Brian HOLLAND-Lamont DOZIER-Eddie HOLLAND, Jr.--writers of many top hits for the Supremes, Four Tops, and Martha and the Vandellas, as well as numbers for Marvin Gaye ("How Sweet It Is"), and the Miracles ("Mickey's Monkey"). Eddie co-wrote w/Norman Whitfield for the Temptations ("Ain't Too Proud to Beg", "Beauty is Only Skin Deep"), while Brian co-wrote the Marvelettes #1 hit "Please Mr. Postman".
William (Smokey) ROBINSON--writer of the majority of hits for his own group, the Miracles, as well as the Temptations ("The Way You Do the Things You Do", "My Girl", "Get Ready"), Mary Wells ("My Guy"), the Marvelettes ("Don't Mess with Bill"), and Marvin Gaye ("I'll Be Doggone", "Ain't That Peculiar"). Later a Motown vice-president.
Norman WHITFIELD--writer of hits for Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight and the Pips (both had hits with "I Heard It through the Grapevine"), Edwin Starr ("War"), and most of all, the Temptations ("Ain't Too Proud to Beg", "I Wish It Would Rain", "I Can't Get Next to You", "Just My Imagination"). Chief songwriting partner was Barrett ("Money") Strong; ushered in psychedelic soul-era at Motown w/ "Cloud Nine".
Nick ASHFORD-Valerie SIMPSON--writer of Marvin Gaye-Tammi Terrell duets ("Ain't No Mountain High Enough" [whcih became a #1 hit for Diana Ross in 1970], "Your Precious Love", "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing", "You're All I Need to Get by"). Later wrote for Chaka Khan ("I'm Every Woman", which became a later hit for Whitney Houston) and themselves ("Solid", a top 20 hit in 1984).
Berry GORDY, Jr.--founder of Motown empire; writer of many early Motown hits, including Barrett Strong's "Money"; formed the "Corporation" w/Deke Richards, Alphonso Mizell, and Freddie Perren, who would pen three #1 singles for the Jackson 5 ("I Want You Back", "ABC", "The Love You Save").
William (Mickey) STEVENSON--writer of some early Marvin Gaye hits ("Stubborn Kind of Fellow", "Pride and Joy"); co-writer of Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street" with Gaye and Ivy Jo Hunter, with whom he sometimes collaborated. Responsible for co-producing Jimmy Ruffin's smash "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted".
Ivy Jo HUNTER--Sometimes collaborated w/Mickey Stevenson; wrote for the Four Tops ("Ask the Lonely", "Loving You is Sweeter than Ever"), Marvin Gaye ("You), and Martha and the Vandellas ("Dancing in the Street").
Clarence PAUL and Henry COSBY--both worked with "Little" Stevie Wonder in the sixties, both co-wrote #1 hit "Fingertips--Part 2". Paul also worked with Marvin Gaye, while Cosby, a session saxophonist, also teamed with Diana Ross and the Supremes ("Love Child") and Smokey Robinson and the Miracles ("The Tears of a Clown").
Johhny BRISTOL and Harvey FUQUA--co-wrote Diana Ross and the Supremes' "Someday We'll Be Together", as well as hits for Edwin Starr ("Twenty-Five Miles"), and Jr. Walker and the All-Stars ("What Does It Take"); produced Gaye and Terrell's "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Your Precious Love".
Sylvia MOY--co-wrote mid- to late-'60s hits with and for Stevie Wonder, as well as w/Mickey Stevenson ("It Takes Two").
Frank WILSON--co-writer of Supremes' hit "Stoned Love", also wrote for Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Four Tops ("Still Water"), and the Temptations ("All I Need").
Pam SAWYER--co-wrote "Love Child", as well as Gladys Knight and the Pips' "If I Were Your Woman".
Ron MILLER--co writer of "For Once in My Life", "A Place in the Sun", "Yester-Me. Yester-You, Yesterday", and "Touch Me in the Morning".
The "Funk Brothers"
Motown's Hall of Famers