Hand gestures by the Four Tops in a video for the 1967 song Reach Out - I’ll Be there

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Recently I was watching the three-minute YouTube video for the 1967 Four Tops hit song Reach Out - I’ll Be there, which begins with a ten-second musical gallop.

 

After that, the Tops do a wonderful series of choreographed hand gestures starting with claps and continuing with lots of finger pointing, etc. Although you don’t have a production team like Motown’s famous Holland-Dozier-Holland, you can still use hand gestures to add emphasis to a speech. 

 

There is another YouTube example with their live black and white version of Standing in the Shadows of Love where lead singer Levi Stubbs is sweating profusely.

 

An image of the Four Tops was colorized from this black and white one from Wikimedia Commons.