Thursday, January 3, 2019

Reach Out

Reach Out (I'll Be There) by the Four Tops may be the best song to come out of Motown in the 1960s.  Written by Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, who wrote so many of Motown's hits, Reach Out features a pounding bass line, and Levi Stubbs' inspired, straining vocal.  It was a #1 in the US and Britain.  More than a half century later it remains a great, great, song.

Note: The video says it is 1967 but the single was released in the fall of 1966.

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