THE FOUR TOPS - I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)

[potterjo6]

just brilliant!

[jamar22100]

Them boys can move.

[salvypimp]

That sax is too sexy

[jcjlf]

these dancesteps are awesome good

[FabeFangs]

the good old days when girls really went crazy over talent..

[toddcharry]

I love the old Motown sound.

[SheffieldBeagles]

Anybody else old enough to remember when you needed talent to succeed in this business? Now, mostly, it's the kind of business my dogs do on the grass. Business! Drop it. Good boy. Bollocks.

[mickhutchinson]

Brilliant .

[billy12080]

I love these guys!

[Cseellee]

What year is this video from ?

[LokiTheMisfit]

They sure don't make em like this anymore :/

[songwriter77]

The great Motown sound

[eatthatpopcorn]

holland-dozier-holland are so brilliant! i don't know how they came up with all these remarkable songs!

[goatmom1]

Sugar Pie, Honey Butt! I love you and nobody else! I can't wait until you get here!!!!!

I soopa love you, it's twoo!!!

SK

[SlovakDJH]

Man, it is a real pleasure to watch this

[genevincent89]

TRUE entertainers.

[thehomemagnolia]

Haha i didnt know hitler sang backup vox for the four tops

[hafaball]

i wonder who else they have hiding in the shadows o.o

[BuddyGreenfield]

I love Levi and Sam Cook- Voices like a whole new instrument or color added to life.

[redbow18]

I cant put into words how much i love this song! ive spent many a day in my room singing this song. by myself. *sigh* im such a dork :D

[MrLevistubbs]

2 years today 9-17-10 since levi's been gone. it's still like a nightmare i can't wake up from.

[Mslovely1919]

this group that really didn't get the recognition that they deserved

[sneezyize]

Major & very funny misheard lyric for me in this song & I'm wondering if anyone else hears it? When Levi Stubbs sings that "You come and you go, leaving just your pictrue behind." Does anyone else mishear it as, "You come and you go, leaving just your 'pizza' behind."? I just hope when she left that pizza behind it was deep dish, with mozzarella cheese, Italian meatballs, perhaps some mushrooms and olives!

[rachaelfandrew]

legends! what a song :-)

[unicaxloks]

;'D

[MrSpeed1984]

instant classic...

[flyinghiagain]

i would give up tv and cell phones and all technology to go back to live in the these time and day.. any day....!!!!!

[kickassfan]

u go Tops!!!!!!!!!!

[jdlim]

who would thumb this video down?!

[MrLevistubbs]

levi has a different look without his trademark line. he's completely shaved

[Surt811]

I'm told that I used to hold the bars of my crib and bounce to this when I was a baby.

[jive5willie]

@Surt811 That's funny! When my son was about 1 or 2, he would always stop what he was doing to listen to the them music of Fresh Prince of Bel Air. When I was a kid, I used to sit in the chair & rock back n forth to the Spider-Man theme music.

[southernsugar59]

Back in those Motown days Mr. Gordy made his singers dress, talk, and act like gentlemen---at least onstage. No way would he have tolerated saggy pants and vulgar language from his singers.

[TheCapirena]

@southernsugar59 that was when singers were true and inspired, they did it to actually express their feeling and entertain, plus back then blacks and whites alike were decent and respectful of the audience and knew they were role models for the rest of the world, not like now, jumping across the stage and their pants hanging off their butts and too short, and girls showing their uterus with that clothing

[oolumee]

@southernsugar59 Nice comment and I am Gex-X.

[aliceborealis]

@southernsugar59 That's cos he was a douche bag.

[aliceborealis]

@southernsugar59 That's cos he was a douche bag.

[Mycrosss]

@southernsugar59 What's wrong with saggy pants?

[AllBobsAllTheTime]

@southernsugar59 Still good music, though!!!

[MrsThurman0807]

Oh my God ..after watching the video more closely..I retract that statement..the four tops are awesome dancers compared to those white people back there trying to dance!!!! At least they have some soul in their moves...meanwhile the whites are back there moving around awkardly and trying to figure out what to do with their hands!! HAHA!! And I am white!!

[MrsThurman0807]

Awesome voice..who gives a shit if they can't dance?? I doubt most of you can either without looking like a complete ASS.

[candiekisses39]

i saw this song when i was little and my mom tape me old film dancing to it when my brother was in the army and he should all his  army friends lol......

[smoothmicra]

Early Boy Band material! The fact is, The Four Tops couldn't really dance, never mind the backround girls. Who knows, with a bit more rehearsal to synchronise the moves these guys could have been as big as The Beetles (or Jesus!)

[wes170]

Boy Band material?? Vocal group, rather than compare them to Boyzone and Take That, and they were all in their late 20s when they performed this, hardly boys! Also as they said they were SINGERS, not dancers...

[AerithGainsborough11]

You know,at first I didn't want to watch this vid just because it was live,and now days singers (not all of them are this way) can't sing....so they get their voices edited. Then when they sing live it sounds really bad...but these folks,they have tatent! XD

[MrsThurman0807]

@AerithGainsborough11 You are completely right!! Nowadays when 99% of them try to sing live it SUCKS and it is a TOTALLY different sound than you hear on the radio. I've heard some that I couldn't even tell were the same people! Back then people had TALENT...only very few of them have that kind of talent nowadays.I wonder why that is???

[AerithGainsborough11]

Thank you! I know! Tell me about it,I can't believe some people even have fans!

I think it's because back then people who couldn't sing just stayed away,but now people are so hungry for fame they don't care what they sound like.

[memorysticky]

@AerithGainsborough11 Talent? Wheres the drummer etc?

WHeres the damn band? its just a bunch of guys tap stepping to a record.

[mrchickatees]

@memorysticky that is the point these guys dont need a band just give them a mic and they still sound unbelieveable. check out their acapella stuff on here. there is not one vocalist today that could come even close to these guys. levi stubbs is with out doubt the best vocalist ever.

[funkateerkitty]

@mrchickatees sho U right!

Levi should be remembered for his wonderful voice :)

[eatthatpopcorn]

@AerithGainsborough11 The recording of Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is" is his first take. One take and he left the studio. What talent!

[notessimodude]

@AerithGainsborough11 If I had to say why, I'd say it's because today's society revolves around physical looks of the singer (just the mainstream stuff), while back then it revolved around talent. Today if you have good looks and a barable voice, you'll get a record deal. It just so happened that the singer of the four tops was handsome, no homo.

[ForHizGlory06]

I don't mean no harm....those back up dancers are terrible....especially the white ones....no harm intended. LOl

[heavyxpress3000]

let me do it. those were the worst dancers ever ive see better on soul train and band stand and we all know they cant dance on those shows

[Azizip17]

@heavyxpress3000 What?! The people on Soul Train certainly could dance & did dance well. As for Bandstand, maybe some of the regulars could dance, but they weren't in the same league as the Soultrain dancers.

[SModikoane]

You have to understand the times, then. It was a time when whites and blacks didn't mix in public. So, the fact that a bunch of white people ran on stage, was actually a way to promote racial harmony. At the time there were race riots and and integration going on in the South. You cannot imagine the now, the hardship for the African Americans at the time. Putting the whites on stage was an attempt to stop the racial tension at the time.

[xPeaceloveandmusicx]

@ForHizGlory06 The people behind them are horrible dancers and all the other people as well, but those people on the stage at the back are mainly back up singers.

[Multi3ric]

good

[kookaburrakookaburra]

In Vietnam they used to have band in Liberties dance hall on Dong Khoi street they did it good. Girl band.

[SuggarPye]

Love that era of music....great song

[ShatteredVinyl]

Good use of Bari Sax.

[paulaifield]

Times were so different then. I grew up in my teens with this group. Will miss Levi always. I fell in and out of love to their songs in my youth!!

[bajabax]

1965 Amarillo AFB, getting ready for overseas, I was just a kid, but listening to this song was beautiful.

[BARBIEDANCER1323]

Love their harmony

[PJfansrock]

I love the go-go dancers! The dances back then are so cool too! And the way they dress is hot... I think.

[FOURTOPS4EVER]

One of their greatest hits.

[tomonsterboy]

I'll never get tired of this! Hardest working people in the business and God bless every one of 'em!

[tigerincanada]

Saw the Tops live on several occasions including brilliant times in Sheffield with Steve, Cliff, Geoff and Rog from Darlo. Good times .. brilliant times ... I love ya lads wherever you are!

[MrLevistubbs]

Levi sure has a different look clean shaved and short hair

[Echelonrocker77]

im a headbanger 2 and i dont know y i love this song

its wierd

[Geepsterr]

Check out Bernadette too. As Motown goes this song has a rather Headbanger structure to it, as does Where Did Our Love go mentioned below. The real reason is good writing being delivered with conviction and quality. Of course your gonna like it. Check it out: I know these records nearly too well and this is not a lip sync. Much more organ on this and the sax solo is improvised differently. Arrangement is abridged .

[mloaks]

And, Still Waters

[avenged7fold90]

dude ima head banger but i duno why i love this song so much!

[MrCamp870]

Motown and Doowap music will never die.

[Skizzify]

i looove this song!

[mattrocks82]

i love this song i hear it on the radio like every day!

[XenesthisX]

i love this!!!can´t stopp singing it :)

[Moydrumm]

This is great!

It only reminds me of ''Where did our love go'' from The Supremes... Ah well, same label! :D

[jeffreypaulbobrick]

The same songwriters!!! Holland-Dozier-Holland

[untitledmuziq]

We need more four tops on youtube. THANKS!

[slejzi123]

<3333 zawsze poprawia mi humor !! ajc !

[missiec88]

love this song.

[powerman2g]

Great live performance!!! Thanks for this.

[steveperryisawesome]

Another classic from the peak of the Motwon sound in the mid 60's

Man I wish I was old enough to hear all those amazing songs on the radio.

Holland/Dozier/Holland were amazing songwriters! I loved how that made all there words rhyme mleodically!

[NunsAllowed]

I was old enough to do that.

I would much prefer to be young and watch this stuff on YouTube.

[mattrocks82]

well if you listen to the radio ( who doesn't) you just have to find your local Olidies channel bc we have one here and this song is reguraly played!

[zugrook101]

My sentiments exactly "fouveke". Its the usual scenario you appreciate the classics as you get older. I reckon when I'm ninety its all about mozart.

[Serenephile]

thank you for uploading, i love watching orginal performances, especially of "oldies", its a glimpse from a glorious past of music.

[loveupskirts]

liking this

[fouveke]

when i hear this, i know 1 thing : i hate i'm born to late. i think i missed a lot ...

[ElisaN92]

same here =(

[simonsez0800]

i have this on tape,i also got there new dvd release and on the dvd duke said there singers not dancers but the for tops is dancing there butt off on here

[Redboy4]

They were really good dancers I think. I liked that they weren't overly caught up in choreography, its there but not "too" much. Their stage moves always have more of a natural feel to them, esp. Duke, who I always liked watching the most.

[Bogicska]

de cukik

[elduuude]

woo-hoo!!!

[buffspringfield]

LOVE this tune

[tuzwol]

The 4 Tops were the greatest foursome ever assembled