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Reach Out is the fourth studio album by the Four Tops, issued on Motown Records in July 1967. The group's biggest-selling studio album, Reach Out includes six of the Four Tops' most successful singles including the US and UK #1 hit "Reach Out I'll Be There", "Standing in the Shadows of Love", "Bernadette" and "7-Rooms of Gloom".
August 1966 brought the release of the Four Tops' all-time biggest hit and one of the most popular Motown songs ever. "Reach Out I'll Be There" reached number 1 on the U.S. pop and R&B charts [4] and the UK chart and soon became the Tops' signature song. [3]
"Reach Out I'll Be There" (also formatted as "Reach Out (I'll Be There)") is a song recorded by the American vocal quartet Four Tops from their fourth studio album, Reach Out (1967). Written and produced by Motown 's main production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland , [ 3 ] the song is one of the most widely-known Motown hits of the 1960s and is ...
The progression is also used entirely with minor chords[i-v-vii-iv (g#, d#, f#, c#)] in the middle section of Chopin's etude op. 10 no. 12. However, using the same chord type (major or minor) on all four chords causes it to feel more like a sequence of descending fourths than a bona fide chord progression.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love — and compassion. In 1966, Four Tops, Motown’s second-greatest male vocal group, after the Temptations, delivered both with their signature hit ...
"Just as Long as You Need Me" (from Four Tops Second Album) 18 5 — 52 — — — — On Top "Loving You Is Sweeter Than Ever" "I Like Everything About You" (from Four Tops Second Album) 45 12 — 35 — — — 21 "Reach Out I'll Be There" "Until You Love Someone" (from On Top) 1 1 10 6 13 4 6 1 RIAA: Gold [14] BPI: Gold [5] Reach Out ...
[2] The song reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100, #8 on the Cash Box Top 100. [3] On the R&B chart, "Bernadette" went to #3.. [4] It also reached #8 in the UK and was a hit again in 1972, reaching #23. [5] The song is notable for its false ending, where the instruments drop out and the background singers hold a chord.
In the key of C, C/E (C major first inversion, with E bass) is written as 1/3; G/B is written as 5/7; Am/G (an inversion of Am7) is written as 6m/5; F/G (F major with G bass) is 4/5. Just as with simple chords, the numbers refer to scale degrees; specifically, the scale degree number used for the bass note is that of the note's position in the ...