The best No 1 records: the Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There

1966: With Levi Stubbs at the microphone, could this be as plausible a candidate for the ultimate No 1 as any?The drums send out signals to the distant damsel in distress, the woodwinds pine in empathy, and then Levi Stubbs rides in on a white horse, reaching down, pulling the girl from the swamp. Soul has many screamers who over-emote but Levi Stubbs is always entirely believable. Usually Four Tops songs found him standing in the shadows on a lonely street, but on Reach Out he got to be a hero ...

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