Eddie Holland: A Top 30 Hit With Jamie, Then the Pen Behind 143 Hits

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Edward James Holland Jr. was born in Detroit in October 1939. In 1958 he sang You, You, You, You, You for Mercury Records, a track Berry Gordy co-wrote and produced, and when Gordy launched Motown in 1959 Holland was among its first artists. His 1961 single Jamie reached the U.S. top 30 and No. 6 on the R&B chart, followed by the 1962 album Eddie Holland. Just as his career was taking off, he found he disliked performing and the spotlight, and he gave up singing to focus on writing.

With his younger brother Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier he formed Holland-Dozier-Holland, with Brian and Dozier handling music and production and Eddie writing the lyrics for Martha and the Vandellas, the Supremes, the Four Tops and the Isley Brothers. At Motown he received songwriting credit but no producer credit, which the episode ties to the label's assembly-line division of roles. In 1968 the trio left Motown to found Invictus Records and Hot Wax Records, where Eddie finally shared production credits.

Eddie wrote or co-wrote 143 U.S. chart hits and another 80 in the UK.
With Norman Whitfield he wrote the lyrics for Too Many Fish in the Sea and Beauty Is Only Skin Deep.
Holland-Dozier-Holland entered the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990 with the Ahmet Ertegun Award for non-performers.
In 2009 he wrote songs for a stage musical of The First Wives Club.
His 2019 memoir with Brian and Dave Thompson, Come and Get These Memories, came amid court cases over taxes, loans and publishing in 1985, 1988, 1996, 2017 and 2020.

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