“I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)” by The Four Tops

Holland–Dozier–Holland wrote "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)", and the Four Tops cut it for Motown in 1965; it also sits on their Second Album. This is the Motown machine at full boil: Levi Stubbs belting the lead as if everything rides on it, Renaldo Benson, Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Lawrence Payton and the Andantes answering him, and the Funk Brothers cooking underneath, with James Jamerson on bass, Earl Van Dyke on piano, Pistol Allen on drums, Mike Terry on baritone sax, Jack Brokensha on vibes and strings from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

It spent nine weeks at the top of Billboard's R&B chart and held the peak of the Hot 100 twice that summer, trading places with the Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" until the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" moved in. Billboard ranked it the second-biggest single of the year.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.