Originally Posted by
lockhartgary
I was reading about David Ruffin's 1975 hit, "Walk Away From Love", and the author stated that Van McCoy produced the song and Charles Kipps wrote it and that Suzanne DePasse brokered the production deal. Does anyone know at what point Motown began to even consider or look outside of Motown for writers and producers and what the reasoning was? In the beginning of Motown and for a good while after, didn't they almost exclusively use contracted writers and producers?
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