I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) by The Four Tops was used in the movies Into the Night (1985), My Blue Heaven (1990), Forrest Gump (1994), Rat Race (2001) and Shark Tale (2004).
_I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) was the first US #1 hit for The Four Tops, and it was a big one, topping the Hot 100 for two weeks and the R&B chart for an amazing nine. The song was written by the wildly successful 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.
In the UK, this was the group's first single, issued with their American Motown debut, "Baby I Need Your Loving," as the B-side. It was released to coincide with their first European tour in the summer of 1965, and reached #23. In 1970, it was re-released in the UK and hit #10.
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