Sparks Ignited When Motown Met Bob Dylan on Four Tops’ Compassion Anthem ‘Reach Out I’ll Be There’

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Jeremy Helligar 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, “Reach Out I’ll Be There.” As the U.S.

was suffering from the heightened trauma of a deadly global pandemic and racial reckoning last year (conditions that continue to plague the country in 2021), then-Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden chose it for his campaign soundtrack.

If you pay attention to the lyrics, it’s easy to see why he found it such an appropriate song for the times.“When you feel lost and about to give up ‘Cause your best just ain’t good enough And you feel the world has grown cold And you’re drifting out all on.