Canadian recording artist-composer R. Dean Taylor wrote, while with Motown, “Indiana Wants Me.” Taylor’s hit made top 10, late-1970, on the Motown subsidiary label, Rare Earth.
EDDIE HOLLANDcirca 1961EDDIE HOLLAND’S debut Motown LP, 1962BRIAN HOLLAND, LAMONT DOZIER, EDDIE HOLLAND. Best known as the songwriting trio, Holland-Dozier-Holland, at Hitsville, they wrote many of Motown’s biggest hits, early, mid-60s.
A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK! Gladys Knight & The Pips, 1967Released by Motown (SOUL SS 706) in September 1967, “Everybody Needs Love” was the debut album for Gladys Knight & The Pips. The LP featured their million-seller single, “I Heard It Through The Grapevine,” peaked No. 2, December, on the Billboard HOT 100.
A MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: THE TEMPTATIONS, a publicity shot from their early-days, Motown, 1964.(Click on image 2x for largest view).ANOTHER MOTOWN SNAPSHOT FLASHBACK: Those “TEMPTIN’ TEMPTATIONS” performing live onstage at the Upper Deck in Detroit, late-’64.(Click on image for largest view).
