 duke fakir once said he thought reach out i'll be there was an okay song that would make a nice album track it was one of two number one songs for the four tops along with i can't help myself sugar pie honey bunch obi created that one day many many years ago well before we come to motown because he's very fidgety he just has so much fun he just bounces around on the stage and one day he started doing this into somebody in the audience and me and levi looked at him looks kind of cool so we started doing it with him and there it was