Saturday, October 15, 2016
"Reach Out I'll Be There" #1 10/15/1966
One of the bedrock songs of Motown. Holland-Dozier-Holland scored again by writing the Four Tops' second #1 hit, but at the recording session the Tops regarded this as a throwaway. H-D-H might have subconsciously borrowed from "What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted" by Jimmy Ruffin (which they didn't write) by rhyming "confusion" and "illusion" and other stuff. The way they were cranking out material, it's hard to say.
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Melodramatic, in a minor key, with a kind of "gypsy"-style melody on the chorus.
Lyrics full of grandiose "personal promises".
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