Sugar Daddy - Fleetwood Mac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XcdDnZiQ1k After five years as Fleetwood Mac's "other" singer songwriter behind Bob Welch, Christine...
Mean Old World - Chicken Shack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbrI6fI438k The sad news of the death of Christine McVie nee Perfect interrupts our rounding off of the...
Give Me Just A Little More Time - the Chairmen of the Board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzIAiyxS-nk After 8 years of writing and producing the most successful stream of hit records that's ever...
Contract on Love - Stevie Wonder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJL-s-1ozZU Distractions and, most recently, a fortnight laid up asleep, have meant that I have been...
To Hurt to Cry, Too Much in Love to Say Goodbye - the Darnells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg7G8tM4U9g Holland-Dozier-Holland do Phil Spector. When this came out in October, 1963, it was a brazen...
You Lost the Sweetest Boy - Mary Wells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TkmnDwzG8I In the UK, Mary Wells means just one thing: "My guy". This was her only UK hit, in fact it...
Dearest One - Lamont Dozier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6I9tsCFwhAc The lament for Lamont continues. The songwriting team of the Holland brothers, Brian and...
Gone Gone Get Away - the Romeos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol2Kf8a90YY Lamont Dozier started singing in high school in Detroit with a doo-wop outfit called the...
I've Got a Feeling - Barbara Randolph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV_cs-T2Y-Q The aforementioned (see previous posts) fact that the team of Holland Dozier Holland were the...
I'll Turn to Stone - the Four Tops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF13Bkb14Rg I'm often struck by the serendipitous nature of the Uncle Stylus posts. Just a couple of days...
