The Robert West Story
Brian(t) Holland

 
Music from two eras from a member of The Creative Corporation

Brian Holland had only a handful of recordings as a solo artist.

His first was for Kudo under the misspelled(?) name of Briant. Coincidentally the A side "Where's the joy nature boy" was written by the aforementioned Joe Howard. The flip side "Shock" was written by Berry Gordy and Robert Gordy.

Brian would soon find himself working with the newly formed Rayber Voices on Gladstone

When Rayber developed into Tamla and Motown, Brian would join forces with his brother Eddie, and Lamont Dozier, to form one of Popular Music's most successful song writing teams.

Towards the end of the sixties, H-D-H, formed their own label Invictus where Brian had a couple of releases including "I'm so glad".

There were two other releases on the Kudo label during it's short life, by Billy Kope and the Quadrells and Billy Sharp and his Sharptones.

Like all Kudo recordings these records performed at the lower end of the market, but as we have seen, historically the label provided a solid foundation for a number of future VIP's.


acknowledgements : Detroit City Limits Fanzine

Notes thanks to David Meikle
 

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