PA50&dq=four+tops+7+rooms&hl=en&sa=X&ei=BtDhUYrALseFiQffiIHgCw&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=four%20tops%207%20rooms&f=false | title=Motown The Golden Years | accessdate=14 July 2013 | author=Dahl, Bill}}</ref> it was written by [[Holland–Dozier–Holland]]. The single's [[B-Side]] was "I'll Turn to Stone"<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Four-Tops-7-Rooms-Of-Gloom-Ill-Turn-To-Stone/release/649892|title=Four Tops – 7-Rooms Of Gloom / I'll Turn To Stone|publisher=Discogs|accessdate=13 July 2013}}</ref> also written by Holland-Dozier-Holland with [[R Dean Taylor]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/song/ill-turn-to-stone-mt0045219479 | title=I'll Turn to Stone | publisher=Allmusic | accessdate=14 July 2013}}</ref> That song made a separate chart entry, and peaked at #76 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and #50 on the [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B Charts]]. |
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Levi Stubbs does the spoken refrains. The first one goes: |
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"I see a house/ A house of Stone/ A lonely house/ 'Cause now you're gone/ Seven Rooms, That's all it is/ Seven Rooms of Gloom"/ (Sung) "I live with emptiness/ Without your Tenderness"/ |
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The Four Tops disliked the song, and have refused to perform it in concert (SOURCE: Big 11 Countdown with Johnny Hays on Hit Radio 1110 KRLA.) |
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Pat Benatar did a version of the song. |
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==Personnel== |
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"7-Rooms of Gloom" is a song recorded by the Motown Records vocal quartet The Four Tops. It was released as a single in 1967 on the Motown label and reached #14 on the Billboard Hot 100,[1] and was a Top 10 R&B Hit, charting at #10. It was also a hit in the UK, their seventh, staying for nine weeks in the UK Singles Charts and reaching #12[2] and in the Netherlands where it made #23 in the Dutch Top 40.[3]
Described as "throbbing with dread over a racing minor key dominated arrangement"[4] it was written by Holland–Dozier–Holland. The single's B-Side was "I'll Turn to Stone"[5] also written by Holland-Dozier-Holland with R Dean Taylor.[6] That song made a separate chart entry, and peaked at #76 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #50 on the R&B Charts.
Levi Stubbs does the spoken refrains. The first one goes:
"I see a house/ A house of Stone/ A lonely house/ 'Cause now you're gone/ Seven Rooms, That's all it is/ Seven Rooms of Gloom"/ (Sung) "I live with emptiness/ Without your Tenderness"/
The Four Tops disliked the song, and have refused to perform it in concert (SOURCE: Big 11 Countdown with Johnny Hays on Hit Radio 1110 KRLA.)
Pat Benatar did a version of the song.
Personnel
- Levi Stubbs – lead vocals
- Abdul "Duke" Fakir – background vocals
- Renaldo "Obie" Benson – background vocals
- Lawrence Payton – background vocals
- Jackie Hicks – background vocals
- Marlene Barrow – background vocals
- Louvain Demps – background vocals
- Funk Brothers – instrumentation
References
- ^ "Four Tops – Awards". Allmusic. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Official Charts – Four Tops". www.officialcharts.com. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "The Four Tops – 7 Rooms Of Gloom". www.top40.nl. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ Dahl, Bill. Motown The Golden Years. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
- ^ "Four Tops – 7-Rooms Of Gloom / I'll Turn To Stone". Discogs. Retrieved 13 July 2013.
- ^ "I'll Turn to Stone". Allmusic. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
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