Reach Out (Four Tops album)

Reach Out
Studio album by Four Tops
Released	July 1967
Recorded	1966–67
Genre	Soul
Label	Motown MS 660
Producer	Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Smokey Robinson, Clarence Paul
Four Tops chronology
On Broadway (1967) Reach Out (1967) Yesterday's Dreams (1968)

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Reach Out is an album recorded by the Four Tops, issued on Motown Records in July 1967. It was the final Four Tops LP to be produced by Motown's main songwriting and production team, Holland–Dozier–Holland, who departed the label in late 1967 over money disputes.

The group's most successful LP, Reach Out includes six of the Four Tops' Top 20 singles: the #1 hit "Reach Out I'll Be There", the Top 10 singles "Standing in the Shadows of Love", "Bernadette", the Top 20 "7-Rooms of Gloom", and their Top 20 covers of Tim Hardin's "If I Were a Carpenter" and the Left Banke's "Walk Away Renée").

Rounding out the LP are a pair of Monkees covers ("Last Train to Clarksville" and "I'm a Believer"), a cover of The Association's "Cherish", and the originals "Wonderful Baby" and "What Else Is There to Do (But Think About You)". Reach Out was followed a year later by a Four Tops' Greatist Hits album, which contained all of the group's hit singles to that point.

Track listing

All tracks produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier, except for "Wonderful Baby", produced by Smokey Robinson; and "What Else is There to Do (But Think About You)", produced by Clarence Paul.

1. "Reach Out I'll Be There" (Holland–Dozier–Holland)
2. "Walk Away Renée" (Bob Calilli, Michael Brown, Tony Sansone)
3. "7-Rooms of Gloom" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
4. "If I Were a Carpenter" (Tim Hardin)
5. "Last Train to Clarksville" (Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart)
6. "I'll Turn to Stone" (Holland-Dozier-Holland, R. Dean Taylor)
7. "I'm a Believer" (Neil Diamond)
8. "Standing in the Shadows of Love" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
9. "Bernadette" (Holland-Dozier-Holland)
10. "Cherish" (Terry Kirkman)
11. "Wonderful Baby" (Smokey Robinson)
12. "What Else is There to Do (But Think About You)" (Stevie Wonder, Clarence Paul, Morris Broadnax)

Credits

• Levi Stubbs: lead vocals
• Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Lawrence Payton, and The Andantes: background vocals
• The Funk Brothers: instrumentation