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1967 single by Four Tops
"You Keep Running Away"
Single by Four Tops
from the album Four Tops Greatest Hits Vol. 2
B-side"If You Don't Want My Love"
Released1967
Recorded1967
GenreR&B, soul
Length2:48
LabelMotown
Songwriter(s)Holland-Dozier-Holland
Producer(s)Holland-Dozier-Holland
Four Tops singles chronology
"7 Rooms of Gloom"
(1967) 		"You Keep Running Away"
(1967) 		"Walk Away Renée"
(1968)

"You Keep Running Away" is a Holland-Dozier-Holland composition originally recorded in 1967 by the Four Tops. The song appears on their 1971 LP Four Tops Greatest Hits Vol. 2. Billboard described the single as a "solid easy heat rocker that moves from start to finish has all the ingredients for another chart topper."

Background

As in many of their other songs, the Andantes augmented the background vocals. This was one of the last few HDH releases by the Four Tops.

Chart history

"You Keep Running Away" went to number seven on the R&B charts and number nineteen on the Hot 100.

Chart (1967) Peak
position
U.K. Singles Chart 26
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 19
U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles 7

References

  1. "You Keep Running Away". www.discogs.com. 1967. Retrieved October 7, 2011.
  2. "Spotlight Singles" (PDF). Billboard. September 9, 1967. p. 18. Retrieved 2021-02-25.
  3. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 212.
  4. "officialcharts.com". officialcharts.com. Retrieved July 6, 2021.
Four Tops singles discography
1960s
1964
"Baby I Need Your Loving"
"Without the One You Love (Life's Not Worth While)"
1965
"Ask the Lonely"
"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)"
"It's the Same Old Song"
"Something About You"
1966
"Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over)"
"Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever"
"Reach Out I'll Be There"
"Standing in the Shadows of Love"
1967
"Bernadette"
"7-Rooms of Gloom" / "I'll Turn to Stone"
"You Keep Running Away"
1968
"Walk Away Renée"
"If I Were a Carpenter"
"Yesterday's Dreams"
"I'm in a Different World"
1969
"What Is a Man"
"Do What You Gotta Do"
"Don't Let Him Take Your Love from Me"
1970s
1970
"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" (re-issue)
"It's All in the Game"
"Still Water (Love)"
"River Deep – Mountain High" (with The Supremes)
1971
"Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)"
"You Gotta Have Love in Your Heart" (with The Supremes)
"In These Changing Times"
"MacArthur Park (Part II)"
1972
"A Simple Game"
"Bernadette" (re-issue)
"Walk with Me, Talk with Me, Darling"
"(It's the Way) Nature Planned It"
"Keeper of the Castle"
1973
"Ain't No Woman (Like the One I've Got)"
"Are You Man Enough"
"Sweet Understanding Love"
1974
"I Just Can't Get You Out of My Mind"
"One Chain Don't Make No Prison"
"Midnight Flower"
1975
"Seven Lonely Nights"
"We All Gotta Stick Together"
1976
"Catfish"
"I'm Glad You Walked into My Life"
1980s
1981
"When She Was My Girl"
"Don't Walk Away"
1982
"Let Me Set You Free"
"Back to School Again"
"Sad Hearts"
"Tonight I'm Gonna Love You All Over"
1983
"I Believe in You and Me"
"I Just Can't Walk Away"
1985
"Sexy Ways"
1988
"Reach Out I'll Be There" (re-issue)
"If Ever a Love There Was" (with Aretha Franklin)
"Indestructible"
"Loco in Acapulco"
1989
"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine"


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