RECORD WORLD became one of three weekly music trade magazines (Billboard; 1894, Cash Box; 1942, being the other two) when it began its publication in 1946 as Music Vendor. The MV title was changed to Record World, April 1964, and so remained under that banner until it ceased publication, April 1982.
The featured singles and LP’s charts courtesy of Record World, as issued, for this week in January, 1966.
THIS WEEK: #1! The Beatles dominate both the Record World Pop and LP charts
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Three Years in the Making, Holland, Dozier, Holland, Established Top Hit Makers at Motown Records Today
Eddie Holland
The team of Lamont Dozier-Brian and Eddie Holland produced nine releases in 1965 and “8-eight-8,” I said eight of these records, made the Top 10, both pop and R&B.
In the last three years, they have produced (and written) a minimum of “15 fifteen-15 Top 10″ pop and R&B” records. The sales on “I Can’t Help Myself” by the Four Tops are over one million, four hundred thousand; sales on “Where Did Our Love Go” by the Supremes are over one million-two hundred thousand. Berry Gordy himself, who scored in the poll, did one hit on his own last year – “Shotgun.” So now Motown made Brian Holland a Vice President – to me, it’s all three together. I just went out to Detroit and they told me how they do it.
Lamont Dozier
Brian and Lamont sit down at a piano to riffle a taste. They keep thinking and thinking, and reaching and searching for a definite melody line – the “handle.” They usually work together this way for about a half an hour. They will discard quite a few ideas, and then will take out anything that they feel is extraneous.Their goal is always naked simplicity, and when they achieve that, then they strip that down even more, if possible.The basic criterion is always “pleasantness to the ear.” Then they turn the melody and a “working title” over to Holland.Different situations will vary from time to time.
The soul emanates from within them as they write. The soul is the quintessence of all they ever were and are. They draw upon a “Soul Fund” that includes: familiarity with ALL classical and semi-classical music; their cultural heritage as Negroes; and much of the Hebraic-Judaic musical literature.
As children, they sang in church choirs, and thus know almost all the spirituals and work and folk song of their people. They benefited from a cultural enrichment program that has existed in the Detroit school system for years.Their teachers took them to many classical concerts.
Brian Holland
I was reminded of the great autobiographical play by the Welsh actor, Emlyn Williams, “The Corn Is Green,” when Eddie Holland said to me, “Kal, the first time I heard Brahms and Beethoven, I felt as if a giant force had lifted me up from the poverty and misery around me, up a steep wall, until I could see stretching out in front of me an expanse of green grass and a whole new world of beauty.”
They will thrill all their lives to the greatness and genius of these music titans of centuries past. They cannot pinpoint any particular melody of theirs to any one source. However, the emotional mainspring that drives their creativity is evolved from the “most hurtin’, tore-up peoples that the world has ever known.” I asked VP Brian Holland which of their songs move them the most. He told me that he is still moved to tears by: “I Can’t Help Myself”; “Stop In The Name Of Love”; and especially “I Hear A Symphony.”
I asked them who is their favorite writing team. I knew before they answered that they would say “Music by Burt Bacharach and words by Hal David.“
KAL RUDMAN’S ‘MONEY MUSIC‘
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Information, credit and news source: Record World, January 15, 1966
THE MOTOWN HIT MAKERS, 1965: L-R Eddie Holland, Diana Ross, Mary Wilson, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland, and Florence Ballard. Standing: Berry Gordy, Jr. (Click on image 2x for largest detailed PC view, tap and ‘stretch’ across image for digitized Mobile device view)
Above Thursday Radio courtesy freep.com newspapers archives. Copyright 2022; Newspapers.com
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The above featured Detroit radio guide was clipped, saved, and digitally re-imaged from the credited source by Motor City Radio Flashbacks.
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A MCRFB Note: Glancing over the above Detroit radio guide, it bears noting CKLW had Dusty Rhodes competing for the morning drive going against WKNR’s own Dick Purtan. Both Rhodes and Purtan were Cincinnati’s WSAI-AM radio personalities during a time in 1964-1965.
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