Four Tops Bernadette (a cappella)

[@JaniceCarter-ws7lu]

AMEN to those Bernadettes (Your name) around the world who are tresured by their men because they know that you're a Gift from the Lord😌 *The 4 Tops* God Bless them All and their Families❤❤❤❤❤ Imagine being the women that he wrote this song for I would of been like...😲🥹🥲 Levi Stubbs⚘️

[@eddiebills6569]

what a wonderful beautiful voice R.I.P. Levi Stubbs.

[@cilla-themusiclover]

The unmistakable VOICE of Levi Stubbs!

[@goldenbaby3608]

The immortal Levi Stubb's delivery is unlike no other....

[@bigbopper6434]

Levi's voice is a national treasure... That voice burns its way into every soul that hears this song...

[@VIDEOHEREBOB]

What a voice.

[@catherinelynnfraser2001]

Levi just continues to break my heart. The sound of soul and ever and always❤️

[@merceddominguez2170]

"BERNADETTE, I NEED YOU BC I NEED YOU TO LIVE"... DAMN, WISH SOMEONE LOVED ME LIKE THAT...OK, JUST WASN'T MEANT TO BE~ MAYBE NEXT LIFE TIME. MY FAVE IS "STILL WATERS", LONG PLAY~ TO ME, HIS SIGNATURE SONG~ 3 TOPS, IN THE ARMS OF ANGELS 💜

[@chuckgray7219]

A dynamic voice that will forever be missed and can never in the universe be duplicated LEVI STUBBS JR FOREVER ✊🏾

[@hoppinboxcars4545]

Hits the heart string everytime.

[@kayvancooten4657]

Levi Stubbs, the best ever Motown frontman. ❤️ 🎶

[@daveseale5583]

voice of king all ways gave his all , the tops top man love him .them to bits

[@brodocbetty4856]

His delivery was powerful.

[@lindas.baldwin6657]

Levi Stubbs....his voice truly a masterpiece!

[@ckeeling12]

Indeed!!

[@joeyfitz9]

Levi was it. Levi Stubbs was it. He just has something that really gets to me like no one else.

[@Barnaby150]

Instant goosebumps

[@daveseale5583]

great man true man one of the best people that was every born

[@jasonnstegall]

Oh, the agony and sorrow bordering on paranoia...is even more pronounced in this a Capella mix.

[@tommythecat4961]

This is SIMPLY AMAZING!

[@rollerchickable]

I Love This Song Thank You For Sharing.

[@tahirahasim2424]

I want to say is Levi stubbs he got a great voice in can sing too

[@danielburress5088]

I love those accapellas

[@blackvirgo82]

Legendary voice the great and late Levi Stubbs

[@nancyhanley6558]

Levi could sing ANYTHING, make it sound soulful, raw and operatic all at the same time. He was even better than Wilson Pickett was, and that's saying a lot, cuz Wilson was superb!

[@HappyRareGrooveMan]

Still can hear the background music

[@paulfell4962]

LEVI, I never though I could be more impressed by your voice, I was wrong. I'm in tears listening this, beyond amazing!

[@Deb526]

Incredible. Go to 2:40. Levi says it all.

[@johncoleman3953]

So deep, rich, raw and soulful! Wow

[@Meekseek]

Nice, thank you for sharing.

[@terrencemichaelcruz1801]

This is great!!! Love that dude

[@kevintrace5396]

Levi Stubbs what a voice wow

[@jesincere8589]

Levi one of the most beautiful lead singers of all time, only that much more magnificent with the equally GREAT Andantes on backgrounds.

[@bernadette607]

This absolutely stunning.. wow.

[@strcilin]

The school of soul singing.

[@trubrit5036]

I would love to know the story behind this recording. His voice is perfection!

[@nancyhanley6558]

"Bernadette" was written by an Italian fellow who approached Berry Gordy and I guess Holland, Lamont Dozier and the Four Tops. Levi was skeptical about the song, but he heard some of the lyrics in Italian to "get a message across." This was according to Levi in the Motown 5-album set that came out in the early seventies (I have that set, many artists were interviewed, and it's a great album set).

[@trubrit5036]

@@nancyhanley6558 Thank you for this information. I'm glad I am back here listening, or I would have missed your reply.

[@thomasnelson5758]

@@nancyhanley6558 Italian fellow? The credited songwriters are Holland-Dozier-Holland, and your comment is the first account I've ever heard of any Italian guy, the only reference I could find to anything Italian was this interview excerpt with Lamont Dozier on Songfacts: "So was there really a "Bernadette"? Yes, and more than one. Dozier explained to Hits magazine in 2003: "There were three Bernadettes, and they were all different girls. We sorta kept that to ourselves that we all had our own Bernadette. We always said, we'd never bring a girlfriend's name into the songs. We had this hidden thing when the name came up, so we didn't say anything. So at least two of us were thinking about the Bernadettes we knew." In Dozier's case, "Bernadette" was inspired by his unrequited love for a girl when he was 12; a "beautiful Italian girl with eyes for somebody else."

[@terrencemichaelcruz1801]

​@@thomasnelson5758True story..

[@Braglemaster123]

Great, foot tap

[@bernadette9444]

Omg!!!!!

[@patrickhicks9880]

i like this better than the finished record such a great voice

[@twiztidlestat]

This is the finished record vocals, it just isolated the other instruments

[@teddyj.3198]

@@twiztidlestatthat’s what he means

[@Utilitarismopastroni]

1:45 My God mm mmm mmm

[@VIDEOHEREBOB]

Who today sounds anything close to this?

[@sidneybarbaradorsey694]

Levi, Levi, Levi my my my! I'd marry him if I wasn't already married and he wasn't married and if he was still alive

[@firstptr3and10_]

Sidney Barbara Dorsey ....you are so crazy m hahaha

[@MsAppassionata]

Sidney Barbara Dorsey That’s a lot of ifs. 😂

[@onepointofview]

so close

[@phuturelee3420]

For the life of me I cannot figure out why artists are slow on creativity and fast with getting likes. It's not old school...it's school. Music is timeless. Shame what happened to music.

[@sierria64]

That voice

[@jasondawson8938]

ALL GROWN MAN . THAT'S LIKE YOUR DADDY OR GRANDFATHER SINGING

[@yad2917]

Thank you for posting this. Beautiful song, and Levi’s voice brings it to life. Just beautiful…

[@toddhunt461]

🔥

[@campbellc2709]

💘💘💘

[@marknaylor2149]

choooooooooon

[@teddyj.3198]

LEVI STUBBS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME

[@dumillion23]

man! Audrey 2!

[@tahirahasim2424]

great foot tap. ...?

[@thegroveness]

35 seconds in

[@jobucats2166]

I noticed that. That foot tap added to the humanness of the recording session. One can't be completely still while delivering such powerful vocal lines.

[@sheiladavis6523]

Personally in my opinion Levi Stubbs had a much better voice than David Ruffin January 2,2021

[@teddyj.3198]

Absolutely, not even close

[@louisehesketh9231]

Completly different.😇😇

[@jobucats2166]

Different. Not better. Each was exceptional in his own way. I am more of a fan of Levi; however, David Ruffin was also at the top of his game.

[@teddyj.3198]

@@jobucats2166he really wasn’t