Heaven Must Have Sent You: The Holland/Dozier/Holland Story

Product Description
You know their names. But do you know why you know their names? You know them because of songs like "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave," "Where Did Our Love Go," "Baby I Need Your Loving," "Baby Love," "Come See About Me," "Stop! In The Name Of Love," "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)," "Can I Get A Witness," "This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)," "Jimmy Mack"... the list goes on and on. And you know all these songs - and the artists who sang them - thanks to three men: The composer/producer team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Edward Holland, Jr.

From 1963 to 1967, Holland/Dozier/Holland was the chief hitmaking engine of the Motown machine. They departed the company in 1968 to found their own venture, Invictus/Hot Wax, which launched the careers of The Chairmen Of The Board and Freda Payne (among others), and composer/ producer/band leader McKinley Jackson. In the mid '70s, they returned to the Motown fold and delivered hits for the Jackson 5, The Supremes, Eddie Kendricks and The Originals.

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Average customer rating: THE CREAM OF THE CROP!!!!!!!!!! Where is The Honey Cone? Isn't this another way For Motown to Cash in The HDH Story- Versus-The Motown Box A good introduction to Motown's best... for Mono single fans

Heaven Must Have Sent You: The Holland/Dozier/Holland Story Holland/Dozier/Holland Manufacturer: Hip-O Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | R&B | Styles | Music Motown | R&B | Styles | Music General | Soul | R&B | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Motown Box Cellarful of Motown!, Vol. 2 Hard to Find 45's on CD: Sweet Soul Sounds One Kiss Can Lead to Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost and Found The Definitive Performances 1963-1987 ASIN: B0009S2TIY Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

1. Eddie Holland- Jamie
2. The Marvelettes- Locking Up My Heart
3. Martha & The Vandellas- (Love Is Like A) Heat Wave
4. The Miracles- Mickey's Monkey
5. Mary Wells- You Lost The Sweetest Boy
6. Marvin Gaye- Can I Get A Witness
7. The Miracles- I Gotta Dance To Keep From Crying
8. Martha & The Vandellas- Quicksand
9. Eddie Holland- Leaving Here
10. Martha & The Vandellas- In My Lonely Room
11. Dusty Springfield- When The Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes
12. Eddie Holland- Just Ain't Enough Love [first time on CD]
13. The Supremes- Where Did Our Love Go
14. Four Tops- Baby I Need Your Loving
15. Eddie Holland- Candy To Me [first time on CD]
16. Marvin Gaye- Baby Don't You Do It
17. The Supremes- Baby Love
18. The Supremes- Come See About Me
19. Marvin Gaye- How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
20. Martha & The Vandellas- Nowhere To Run
21. The Supremes- Stop! In The Name Of Love
22. The Supremes- Back In My Arms Again
23. Four Tops- I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)
24. Four Tops- It's The Same Old Song
25. Kim Weston- Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me A Little While)
26. The Supremes- I Hear A Symphony

Tracks:

1. The Supremes- My World Is Empty Without You
2. The Elgins- Darling Baby
3. The Isley Brothers- This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)
4. Kim Weston- Helpless
5. Jr. Walker & The All Stars- (I'm A) Road Runner
6. The Supremes- Love Is Like An Itching In My Heart
7. Chris Clark- Love's Gone Bad
8. The Supremes- You Can't Hurry Love
9. Four Tops- Reach Out I'll Be There
10. The Elgins- Heaven Must Have Sent You
11. M artha & The Vandellas- I'm Ready For Love
12. The Supremes- You Keep Me Hangin' On
13. Smokey Robinson & Miracles- (Come 'Round Here) I'm The One You Need
14. Four Tops- Standing In The Shadows Of Love
15. The Supremes- Love Is Here And Now You're Gone
16. Martha & The Vandellas- Jimmy Mack
17. Four Tops- Bernadette
18. The Supremes- Reflections
19. The Chairmen of the Board- Give Me Just A Little More Time
20. Freda Payne- Band of Gold
21. Flaming Ember- Westbound No. 9
22. The Politicians featuring McKinley Jackson- Free Your Mind
23. The Band- Don't Do It

Tracks:

1. Holland-Dozier featuring Brian Holland- Don't Leave Me Starvin' For Your Love
2. Holland-Dozier featuring Lamont Dozier- Why Can't We Be Lovers
3. Holland-Dozier featuring Eddie & Brian Holland- Where Did We Go Wrong
4. Lamont Dozier- Out Here On My Own
5. Lamont Dozier- Trying to Hold On To My Woman
6. Lamont Dozier- Fish Ain't Bitin'
7. Michael Jackson- Just a Little Bit of You
8. The Originals- Good Lovin' Is Just A Dime Away
9. Jackson 5- Forever Came Today
10. Eddie Kendricks- Get The Cream Off the Top
11. The Supremes- I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking
12. Shalamar Uptown Festival - Pt. I
13. Lamont Dozier- Going Back To My Roots
14. The Doobie Brothers- Little Darling (I Need You)
15. Lamont Dozier- My World Is Empty

Album Description

You know their names. But do you know why you know their names? You know them because of songs like "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave," "Where Did Our Love Go," "Baby I Need Your Loving," "Baby Love," "Come See About Me," "Stop! In The Name Of Love," "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch)," "Can I Get A Witness," "This Old Heart Of Mine (Is Weak For You)," "Jimmy Mack"... the list goes on and on. And you know all these songs - and the artists who sang them - thanks to three men: The composer/producer team of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Edward Holland, Jr.

From 1963 to 1967, Holland/Dozier/Holland was the chief hitmaking engine of the Motown machine. They departed the company in 1968 to found their own venture, Invictus/Hot Wax, which launched the careers of The Chairmen Of The Board and Freda Payne (among others), and composer/ producer/band leader McKinley Jackson. In the mid '70s, they returned to the Motown fold and delivered hits for the Jackson 5, The Supremes, Eddie Kendricks and The Originals.

Customer Reviews:

THE CREAM OF THE CROP!!!!!!!!!!.......2007-02-14

The finest pop songwriters get a piece of their due with this three disc set. There were no finer writers than HDH during the second half of the twentieth century and this set is testimony to that. Sadly, most of these songs are available elsewhere and avid Motown fans will find this redundant. Great mono versions of a good chunk of their biggest hits but a second volume is called for with more of the post Motown output and a deeper look into the vaults for demos of some of the literally hundreds of top shelf songs these guys wrote. How did they do it? Don't have a clue but I sure do love these songs...

Where is The Honey Cone?.......2005-12-24

I give the music 5 stars, but I find this set to be woefully incomplete, giving short shrift to H-D-H's OWN Hot Wax & Invictus labels!

WHERE IS THE HONEY CONE? Hello..."Want Ads" was one of the biggest Pop & Soul #1's that H-D-H ever wrote and produced! Not to mention all of this fine girl group's other sassy, sexy, soulful Hot 100 hits!

There is just sooooo much missing. What about 80s hit covers of 60s H-D-H? Not that they topped the original artists' versions, but they introduced H-D-H to a whole new generation, most notably, "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by Kim Wylde.

Another missing gem is Phil Collin's 1988 #1 smash "Two Hearts", co-written by Phil with LAMONT DOZIER!

All in all, this is a disappointing track selection. I understand the limits of contracts with several labels, but more of an effort needed to be made at a cross-label retrospective that focused MUCH MORE on H-D-H's own Hot Wax/Invictus catalogue, and covers from the 80s and 90s ought to have been sought out for inclusion to bridge the time gap and show their continued relevance.

And lastly...why was EVERY #1 hit by (Diana Ross &) The Supremes included? Good grief, leave consumers a reason to purchase "The No. 1's" by DRS!

Isn't this another way For Motown to Cash in.......2005-10-08

I was a little disappointed to receive this as a gift, then again I basically have every song issued on this 3 box set either from other Motown comps, or individual reissues on Artists on CD. I thought it would have been greater if They had expanded this beyond a 3 box set because haven't we all seen the 10 ten hits 25 times over in the last 40+ years, and then the second round on 2nd tier Hot 100 and certain Non-charters are also well documented. It would have been better to see Album tracks and great B-Sides up there too, I know Holland Dozier Holland wrote some of the greatest hit songs of the 60's and early 70's but it would have been nice to expan beyond the obvious singles that most of us already know, and pull some intriguing items from old albums, reissues and unreleased Material. To me it's uncomplete when "Any Girl In Love" (The Supremes & Kim Weston) "I Hope You Had Better Luck Than I Did" (Marvelettes and Martha & The Vandellas) "Call on Me" (The Four Tops) or "Wheels of The City" (Barbara McNair & The Supremes) aren't among songs include....this is yet another Motown cash cow....

The HDH Story- Versus-The Motown Box.......2005-10-03

Motown's composing team Holland/Dozier/Holland,AKA H/D/H, is being saluted in two boxed sets. For the avid H/D/H fan, there's the three CD set "The Holland/Dozier/Holland Story," the first set to include their work as early Motown recording artists,as Motown staff writers/producers and their work as record moguls at Invictus Records. For that, this is a must buy for the collector.This compilaton does not include all their Motown hits and are in mono, except "Reflections," and the Invictus hits. For the audiophile, twenty two of the same songs, and seven excluded from the HDH story, can be found on the Motown Box set, in stereo. Buy both!

A good introduction to Motown's best... for Mono single fans.......2005-10-01

The careers of Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland, Jr. are the stuff of legend, resulting in well over 100 hits ranging over the four-decade span from 1962 to well into the 1990s. HDH helped shaped and molded the sound that put Detroit's Motown label on the map, and a multi-label salute to their work is long overdue. "Heaven Must Have Sent You: The Holland/Dozier/Holland Story" is a brand-new set from Universal's Hip-O reissue division, and it's a deluxe package in a fold-out cardboard "Eco-Pack" (which will undoubtedly frustrate standard jewel-box collectors).

Just trying to choose "only" four hours of material to represent HDH's career, spread out over three jam-packed CDs, must have been a daunting task for compilation producer Dana Smart (advised by Holland-Dozier-Holland themselves). You'll find both major #1 smashes as well as more-obscure singles, B-sides, and album tracks, along with a few bona fide rarities, like Dusty Springfield's non-charting "When the Lovelight Starts Shining Through His Eyes" and HDH's own "Where Did We Go Wrong." (How a Warner Bros. track like the Doobies' hit wound up on here must be a miracle of contractural negotation.) HDH are represented here not only as producers & songwriters, but also as performers, showcasing half-a-dozen of their own hits (few of which did as well as the songs they wrote and produced for others). This compilation also has several tracks not found on any other CDs (to my knowledge, anyway), including Lamont Dozier's excellent 1973 anti-war song "Fish Ain't Bitin'," as well as the rarely-heard long album version of "Trying to Hold On to My Woman." (The single version is preferable to me, and is arguably the best of their own solo hits.)

But how does the compilation sound? Well, first up, the good news: engineer Gavin Lurssen at LA's Mastering Lab (with Suha Gur and Kevin Reeves on the analog tape transfers) did an exceptional job, with every track sounding as good (or better) than it ever has. I thought in particular the bass sounded a little bit less "bloated" than it often does on a lot of Motown-era hits, save for The Supremes' "My World Is Empty without You," which pretty much has that characteristic sound imbedded in the original track. Kim Weston's "Helpless" sounded particularly clean, as did "(I'm a) Road Runner" and "You Can't Hurry Love," both of which have sounded very murky in the past. I noted both tracks present the full-length single versions, unlike the slightly-shorter versions that wound up on most earlier CDs.

But the bad news is: if you're a stereo fan, stay far, far away. More than 2/3 of this set is all mono, albeit the correct hit single versions originally issued on 45RPM records. Some of the mono versions are fairly rare, like "Give Me Just a Little More Time" and "Band of Gold," which I can't recall ever hearing in mono on a CD, so completists might want this set for that reason alone. Still, it's a bit of a disappointment.

The liner notes are a little lacking as well, providing an overall biographical profile, rather than an in-depth song-by-song story of how each was written and produced. The notes refer only obliquely to the acrimonious split between H-D-H and the Motown label over profits around 1967, but provides virtually no details. (Those lawsuits were still pending as of the late 1990s, and as far as I know, they have yet to be settled). The notes also refer to a split between Dozier and the Holland brothers in the early-1970s, which explains why the Invictus/Hot Wax label hits fizzled out so quickly, right around 1973. Regardless, the songs on this collection are a formidable powerhouse of some of the most memorable soul classics of that era, and are a reminder as to the importance of Holland-Dozier-Holland in pop music history.

I found this to be an unusual group of both over-exposed hits as well as bona fide obscurities, some of which deserved much better chart success. In particular, I thought The Originals' "Good Lovin' Is Just A Dime Away" (written and produced by Lamont Dozier for Motown in 1975), should have at least made the top 100, if not the Top 10 on the R&B charts; maybe radio programming execs were put off by the brief retro "vo-do-o-do's" in the intro.

Since this 3-disc set is budget-priced at under $35, I'd recommend it with some reservations, for those looking for the handful of rarities plus the particularly clean-sounding mono tracks. But stereo fans should look elsewhere.

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