About "7 Rooms Of Gloom"
"7 Rooms of Gloom" is a song originally 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.
Cash Box called it a "thumping, fast-moving, blues-oriented rocker" that is a "real powerhouse." Record World called it "Top notch wailing from the Detroit group."The song begins with Levi Stubbs doing a spoken recitation, which gets repeated twice with alterations.
In 1985, Pat Benatar covered the song on her album, Seven the Hard Way.
Top songs by Four Tops
- Reach Out I'll Be There
- Baby, I Need Your Lovin'
- Bernadette
- I Can't Help Myself
- I Can't Help Myself (sugar Pie Honey Bunch)
- Loco In Acapulco
- If I Were A Carpenter
- It's The Same Old Song
- Standing In The Shadows Of Love
- (it's The Way) Nature Planned It
- Walk Away Renee
- 7 Rooms Of Gloom
- Something About You
- It's All In The Game
- Yesterday's Dreams
- Ask The Lonely
- A Simple Game
- Shake Me, Wake Me (when It's Over)
- Still Water (love)
- Ain't No Woman (like The One I Got)
- Indestructible
- You Keep Running Away
- Bluesette
- Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever
- Keeper Of The Castle
- What Is A Man
- Baby I Need Your Loving
- Just Seven Numbers (can Straighten Out My Life)
- A Different World
- I Know I'm Losing You
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