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The Creative Engine Behind Motown
Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote and produced an extraordinary number of hit records
The Four Tops.
Marvin Gaye.
Martha and the Vandellas.
The Miracles.
The Supremes.
The Temptations.
Some of the classic performing artists who helped make “the Motown sound” a 1960s music phenomenon.
But it was three men who were responsible for creating many of the hit songs these artists recorded. The unique songwriting/producing team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland, better known as Holland-Dozier-Holland or H/D/H, composed over 400 songs, among them such smash hits as:
- “Baby I Need Your Loving,” “Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch (I Can’t Help Myself),” “It’s the Same Old Song” (The Four Tops)
- “Baby Don’t You Do It,” “Can I Get a Witness,” “How Sweet It Is (to Be Loved By You)” (Marvin Gaye)
- “Heat Wave,” “Quicksand,” “Nowhere to Run” (Martha and the Vandellas)
- “Baby Love,” “Stop in the Name of Love,” You Keep Me Hangin’ On” (The Supremes).
