Holland-Dozier-Holland

This was an upbeat song.

It was put out by the iconic powerhouse trio of Holland Dozier Holland and And it actually hit number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, number 17 on the Billboard R&B singles chart.

Also on that same exact day and also produced and written by Holland Dozier, Holland was The Supremes with When the Love Light Starts Shining Through His Eyes.

This particular record has a bit of a history.

The success of this single actually made Motown head Barry Gordy make Holland Dozier Holland the permanent production team for the Supremes.

High honor indeed.

Peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, which was just enough to let Barry Gordy make that decision, I guess.

We're going to leave you today with the music of Eddie Holland, part of the triumvirate of songwriters.

Holland, Dozier, Holland, his brother Brian Holland, and Lamont Dozier, the three of them.

Let me just go through some of the hits that they wrote.

Real quick.

So the immediacy and the closeness of it was so prevalent in my life that that was music to me, was Motown.

Holland, Dozier and Holland, and then the Philadelphia sound a little bit later.

Like that was music to me.

I didn't really understand that there was anything outside of that.

So the Supremes had an album, I'll never forget this, probably 68, I want to say, something around there.

Um, and I remember we were like at a family reunion or something, barbecue thing, and they had this album, this gold album, and it said the Supreme sing Holland Dozier Holland.

Yeah.

And I, and I was hearing the music that was coming off of this album and I just was amazed.

And I said, to my dad, I said, what is Holland Dozier Holland? Cause to me, Holland was a country.

I have no idea.

He said, those are the songwriters.

Yeah, I know it.

It was a Holland Dozier Holland song.

I found out years later that Lamont Dozier was actually singing on the record.

that there's still something about that record that tears me up.

Produced by Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier.

Written by Holland Dozier Holland, as the ones we've talked about so far have been.

so it's the third of that run so yeah like i say we've we've seen the end of bobby vinton's thread we are now on a very much on the supremes are woven through more or less all of the rest of the time we're going to be spending we've got loads more supremes to come oh okay um but yeah like i say this is number three and the main thing here is that oddly they weren't the first to release this as a single, even though it's written and recorded for them, by them and for them.

But it was an album track, a bit like the last one.