"I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" is a 1965 hit song recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, the song is one of the most well-known Motown tunes of the 1960s. The song hit number one on the R&B charts and was also the number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100 for two non-consecutive weeks,. from June 12 to June 19 and from June 26 to July 3 in 1965.
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- "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" is a 1965 hit song recorded by the Four Tops for the Motown label. Written and produced by Motown's main production team Holland-Dozier-Holland, the song is one of the most well-known Motown tunes of the 1960s. The song hit number one on the R&B charts and was also the number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100 for two non-consecutive weeks,. from June 12 to June 19 and from June 26 to July 3 in 1965. It replaced "Back in My Arms Again" by labelmates The Supremes, was first replaced by "Mr. Tambourine Man" by The Byrds, then regained the top spot before being replaced by "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" by The Rolling Stones. The song finds lead singer Levi Stubbs, assisted by the other three Tops and The Andantes, pleadingly professing his love to a woman: "Sugar pie, honey bunch/I'm weaker than a man should be!/Can't help myself/I'm a fool in love, you see. " Like most of his lead parts, Stubbs' vocals are recorded in a tone that straddles the line between singing and shouting, similar to the tone of a black Baptist preacher. The melodic and chordal progressions are very similar to the Supremes' "Where Did Our Love Go". Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song #415 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It has been covered extensively since 1965, including versions done for several television commercials.
- "I Can't Help Myself", ook wel bekend als "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)", is een hitsingle van de Amerikaanse soul- en R&B groep, The Four Tops. Samen met "Reach Out, I'll Be There" is dit de meest succesvolle single van de groep. "I Can't Help Myself" was namelijk de eerste #1 hit van The Four Tops en samen met "Reach Out, I'll Be There" de enige op de poplijst. Op de Amerikaanse hitlijst stootte "I Can't Help Myself" een ander Motown nummer van de top van de lijst af, namelijk "Back In My Arms Again" van The Supremes. Het was niet alleen de eerste #1 hit van de groep in de poplijst, maar ook op de R&B lijst. Daarnaast was het de eerste single van The Four Tops die de top 40 in het Verenigd Koninkrijk bereikte. Uiteindelijk bleef "I Can't Help Myself" in Groot-Brittannië op #23 steken. De re-issue van het nummer uit 1970 bereikte overigens de #10 in het Verenigd Koninkrijk. In tegenstelling tot zijn voorganger "Ask The Lonely", maar net als "Baby I Need Your Loving" werd "I Can't Help Myself" geschreven door Holland-Dozier-Holland, het songwriterstrio dat ook al #1 hits als "Where Did Our Love Go" en "Come See About Me" voor The Supremes had geschreven. Het onderwerp van het nummer is dat de verteller zich verontschuldigt aan zijn geliefde voor zijn gedrag. Hij vertelt er echter bij dat hij er niks aan kan doen, omdat hij zo vreselijk verliefd op haar is. De verteller in de versie van The Four Tops is leadzanger Levi Stubbs. Hij haatte het nummer en wilde het ook niet opnemen. Producer Brian Holland haalde uiteindelijk The Four Tops over om "I Can't Help Myself" toch op te nemen. Na de opname vond Stubbs het nog steeds een vreselijk nummer. Holland stelde hem gerust door te zeggen dat ze de volgende dag het nummer nog wel een keer zouden opnemen. Dit gebeurde echter niet doordat Holland-Dozier-Holland meer dan tevreden was met die versie. Uiteindelijk kwam de single op #1 en waren The Four Tops heel tevreden met het nummer. De B-kant van "I Can't Help Myself" is het nummer "Sad Souvenirs". In tegenstelling tot de A-kant van de single is dit nummer wel geschreven door William "Mickey" Stevenson en Ivy Jo Hunter. "Sad Souvenirs" zou later onder andere gecoverd worden door The Isley Brothers en door Marvin Gaye. Ook "I Can't Help Myself" werd gecoverd. Er bestaan veel versies van het nummer, naast die van The Four Tops. Zo hebben onder andere ook The Supremes, Dolly Parton, La Toya Jackson, The Funk Brothers en Bonnie Pointer het nummer opgenomen. Ook werd het nummer gebruikt in de films Rat Race en Shark Tale.
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- "I Can't Help Myself", ook wel bekend als "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)", is een hitsingle van de Amerikaanse soul- en R&B groep, The Four Tops. Samen met "Reach Out, I'll Be There" is dit de meest succesvolle single van de groep. "I Can't Help Myself" was namelijk de eerste #1 hit van The Four Tops en samen met "Reach Out, I'll Be There" de enige op de poplijst.
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