The Holland Brothers: How We Wrote Motown's Classics

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Brian and Eddie Holland, who co-wrote Motown hits from "Heat Wave" to "Stop! In the Name of Love" – and authors of a new memoir – share tales from a pop golden age Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone Music Now, we've had some legendary guests on this show, but today I think ranks pretty high. We have with us today Eddie and Brian Holland
0:17.5	who with Lamondosia made up one of the greatest songwriting teams ever to live.
0:23.0	You know them as Holland, Jose Holland.
0:25.2	These two brothers wrote an amazing new book
0:27.6	called Come and Get These Memories
0:29.9	about their days with Motown and a whole lot more.
0:33.7	And I really enjoyed reading it and I learned a lot.
0:36.7	And I don't know if you guys can grasp the extent to,
0:41.1	you know, I'm a little younger younger so these songs were just
0:45.7	graven in stone.
0:47.2	They were always there for me
0:48.6	and to learn the humanity behind the writing of them
0:52.2	was an extraordinary experience.
0:53.8	So I guess I'll start, first of all if you could introduce yourself so our listeners know which
0:58.6	one is which.
1:00.0	Oh, I'm Eddie Holland. I'm Brian Holland.
1:04.0	Welcome again. There's a lot in the fascinating memories of your childhoods and your family
1:10.0	and I'd recommend everyone dig into the book and read about that, but we only have so much time, so I guess I'll jump ahead and just wonder if you could talk about your first encounters with Berry Gordy, which was pretty early on obviously.
1:23.0	Well I met Barry Gordy first.
1:25.0	I was about 18 years old, you know, so that was a few years ago.
1:29.0	And he was, you know, basically a struggling songwriter and wrote some pretty good songs for
1:37.8	you know Jackie Wilson or two or three years and I think he had trouble getting his royalties collected from a New York
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