You Keep Running Away
{{Infobox song
| name = You Keep Running Away
| cover =
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Four Tops
| album = Four Tops Greatest Hits Vol. 2
| B-side = If You Don't Want My Love
| released = 1967
| recorded = 1967
| studio =
| venue =
| length = 2:48
| label = Motown
| writer = Holland-Dozier-Holland
| producer = Holland-Dozier-Holland
| prev_title = 7 Rooms of Gloom
| prev_year = 1967
| next_title = Walk Away Renée
| next_year = 1968
}}
"You Keep Running Away" is a Holland-Dozier-Holland composition originally recorded in 1967 by the Four Tops.{{cite web | url=http://www.discogs.com/Four-Tops-You-Keep-Running-Away/release/1940056 | title=You Keep Running Away | year=1967 | publisher=www.discogs.com | access-date=October 7, 2011}} 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."{{cite news|newspaper=Billboard|accessdate=2021-02-25|date=September 9, 1967|page=18|title=Spotlight Singles|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Billboard/60s/1967/Billboard%201967-09-09.pdf}}
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.{{cite book |title= Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004|last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |publisher=Record Research |page=212}}
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!Chart (1967) !Peak |
| align="left"|U.K. Singles Chart{{cite web|title=officialcharts.com|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/artist/11856/four-tops/|website=officialcharts.com|accessdate=July 6, 2021}}
|align="center"|26 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100
|align="center"|19 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles
|align="center"|7 |
References
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{{Four Tops singles}}
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Category:Songs written by Holland–Dozier–Holland
Category:Song recordings produced by Brian Holland
Category:Song recordings produced by Lamont Dozier
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