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7 Rooms of Gloom

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B-side
  
"I'll Turn to Stone"

Format
  
7" single

Length
  
2:46

Released
  
May 2, 1967

Genre
  
Soul, pop

Recorded
  
Hitsville U.S.A. (Studio A); 1967

"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, 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 and in the Netherlands where it made #23 in the Dutch Top 40.

Described as "throbbing with dread over a racing minor key dominated arrangement" it was written by Holland–Dozier–Holland. The single's B-Side was "I'll Turn to Stone" also written by Holland-Dozier-Holland with R Dean Taylor. That song made a separate chart entry, and peaked at #76 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #50 on the R&B Charts.

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

    7-Rooms of Gloom Wikipedia