“Reach Out, I'll Be There” by The Four Tops

"Reach Out, I'll Be There" hit the shops on August 18, 1966, cut for the Four Tops by Holland–Dozier–Holland, the writing-and-production team that drove Motown's hit machine, and it went all the way: two weeks at number one on the Hot 100 and two on the R&B chart that October, then three weeks on top in Britain, only the second Motown record to pull that off after the Supremes' "Baby Love".

It finished as the number five hit of the year on Billboard's year-end list, turned up on the Four Top Hits EP, and joined a full album the next July, on Reach Out, the group's fourth. Rolling Stone later put it at 206 among the 500 greatest songs, and in 2022 the Library of Congress added it to the National Recording Registry.

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