How many producers does it take to replace Holland-Dozier-Holland?

[remicks]

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First Supremes LP totally devoid of the HDH team ** :



Love Child
Studio album by Diana Ross & the Supremes

Released November 13, 1968
Recorded February 17 - October 2, 1968


Producers:

Berry Gordy
Frank Wilson
R. Dean Taylor
Deke Richards
Henry Cosby
Smokey Robinson
Nickolas Ashford & Valerie Simpson
Marv Johnson
George Gordy
Harvey Fuqua
Johnny Bristol




Production
credits:

1 *Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson: producers,
"Keep an Eye", "Some Things You'll Never Get Used To", "You Ain't Livin' Until You're Lovin'"

2 * "The Clan" (Berry Gordy, Jr., Frank Wilson, Deke Richards, Henry Cosby, R. Dean Taylor): producers,
"Love Child"

3* Frank Wilson: producer,
"How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone"

4* Frank Wilson, Deke Richards: producers,
"Does Your Mama Know About Me"

5 * Deke Richards: producer,
"Honey Bee (Keep on Stinging Me)"

6 * Smokey Robinson: producer,
"He's My Sunny Boy"

7* George Gordy: producer,
"You've Been So Wonderful to Me"

8 * Harvey Fuqua, Johnny Bristol: producers,
"(Don't Break These) Chains Of Love"

9* Berry Gordy, Jr., producer:
"I'll Set You Free"

10 * Henry Cosby, producer:
"Can't Shake It Loose"


Seems Holland-Dozier-Holland were hardly missed



(** not only are Holland-Dozier-Holland missing this time around ... but so were The Supremes sometimes ... but that's another story )

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info culled from wikipedia

[Mr.Ree]

actually Rems, I own that album, and when I compare the quality of the songs on that album to the quality of the songs on the Supremes albums produced by H-D-H, I missed H-D-H a LOT. The loss of H-D-H opened up opportunities to lots of Motown's less well known producers but it was a matter of quality. Something tells me Berry Gordy either resented or was slightly jealous of H-D-H, I'm suspecting it was possibly jealously since Gordy was a writer and producer himself. And I remember that back in those days it was a bit uncommon for producers to put their names on the FRONT cover of an album but H-D-H sure did it (as did Smokey and Stevie)...but if I were a producer with the kind of gifts H-D-H had, I'd want to be recognized, also.