BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20191124T000000Z DTEND:20191124T030000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:The Four Tops DESCRIPTION:The quartet\, originally called the Four Aims\, made their first single for Chess in 1956\, and spent seven years on the road and in nightclubs\, singing pop\, blues\, Broadway\, but mostly jazz four-part harmony jazz. When Motown's Berry Gordy Jr. found out they had hustled a national "Tonight Show" appearance\, he signed them without an audition to be the marquee act for the company's Workshop Jazz label. That proved short-lived\, and Stubbs' powerhouse baritone lead and the exquisite harmonies of Fakir\, Benson\, and Payton started making one smash after another with the writing-producing trio Holland-Dozier-Holland. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:The quartet\, originally called the Four Aims\, made their first single for Chess in 1956\, and spent seven years on the road and in nightclubs\, singing pop\, blues\, Broadway\, but mostly jazz&mdash\;four-part harmony jazz. When Motown&rsquo\;s Berry Gordy Jr. found out they had hustled a national &ldquo\;Tonight Show&rdquo\; appearance\, he signed them without an audition to be the marquee act for the company&rsquo\;s Workshop Jazz label. That proved short-lived\, and Stubbs&rsquo\; powerhouse baritone lead and the exquisite harmonies of Fakir\, Benson\, and Payton started making one smash after another with the writing-producing trio Holland-Dozier-Holland. LOCATION:The Paramount Theatre\, 30 Center St.\, Rutland UID:e.3464.1377 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260501T152239Z URL:https://members.rutlandvermont.com/events/details/the-four-tops-1377 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR