902 The Four Tops “Reach Out, I’ll Be There” 1966

Lamont Dozier (songwriter): “Back in ’66, we were listening to a lot to Bob Dylan. He was the poet then, and we were inspired by his talk-singing style on ‘Like a Rolling Stone.’ Dylan was something else—a guy we looked up to. We loved the complexity of his lyrics and how he spoke the lines in some places and sang them in others. We wanted Levi [Levi Stubbs, lead singer] to shout-sing the lyrics to ‘Reach Out’—as a shout-out to Dylan” (Marc Myers, Anatomy of a Song, 2016). 

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