Reach Out I’ll Be There With The Four Tops
December 2, 2008 by EditMotown50
Filed under Four Tops, Motown 50 Disc 2
Considered by many to be the most popular Four Tops song ever, “Reach out, I’ll be there” charted in 1966. It was one of many hit singles for the group, who ultimately spent many years with Motown – although they did work with other labels at different times. In fact, until the death of Lawrence Payton in 1997 – the Group performed continuously as a quartet until 1997, a staggering forty-three years! The other members of the Group being: Levi Stubbs, Abdul (Duke) Fakir and Renaldo (Obie) Benson.
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This must be the most highly played Four tops track. I still rate it highly all these years later – I guess that makes it a classic.
I remember listening to this on a tiny transistor radio under the bed covers after lights out at boarding school, all the way from a very dodgy pirate Radio Caroline.