Holland–Dozier–Holland

Holland- Dozier -Holland is a very successful American songwriter and producer trio of the 1960s. Abbreviated Behind the surname, in the professional world " HDH " says Brian Holland hide (* February 15, 1941 in Detroit ), his older brother Edward " Eddie" Holland ( born October 30, 1939 in Detroit ) and Lamont Herbert Dozier ( * 16 June. , 1941 in Detroit ).

The beginnings

Employer of the trio was the music publisher " Jobete Music Publishing ," the black music boss Berry Gordy was like the record label Motown Records. First, each of the three started on their own, often together with other composers, first compositions for the performer of the fledgling record label. Brian Holland authored with Robert Bateman as for the girl quintet Marvelettes Please Mr. Postman, published on 7 August 1961. The song gave the label owner Gordy ( he appears as co-writer on ) the first No. 1 ranking for Tamla Motown ( the piece was covered, among others, the Beatles and the Carpenters ).

Eddie Holland initially began as an interpreter for the " Company " as Motown was called by his employees. His play Jamie from January 1962 but had only moderate success. One of them then joined Dozier, and the first composition of HDH was Come and Get These Memories for the girl - trio Martha & the Vandellas in February 1963. The song, only a No. 29 on the pop charts, was with his chord changes and a slight shuffle rhythm, a proof that did not exist the Motown sound. With their next joint composition Heatwave for the Vandellas, they attacked in July 1963, a recent heat wave in the U.S. and transferred the concept of love. After all, they hereby achieved a fourth place in the charts. The follow-up single for the group wrote HDH in the same way. Now the quicksand ( quicksand ) was tried in November 1963 for the love relationship. This, too, made ​​the jump into the top 10 (No. 8).

The trio gave still more than a dozen average compositions from (of which benefited besides the Vandellas, the Miracles or Marvin Gaye ).

The time of the Supremes

HDH had now perfected their division of labor: Eddie Holland usually wrote the lyrics and arranged the votes, Dozier and Brian Holland composed the music and produced the song in the Motown Recording Studios (Detroit ). Brian Holland then watched the end of the session from the recording room. In this way, was written for the unknown black girl trio Supremes When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes, which came after its release in November 1963 only to No. 23. But already the follow-up single Where Did Our Love Go put the standards laid that were associated with the Motown sound commonly: a hard beat, enhanced by the " rim shot " technique on drums, light violin background music and the call-and -response vocal style. Published on June 17, 1964, soared the plate in the first place and reached the U.S. top ten in the UK a third place. HDH managed with the same concept further four consecutive number - one hit for the Supremes, namely Baby Love ( October 1964, also in GB No. 1) Come See About Me ( November 1964 ), Stop in the Name of Love ( February 1965 ) and Back in My Arms Again ( May 1965 ). All five reached million-seller status. "Actually, even all the great Supremes hits are the children of Where Did Our Love Go", summed up later Lamont Dozier. They all had the same cyclic song structure, 8/8-Takt were with a tambourine - accented coded and were accompanied by a significant bass guitar by James Jamerson.

While published in the July 1965 sequel to Nothing But Heartaches unexpectedly managed only No. 11, were normalized ratios again I Hear a Symphony (1965 No. 1, October). Two other HDH - managed compositions then only the top 10 before the Supremes with four other successively brought out singles again were able to reach the U.S. No. 1: You Can not Hurry Love ( August 1966 ), You Keep Me Hanging On ( October 1966 ), Love Is Here and Now You're Gone ( January 1967 ), and the Happening ( April 1967 ), all published every three months and programmed to short-lived. This HDH reached an unprecedented and as yet repeated record as song writers and the Supremes, a record flood of ten no -one rankings in nearly three years.

Hits for other

HDH were not fixated on the Supremes, as the above catalog might suggest. The male quartet Four Tops, initially just as unsuccessful as the Supremes, was assigned to the romantic Baby I Need Your Loving in July 1964. The song, which only reached # 11 on the charts, differed from the usual performance- Supremes - package from considerably. He was neither intense nor rhythm dominated him the rimshot technique. After two ill -placed singles HDH were also found for the Four Tops their concept. I Can not Help Myself ( Sugar Pie Honey Bunch ) ( April 1965 ) brought it to the million seller, reaching number one and sparked Back in My Arms Again by The Supremes as No. 1 from. After three further HDH songs the Four Tops took over the pioneering Reach Out I'll Be There, again, millions of sellers and transatlantic No. 1 published on 18 August 1966. The emphatic call-and -response technique was accompanied by flutes and live by constant change between major and minor. A similar design was used in further HDH songs for the Four Tops, self-critical in It's the Same Old Song previously satirized (July 1965).

Less successful was the collaboration of HDH with the Temptations or the Miracles. For the Temptations Eddie Holland contributed the text to the song Girl ( Why You Wanna Make Me Blue ) ( August 1964 ), Is not Too Proud to Beg (May 1966) and, with a number 3 the best placement for Eddie Holland, Beauty Is Only skin Deep ( August 1966 ) at.

The process

Tamla Motown was, not least risen through HDH hits, one of the great successful record labels in the United States. HDH knew how other record companies tempered their house producer, and tried to get Berry Gordy to higher payments. Tensions increased and eventually escalated to the court battle. On August 29, 1968, the authors trio of Jobete Music on four million dollars was sued for damages for breach of contract. Ironically, the sellers with high quantity supplied trio is said to have delivered no composition or production more since the end of 1967. Then HDH responded in December 1968 with a countersuit for fraud and fraudulent misrepresentation of 22 million U.S. dollars because Jobete should have after the composer's opinion filed on the said sum not sufficient to account for payable Royaltys. On January 3, 1972, the mutual actions by an out of court settlement - with the mutual duty of confidentiality - resolved.

Separation

Trust between HDH and the Motown group was destroyed as a result. The trio formed in May 1969, the own record label Invictus / Hot Wax Records, for which she won several performers with short-lived publicity. Them banned by court order her previous employer, however, offer still valid during the contract period with the Motown music publishing Jobete their new compositions, another music publisher. In order to avoid this, is to HDH hid behind the pseudonym Edith Wayne.

Approach

For the LP Just Being Myself by Dionne Warwick, published in February 1973, they wrote next to the title song five more pieces. The approach to the Motown group was first provided in 1975, when the Holland brothers Michael Jackson We're Almost There ( January 1975), Take Me Back and Just a Little Bit of You (both mai 1975): enrolled. The trio then produced the last LP of the Jackson Five Moving Violation in August 1975, before the group left Motown Group and switched to Epic Records. The personnel changed Supremes were in the following year two albums produced by the trio, namely, Merry, Scherrie and Susaye ( February 1976 ) and High Energy (June 1976). For standing in the competition Atlantic Records, Aretha Franklin Lamont produced the LP Sweet Passion (May 1977).

Phil Collins brought in November 1982 You Can not Hurry Love the most successful cover version of a HDH songs out because he hereby abolished the top position in the UK and a tenth place in the United States. With Two Hearts Collins wrote with Lamont in November 1988, a typical Motown song, which proved that this style was viable. It was used as a soundtrack for "Buster ," which earned a Grammy Award for best song of the year.

1988 were included in the " Songwriters Hall of Fame". In January 1990, the team HDH was recorded for his services in the "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame". For their work they received in May 2003 by the Broadcast Music Incorporated the title as " icons ".

Hit- statistics

It is beyond the scope of this article to inventory the 266 registered at BMI compositions of the team HDH. Between 1963 and 1968 came 39 of the total of 91 U.S. Top 20 quotes of the Motown group (ie 42%) from the pen of HDH, or at least by a member of this trio. Even more evident from the balance sheet when one examines the 17 top hits of the Group in this period. Of these, even twelve ( or 70 %) for HDH were registered copyright. Overall, they were responsible for 70 Top 10 hits and 50 top hits. Among these top hits, 13 were consecutive top hits. Between 1961 and 1967 they received 24 Songwriter Achievement Awards, awarded by Broadcast Music Incorporated. The otherwise in the publication of figures so restrained Motown Group had during the process disclose that HDH had received 1968 bonuses in the amount of 2.2 million U.S. dollars between January 1965 and June.

Compositions

The Supremes

  • When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes, Motown, 1963
  • Where Did Our Love Go, Motown, 1964
  • Baby Love, Motown, 1964
  • Come See About Me, Motown, 1964
  • Stop! In the Name of Love, Motown, 1965
  • Back in My Arms Again, Motown, 1965
  • Nothing but Heartaches, Motown, 1965
  • I Hear a Symphony, Motown, 1965
  • My World Is Empty Without You, Motown, 1965
  • Love Is Like an Itching in My Heart, Motown, 1966
  • You Can not Hurry Love, Motown, 1966
  • You Keep Me Hangin 'On, Motown, 1966
  • Love Is Here and Now You're Gone, Motown, 1967
  • The Happening, Motown, 1967
  • Reflections, Motown, 1967
  • In and Out of Love, Motown, 1967
  • Forever Came Today, Motown, 1968
  • Supremes LP: Supremes Sing Holland- Dozier -Holland, Motown, 1967

Four Tops

  • Baby I Need Your Loving, Motown, 1964
  • I Can not Help Myself ( Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch ), Motown, 1965
  • It's the Same Old Song, Motown, 1965
  • Something About You, Motown, 1965
  • Shake Me Wake Me ( When It 's Over ), Motown, 1966
  • Reach Out I'll Be There, Motown, 1966
  • Standing in the Shadows of Love, Motown, 1966
  • Bernadette, Motown, 1967
  • 7 Rooms of Gloom, Motown, 1967

Martha & the Vandellas

  • Come and Get These Memories, Gordy, 1963
  • Heatwave, Gordy, 1963
  • Quicksand, Gordy, 1963
  • Livewire, Gordy, 1964
  • In My Lonely Room, Gordy, 1964
  • Nowhere to Run, Gordy, 1965
  • I'm Ready for Love, Gordy, 1966
  • Jimmy Mack, Gordy, 1967

Marvin Gaye

  • Can I Get a Witness, Tamla, 1963
  • You're a Wonderful One, Tamla, 1964
  • How Sweet It Is ( To Be Loved by You), Tamla, 1964
  • Little Darling (I Need You ), Tamla, 1966

Other

  • The Miracles Mickey 's Monkey, Tamla, 1963
  • Kim Weston Take Me in Your Arms ( Rock Me a Little While), Gordy, 1965
  • The Miracles (Come ' Round Here ) I'm the One You Need, Tamla, 1966
  • Isley Brothers: This Old Heart of Mine ( Is Weak for You ), Tamla, 1966

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