Motown music still good to listen to.

[Pervert]

Ross was the original diva. All the Whitneys and Mariahs, and even the catwalk queens, took their lead from her.

And I don't mean diva in a good way.

[Guilbert]

>Holland and Dozier

You missed out a Holland, he will be annoyed !!!

In fact they were Holland, Dozier, Holland.

Have to agree, they were one of the GREAT song writing teams, probably writing more hits than Lennon / McCartney AND Jagger / Richards added together.

But as you say, they hardly get a mention.

Songs like Heat Wave, Baby love, Where did our love go, I cant help myself, This old heart of mine, Reach out ill be there, You keep me hanging on, (Im a) Roadrunner and many more

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holland-Dozier-Holland

[Guilbert]

Forgot hyperlink

[jimslip]

Never knew there were 2 Hollands!

[steve56]

Who recalls Barrett Strong? he was with them in the early days

[dynatech]

Barrett Strong formed a great partnership with Norman Whitfield and wrote many classic tunes - indeed, Whitfield/Strong went some way in making H-D-H's sudden departure from Motown less obvious.
At Tamla Motown's peak (roughly 64-67) they had 3 great teams competing with each other for hits - Holland-Dozier-Holland, Whitfield-Strong & Smokey Robinson & friends

[steve56]

Strong wrote Money that was covered by the Beatles/Stones i used to have both versions.

[dynatech]

Barrett Strong was one of the original founder artists of Berry Gordy's Motown empire, before Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Supremes, Temptations etc started rising through the ranks circa 61/62

[steve56]

Around 1968 /records were being reissued incl the 1964 Dancing In The Street think it was Alan Freeman/Tony Blackburn that played it a bit on his shows too that was responsible for it to be a hit in the UK

[dynatech]

Yeah, that was really the start of what became the Northern Soul scene. Motown's best years in the UK were 67-70 when their new product (including the more harder-edged Temptations material) was sharing the charts with stuff from 64, 65, 66 - for instance all the Isley Brothers Motown hits were re-issues