"I Can’t Help Myself" – The Four Tops (bass tab & cover) - FRANKS BASS COVERS
Released APRIL 1965
Album: Four Tops Second Album

Bass Tab & Notes- I worked on this one for a few days and James Jamerson probably knocked it off between bites of his lunch.

The Song
Written by the Motown team of Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Eddie Holland, who wrote most of The Supremes hits.

The melody of this song is very similar to "Where Did Our Love Go," which Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote for The Supremes.

According to Lamont Dozier, the title came about because he couldn't help himself from working with the same tune.

The first US #1 hit for The Four Tops and one of the few songs that hit #1 twice in the same year on nonconsecutive 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.

It was first unseated at number one by "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, then regained the top spot before being replaced by the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".

Billboard ranked the record as the second biggest single of 1965

Musicians/Personnel
Lead vocals by Levi Stubbs
Background vocals by Abdul "Duke" Fakir, Renaldo "Obie" Benson, Lawrence Payton, and the Andantes: Jackie Hicks, Marlene Barrow, and Louvain Demps
Instrumentation by the Funk Brothers and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (strings)
Bass by James Jamerson
Baritone saxophone by Mike Terry.

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